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  • Day 45–46

    Days 42 and 43

    October 2, 2023 in Belgium ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    Day 42 was meant to be utopia for John who found a sports bar to watch the rugby league grand final live. He then went to the Prix de l'arc de Triomphe (Melbourne Cup of Europe). At least the races part was good !!
    Photos 1 - 3- sports bar and races
    Video 1 - race crowd do the Viking clap like the Canberra raiders

    Day 43
    Photo 4 - Adelaide Cemetary outside Villers Bretonneux. An unknown soldier has been removed from this cemetary and placed in Canberra

    Photos 5, - 7with our guide at the John Monash Centre - a museum and interpretative centre that commemorates Australian servicemen and women who served on the Western Front during the first world war
    Photo 8 - battlefields and war cemetaries visited today
    Photo 9 - Memorial to women at the Lochnagar Crater
    Video 2 - Lochnagar Crater (tunnel dug under major German command centre in order to blow it up)
    Photo 10 - memorial to all animals used in the war effort - horses, mules, dogs and pigeons
    Photo 11 - Pheasant Wood cemetary at Fromelles - newest war
    cemetary created following the discovery of 6 mass graves in 2008
    Photo 12 - VC Corner Australian Cemetary - the only cemetary that has just Australian soldiers (known and unknown)
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