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30-APR-2013 © Chris Gibbins

Hill 62, Ypres

Hill 62 Sanctuary Wood Museum.
After the First World War, a farmer returned to reclaim the land near Ypres that he had left in 1914. A section of the original wood
and the trenches in it were cleared of debris and casualties, but he left a section of the British trenches as he found them.
The site is now one of the few places on the Ypres battlefields where the original trench layout can be seen, and are part of the
Sanctuary Wood Museum, near Hill 62, where the Canadian Memorial commemorates the heavy losses in the defence of Ypres in 1916.
The museum is privately owned by the grandson of the farmer who reclaimed the land in 1919 when the local people returned.


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