sighted along a busy road in Flanders and sheltered by tall trees lies what was once

one of the largest British cemeteries from the Great War. Here men were not killed in battle,

but they died of their wounds. This was Lyssenhohook We find ourselves once more in Flanders this week

Not on the actual battlefields themselves

But behind the lines close to the town of Popperinger

Popperinger for most of the Great War

Was the British base in Flanders The troops that went to and from the front line passed through there. Bullets, bombs and bully beef all passed through, the supplies, the material that was needed to continue the fights in the battlefields around Eap will pass through this area.

It was an important cog in the wheel of the British Army, the British Expeditionary Force here

on the Western Front.

But we're not in the town itself.

We're on the outskirts just off of the modern ring road that goes around the town of Popperinger.

And the road, the N38, that runs from that ring road across to the French border,

we're just north-west of that on a little track, a cycle and walking track,

that comes from the centre of the town running parallel to this modern fast road

and heading out into the countryside beyond.

From here we can look back towards the town

and we can see the spires of Popperinger.

Behind the lines it was shield

and it was bombed from the air at different points during the war

but the bulk of its buildings are original

that were there over 100 years ago

during those fateful years of 1914-18

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