Beneath the dark trees of Polygon woods near Eapr, smash concrete and undulating ground

testifies to the four years of fighting that took place here during the Great War. In its far corner

the Black Watch made their stand in 1914 and beyond in a river valley, what did the veterans

who fought through that hellish nightmare of 1917 make of their experiences along

the Reital Beak?

We've returned to Flanders this week, and we're walking down an almost straight road from the village of Zonabique

towards the tip of an area of large woodlands just beyond that village.

When we walk ground like this, around the city of Eap, and we look into these fields,

it's a complex battlefield in many ways because every field

tells almost every year of the four years of war that took place here between 1914 and

1918. So there's often a lot to take in. In that area of woodland ahead of us, the dark

trees of what is polygon wood is very typical of that

experience on battlefields like this so during the course of this week's walk we're going to take in

many aspects of the four years of conflict in flanders during the great war and we'll follow that road

as it bends round and reaches that tip of polygon wood.

Some of the trees here have been cleared and we can see a large monument which will come to shortly.

But we'll walk a little further down this road and on our right is the entrance to the first

of the military cemeteries that we'll see on this walk, Polygon Wood Cemetery.

The original cemetery register for this cemetery says that it's an irregular frontline cemetery

and it's not just irregular in terms of the scattered nature of the burials that is in it,

but the shape of the actual cemetery, if you stand back a little bit and look,

you can see that the walls of the cemetery are a polygon shape to reflect the shape of the actual cemetery, if you stand back a little bit and look, you can see that the walls of the cemetery are a polygon shape

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