I visited Vimy Ridge a couple of years ago, the monument there is quite breath taking, makes the hairs stand up on my neck thinking about it now. Part of the battle field is preserved but it is difficult to distinguish trenches from shell holes.

After our visit we came across a German cemetery on the road to Arras, we stopped I suppose out of curiosity, two things have stuck with me one was on approaching the crosses it became apparent that there were names on each arm of the cross, and then also on the reveres so four soldiers to each grave, the other thing was the number of crosses that also displayed the star of David, ironic to think that twenty years later people that had fought together would then become enemies.

‘At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them’

Mark.