Essex Farm Cemetery

A somber place to visit

This is exactly how I would have expected to find this place, a very somber, thought provoking place. I came here near the end of a trip around Europe with my two teenage sons, who both have an intere...

The Poppies Blow

Commemorates the Essex Regiment. There are 1,204 dead commemorated, of which 104 are unidentified. A VC winner is also buried here. This is where John McCrae penned the “In Flanders Field” poem.

Essex Farm

One of the many immaculately maintained war grave cemeteries. This was originally an aid station with bunkers still in place. Also, where John McCrae wrote the poem in Flanders Fields and also has the...

A must see

The famous poem In Flanders Fields was penned here by a Canadian doctor, Major, later Lt. Colonel, John McCrae when he was based at an Advanced Dressing Station.

A lovely cemetery next to a canal.

This cemetery for the West Riding Division and is well laid out and next to a fist aid bunkers which Dr John McCrae site.