Work is well underway for The Memorial Garden Flanders Fields 1914-2014 which will open in November 2014, at Wellington Barracks in London. The garden will honour all those who gave their lives in the Great War, and is a gesture of thanks to the British people for their sacrifices in liberating Belgium. The garden will feature soil specially collected from the Flanders Fields battlefields during a ceremony of remembrance. On Armistice Day this year the Household Division will be in Belgium to collect sacred soil gathered from the battlefields of Flanders where so many lost their lives. The soil will be placed in named and numbered sandbags, reminiscent of those that lined every FWW trench, onto the funeral gun carriage of F Troop Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery in a special ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres. It will then be brought to London with all due ceremony, to be finally placed at the heart of the new garden. The garden is an initiative of the Guards Museum, and is supported by Flanders House in London. It has been designed by internationally acclaimed landscape architect Piet Blanckaert from Bruges, Belgium. To support the garden, please visit their website: memorial2014/en/support
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:52:38 +0000
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