The Ypres Salient. Belgium. Tyne Cot Cemetery. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
The Ypres Salient. Belgium. Tyne Cot Cemetery. / amandabhslater
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Tyne Cot CemeteryThe name is said to have been given by men of the Northumberland Fusiliers who fought here in 1917 and who saw a similarity between a nearby ruined barn and cottages in Tyneside. A cluster of five German Pill boxes stood here, just below the crest of the Passchendaele ridge. In front of the pill boxes was a low lying area that contained some of the worst and deepest mud in the salient. The position fell to Australian troops on 4th October 1917. As the fighting moved towards Passchendaele village the pill boxes were used as advanced dressing stations, and it was around these that the original battlefield cemetery of 300 burials grew.Tyne Cot is the largest British military cemetery in the world with 11,956 burials, over 70% of the graves are unidentified. At the rear is the Memorial Wall to the Missing, bearing the names of 34,888 missing. The central pill box was incorporated into the Cross of Sacrifice at the suggestion of King George V in 1920. |
| 撮影日 | 2010-10-12 10:12:38 |
| 撮影者 | amandabhslater , Coventry, West Midlands, UK |
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| 撮影地 | Passendale, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique 地図 |
| カメラ | u1060,S1060 , OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. |
| 露出 | 0.004 sec (1/250) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.5 |