Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest British military cemetery in continental Europe. More than 10,000 soldiers who died at the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 during the First World War were buried in the monumental cemetery in Passchendaele.
The Irish Peace Park in Belgium is next to the Battle of Messines, which started on June 7, 1917.
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