Ypres unexploded shells still an issue...

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22-03-14, 17:24

Jon Skagfeld Jon Skagfeld is offline

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Originally Posted by Gordon Yeo

I've been into the WW1 battle fields several times and unexploded ordinance is very easy to find, picture below is what we found in a potato field in 2009. In 2007 we found an unexploded shell that was just turned up by a farmer when he ploughed the field.

I'll be in Ypres in August this year as part of a battlefield tour.

I'll watch my step and not stray from the beaten path!

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