Their Name Liveth For Evermore

On this adventure we have seen many, many graves, but truly nothing can prepare you for the scale of Tyne Cot. Within this massive cemetery, the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the world, are buried more soldiers than there are people living in Gander, NL! 11,965 soldiers lay here in the endless rows of graves…

Despite the enormity of the cemetery, if every single soldier lost in the first World War were to be buried in the same graveyard, the cemetery would have to be 811 times larger than Tyne Cot… imagine… this epic memorial represents just 0.1% of total soldiers lost to the war…

As you can see from the expressions on our faces… this fact was not lost to the youth…

We were all pretty quiet as we left Tyne Cot, but there was a moment of levity on the way out. You see, quite a few youth were in need of a bathroom break (the bathroom on the bus has become inaccessible days ago – another story, lol!), but it turns out the bathroom was coin operated. You needed to insert Euros in order for the turn-style to move and let you in… well seeing as we were collectively short on change, we got to play a game involving how many Scouts can you cram into a turn-style at once, lol! Turns out… quite a few 😉


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