In pictures: Belgian Frigate arrives in London with WWI soil
In pictures: Belgian Frigate arrives in London with WWI soil
Show all 7The Belgian frigate has transported its cargo of sacred soil from the cemeteries of WWI battlefields in Flanders to London for use in a new Flanders Fields Memorial Garden at Wellington Barracks.
As a special gesture to its arrival in the UK the Tower Bridge was raised fully in compliment.
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