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In pictures: Belgian Frigate arrives in London with WWI soil

 

Iwona Karbowska
Friday 29 November 2013 17:37 GMT
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The 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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