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One hundred years on, World War I resonates across Belgium in countless monuments and cemeteries along with relics of long-abandoned bunkers and trenches that dot the landscape.
These relics are a constant reminder of what happened on Flanders Fields 100 years ago when life was about trenches, the protection of a bunker, a muddy battlefield and destroyed villages.
The setting sun creates long shadows in front of the graves at Sanctuary Wood Military Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium. Monday marks the 100th anniversary of Great Britain declaring war on Germany.
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PHOTOS: A landscape shaped by World War I
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A simple wooden memorial cross marks the field outside Ploegsteert Wood, Flanders, where British and German soldiers played football during the World War One Christmas Day truce in 1914.
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PHOTOS: A landscape shaped by World War I
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The setting sun illuminates the sculpture of the ‘Brooding Soldier’ and creates a rainbow. The monument commemorates the Canadian First Division’s participation in the Second Battle of Ypres of World War I.
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PHOTOS: A landscape shaped by World War I
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The sun falls on the names of missing soldiers at the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing.
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PHOTOS: A landscape shaped by World War I
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The sun is reflected off grave stones at the German Langemark military cemetery in Poelkapelle, Belgium.
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PHOTOS: A landscape shaped by World War I
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Rifle House Cemetery containing mainly Australian soldiers nestles inside Ploegsteert Wood.
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