series of miniature Zeebrugge Moles standing in seas of slimy mud, to sink into which from the narrow built paths of trench-boards was to perish. Of the nine thousand British soldiers buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, over six thousand are “unknown.” The hateful mud swallowed up their identity with their lives.

Many places on the long trench line which stretched like a dreadful scar across Belgium and France the King knew during the days of the war. Very jealously the secrets of his visits to the Front had to be guarded then, especially when both the King and the Heir Apparent were at the same time in the battle-line; and no public record exists of them. But it is safe to say that Tyne Cot he saw for the first time this May afternoon. He understood how appalling was the task which his soldiers faced there, and, turning to the great “pill box” which still stands in the middle of the cemetery, he said that it should never be moved, should remain always as a monument to the heroes whose graves stood thickly around. From its roof he gazed sadly over the sea of wooden crosses, a “massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.” It is indeed fitting that this should form, as it will, the foundation for the great Cross of Sacrifice shortly to be built up as a central memorial in this cemetery.

ZEEBRUGGE

ARRIVAL AT THE MOLE

ZEEBRUGGE

INSPECTING THE MOLE

ZEEBRUGGE

AT THE BREACH IN THE MOLE

ZEEBRUGGE CHURCHYARD

INSPECTING BRITISH GRAVES

AT BRANDHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY.

TYNE COT CEMETERY

THE KING AND THE GARDENERS

TYNE COT CEMETERY

TYNE COT CEMETERY

THE KING READING INSCRIPTIONS ON WOODEN CROSSES