Flanders Cemeteries Being Repaired as Centennial of World War I Approaches

From the April 22, 2013, Huff Post : "WWI Centenary: Flanders Rushes To Repair Cemeteries Ahead Of Anniversary" by Don Melvin.

The Tyne Cot Cemetery in Zonnebeke, Belgium, has nearly 12,000 headstones and is where some of the war's worst carnage occurred.  But, nearly 100 years of weather has worn the surfaces so that names are hard to read and many of them are out of alignment.  Workers are using diamond drill bits to re-engrave the stones.

About 2,000 headstones will be replaced, landscaping renewed and trimmed.

Some of the gravestones are for unknowns, others have inscriptions like: "William John Dominey, 21st Bn, Canadian Infantry, 3rd/4th November 1917, Age 18."

The stone walls  at the top of the cemetery has the names of 35,000 British servicemen declared missing after  August 15, 1917.

The Right Thing to Do.