Soil gathered from the battlefields of Flanders is set to arrive in London this weekend as the world gets ready to commemorate one hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War.
The historic cargo will arrive on the Belgian Navy frigate Louise Marie, mooring alongside HMS Belfast in the Thames.
This Saturday (30 November) a military led procession will begin from HMS Belfast, through London, on route to The Guards Museum in , where it will be used to form a new 'Flanders Fields 1914-2014' memorial garden.
At the procession will be the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery, escorted by the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment.
The soil has been collected from the cemeteries of the First World War battlefields of Flanders by one thousand children.
The Memorial Garden has been designed by Belgian landscape architect Piet Blanckaert.
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