Visiting Ypres last month, the list of places to be visited included Artillery Wood cemetery.
It is a location that blends into the agricultural land around. Down a side road, it is a place of tranquility. There is nothing to disturb the wandering among the lines of white headstones.
Ledwidge and Evans lie near each other: Francis Ledwidge, a labourer from Co Meath, and Humprey Ellis Evans “Hedd Wyn” (Blessed Peace), a farmer’s son from Merionydd.
On 31st July 1917, Ledwidge was one of a group of men detailed to …
