Sanctuary Wood

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Sanctuary Wood was so named because the soldiers could rest here from the fierce fighting in and around Ypres in 1914. It formed the central point in the Ypres Salient. Afterwards there was heavy fighting in and around the forest because this hill was a strategic place.

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