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France. Flanders (and Belgium as a whole) saw some of the greatest loss of life, in particular from the three battles of Ypres. Due to the hundreds of thousands of casualties at Ypres, the poppies that sprang up from the battlefield afterwards, have become a symbol for lives lost in war.

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