As part of the World War I centenary in 2014, people from Britain are being asked to join a project to mark the original Front Line with a row of flaming torches.
The “Light Front ’14” project launched at London’s World Travel Market is looking for 8,750 participants to stand along the 87.5 kilometres of the original Front Line next October, one person every 100 meters.
During the days before war broke out in earnest, troops from both sides could see each other’s lights along the front, a last moment of peace before a war that saw bloody fighting until 1918.
Names of the 600,000 casualties on Belgian soil during the four years of war will be projected at the same time onto three monuments.
Victims of the conflict will be remembered at the Albert I Memorial in Niewupoort, near the start of the line, the Yser Tower in Diksmuide, a town destroyed in the subsequent fighting, and the Belfry in Ypres, centrepiece of the refurbished in Flanders Fields Museum.
The event will end with a live concert in Ostend featuring a new work by famous Belgian musician Arno.
