Here's a brief cut and pasted piece on this place: "Polygon Wood is a large wood 1.6 kilometres south of the village of Zonnebeke which was completely devastated in the First World War. The wood was cleared by Commonwealth troops at the end of October 1914, given up on 3 May 1915, taken again at the end of September 1917 by Australian troops, evacuated in the Battles of the Lys, and finally retaken by the 9th (Scottish) Division on 28 September 1918". It is a moving place, not least because of that dreadful sense of loss of young life in a way which seems now almost unfathomable. We were especially moved by the notion of thousands of young Australians travelling 12,000 miles just to die fighting over a piece of nondescript and foreign land.