Male Voice Choir's tour of remembrance in Belgium

The choir were based in Ghent during the tour, giving a concert at St. Salvator Cathedral in Bruges on their first day.

Dr Ben Hughes had a brilliant reception from the concert audience, when he sang two beautiful solos, The Holy City and Time To Say Goodbye. Haydn Davies and William Miles sang the duet Panis Angelicus, which was also well received.

The choir paid a visit to the war graves in and around Ypres, and were given a guided tour.

They sang a few hymns at Menin Gate to pay their respects, and later visited Essex Farm where John Mc Crae wrote In Flanders Fields.

The choir paid their respects at the Welsh Memorial near Pilkem Ridge, also close to the site of the death of Ellis Humphrey Evans (better known by his bardic name Hedd Wynn), a Welsh poet who won the Eisteddfod chair in 1917.

At the grave of Hedd Wyn two of the choirs choristers brothers Alun and Ron Thomas sang Yr Arwr, the poem that won him the chair at the Eisteddfod.

At the site of Hedd Wyn's death, the choir chairman laid a wreath, and all sand Gwahoddiad and the Welsh National Anthem.

Tyne Cottage memorial, which is the largest War grave cemetery in the world, was the last to be visited.

During the tour Martyn Jones did a brilliant job as musical director, as did their accompanist Peter Griffiths.