Further
to the right is Sanctuary Wood, and here is a museum. Sanctuary Wood received
this name in the first year of the war, because this area was under the
command of a General who offered "sanctuary" to stragglers until
they could rejoin their own units.
On Friday 13th November 1914 the Guards reported entering a "wood,
south of Hooge, known as Sanctuary Wood, as it had so far not been shelled."
The following day, however, the shelling started. And by October 1917 an Officer wrote in his diary
"Of the terrible and horrible scenes I have seen in the war, Sanctuary Wood is the worst.... Sanctuary Wood in 1914 was a sanctuary, but today - Dante in his wildest imaginings never conceived a like."