In May 2007, six reservists from Northwood’s Royal Naval Reserve unit, HMS WILDFIRE, participated in the 36th '100 km van Ieper' march. The three-day walking battlefield tour around the Belgian peace town of Ieper attracts service personnel from all over the world, who join together in an atmosphere of 'fraternization and friendship' to remember the 550,000 soldiers killed in Ieper during the Great War.

Whilst in Ieper, HMS WILDFIRE represented the Royal Navy at a Mayoral Reception, and at wreath-laying ceremonies at the Menin Gate Memorial, the Belgian War Memorial and the German Cemetery at Langemarck. Approximately 250,000 British soldiers lost their lives in Flanders, almost a third of all British fatalities in the Great War. At least 150,000 of these servicemen are buried in and around Ieper.

The British Menin Gate is the most visited Great War Memorial on the Western Front. Into its huge panels are carved the names of 55,000 missing officers and men. Remembrance is kept very much alive in Ieper and every night of the year at 8.00pm buglers play "The Last Post".

Sub Lieutenant Laura Harrison presented the Mayor of Ieper with an HMS WILDFIRE crest. The HMS WILDFIRE team were presented with individual medals and a team plaque on completion of the march. The team completed 30 km on Friday, 40 km on Saturday and 30 km on Sunday, 60 miles in total.

Before returning home, the reservists also paid a visit to Tyne Cot, the resting place of nearly 12,000 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces, the largest number of burials in any Commonwealth cemetery of either world war, and the Flanders Fields Museum. Despite scorching sunshine, torrential rain and numerous blisters everyone thoroughly enjoyed the event and the team intend to return in 2008.