Bedford House Cemetery, Ypres
UK royals visit Bedford House cemetery near Ypres
(31 Jul 2017) UK ROYALS VISIT BEDFORD HOUSE CEMETERY NEAR YPRES
Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited Bedford House Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery on Monday (31 JULY 2017), on the 100th anniversary of the Third Battle of Ypres, known as Passchendaele.
The First World War burial ground near Zillebeke, itself near Ypres on the Western Front in Belgium, is the final resting place for around 5,140 World War 1 servicemen.
Prince William and his wife, Kate, were given a tour of the cemetery and spoke to Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery (CWGC) interns at the site.
Monday marks the centennial of the start of the Allied offensive, which ended up barely moving the front line.
Half a million soldiers were estimated to have been killed or wounded during the 100-day battle.
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Best Attractions and Places to See in Ieper Ypres, Belgium
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List of Best Things to do in Ieper (Ypres), Belgium
Menin Gate Memorial
Last Post ceremony
Saint Julien Memorial
Bedford House Cemetery
Lest We Forget Battlefield Tours (Flanders)
In Flanders Fields Museum
Ramparts Cemetery
Saint George's Memorial Church
Langemark Cemetery
Essex Farm Cemetery
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'Bedford House Cemetery Groot oorlogsbegraafplaats WO1'2015
Ypres Reservoir Cemetery
2:00 Pioneer A.F. Bowden
10:00 Corporal G.F. Gray
17:05 Private E. Booth
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
Cement House Commonealth Military Cemetery, Langemark, Belgium
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Cement House cemetery is in Langemark, north of Ieper. It was the scene of two battles, the first on 21-24 October 1914 and the second on 16-18 August 1917. The village was in German hands from April 1915 to August 1917 and from April to September 1918. Commonwealth, French and Belgian forces have in turn defended and attacked it.
Cement House was the military name given to a fortified farm building on the Langemark-Boesinghe (now Boezinge) road. The original Cement House Cemetery (now Plot I, an irregular group of 231 graves) was begun here at the end of August 1917 and used by the 4th and 17th Division burial officers, by field ambulances and by units in the line until April 1918.
In the years immediately following the Armistice, most of Plots II - XV were added when Commonwealth graves were brought in from the battlefields and small burial grounds around Langemark and Poelkapelle, mostly dating from the Autumn of 1917. The more important graveyards or groups of graves concentrated into this cemetery were the following:-
ASQUILLIES CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of eleven British soldiers of November 1918.
AUDREGNIES CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of eight British soldiers of August 1914 and one of November 1918.
ELVERDINGHE CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of nine British soldiers of October 1914.
HENSIES CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of one Canadian and three British soldiers of November 1918 and one British soldier of August 1914.
HEULE CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of six British soldiers and one unidentified airman buried in October 1918.
MAISIERES COMMUNAL CEMETERY, which contained the graves of sixteen British soldiers of August 1914.
MEERENDRE CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of four R.A.F. officers buried in October 1918.
OOSTNIEUWERKE CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of five Canadian and five British soldiers of April 1915 and one British officer of October 1914.
PHEASANT TRENCH CEMETERY, LANGEMARCK, was in the fields a little East of Langemarck village. Pheasant Trench and Pheasant Farm were taken by the 51st (Highland) Division on the 20th September, 1917, but the cemetery was begun two months later. It contained the graves of fourteen soldiers from the United Kingdom.
PROVEN CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of one Canadian officer and three British soldiers.
QUAREGNON COMMUNAL CEMETERY, which contained the graves of eight British soldiers buried in 1914.
ROLLEGHEM CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of one R.A.F. officer and four British soldiers buried in 1918.
THULIN NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY, which contained the graves of eight British soldiers of August 1914 and two R.A.F. officers of October 1918.
WINKEL ST. ELOI CHURCHYARD, which contained the graves of thirty British and four Newfoundland soldiers buried in October 1918.
Plots XVI, XVII and XVIII originally contained some 500 French graves, but these were removed in 1922. The space vacated has been filled in over the intervening years by graves brought in from communal cemeteries and churchyards in the area, when their maintenance in these locations could no longer be assured. The cemetery is still used for the burial of remains that continue to be discovered in the vicinity, and a number of plots have been extended to accommodate these graves.
There are now 3,592 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery, 2,425 of the burials are unidentified.
Of the 22 Second World War burials in the cemetery, five are unidentified.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
The above information was supplied by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Ypres Town Military Cemetery Belgium, Roy Kevin Holloway
Country:Belgium
Locality:West-Vlaanderen
Identified Casualties:491Location Information
Ypres Town Cemetery Extension is located 1 kilometre east of Ieper town centre, on the Zonnebeekseweg (N332), connecting Ieper to Zonnebeke. From Ieper town centre the Zonnebeekseweg is located via Torhoutstraat and right onto Basculestraat. Basculestraat ends at a main cross roads and the first left hand turn is the Zonnebeekseweg (N345). The cemetery itself is located 300 metres along the Zonnebeekseweg on the right hand side of the road.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access possible via main entrance.
Historical Information
From October 1914 to the summer of 1918, Ypres (now Ieper) formed the centre of a salient held by Commonwealth (and for a while French) forces. From April 1915, the town was bombarded and destroyed more completely than any other town of its size on the western front.
By the outbreak of the Second World War, Ypres had been completely rebuilt, but saw heavy fighting before it fell to the Germans on 29 May 1940.
YPRES TOWN CEMETERY, close to the Menin Gate, was used from October 1914 to May 1915, and once in 1918. The cemetery contains 145 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, grouped in plots among the civil graves.
The EXTENSION, on the east side of the town cemetery, was also begun in October 1914 and was used until April 1915, and on two further occasions in 1918. The extension was much increased after the Armistice when 367 graves were brought in from small cemeteries and isolated positions east and north of Ypres.
During and after the fighting of May 1940, three civilian hospitals in the town, (Hopital de Notre Dame, the Clinique des Soeurs Noires and the Red Cross Hospital in St. Aloisius School, D'Hondstraat), cared for the wounded, and those who died were buried in the Town Cemetery Extension. Others buried on the battlefield were later brought in by the Ypres town services.
There are now 598 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in the extension. 137 of the burials are unidentified and there are special memorials to 16 servicemen known or believed to be buried among them. Second World War burials number 43, of which 13 are unidentified.
The extension was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
Tyne Cot Commonwealth Military Cemetery
A short piece to show remembrance to Tyne cot Cemetery in Belgium
12,000 Commonwealth soldiers remembered for their sacrifice during the very first years of world war one..
Buttes CWGC Cemetery, July 2009
a view of Buttes New British Cemetery from on the top of the Butte, including the Australian memorial.
Artillery Wood Cemetery
1:00 Guardsman J. McKeon
1:20 Private E.H. Evans
1:50 3rd Battalion C.E.F. Soldier
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
Motorhome WW1 Tour 2014
Created on 2 November, 2014. Zoe and I head off in Herman for a guided tour of the World War One sites in Belgium and France.
We have a fantastic time, meet some some great people and saw some very emotional sites
We visited:
Bruge
Brussels
Ieper (Ypres)
Menin Gate
Bedford House Cemetery
Tyne Cot Cemetery
Langemark Cemetery
Diksmuide (Trench of Death)
Lochnaga Mine Crater
Thiepval
Newfoundland Park
Planete Chocolat, Brussels can be found here
Music
Call to Adventure, Hero Down, Wallpaper
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Places of Flanders Fields (2) : Yser to Plugstreet timelapse
Relics and remains of World War One are still to be seen in belgian Flanders area. This is where fierce fighting were held and where hundreds of thousands soldiers from France, Belgium, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, India... were fallen. Places of remembrance are numerous along the old front line stretching from the North Sea (Yser river) to the Ypres Salient and the french border.
This timelapse movie shows an overview of some Flanders Fields places of interest : Ramskapelle observation post, german bunker Dodengang Diksmuide, Yorkshire Trench and Dugout Boezinge, Hill 63 Plugstreet(Ploegsteert), The Tunneler Wijtschate, Pool of Peace Wijtschate, Ziegler bunker Boezinge, Mesen church, Prowse Point cemetery Plugstreet, Berks Cemetery memorial Plugstreet, Indian monument Menen gate Ypres, Welsh memorial Langemark, Spanbroekmolen cemetery Wijtschate, Buttes cemetery Zonnebeke, Canadian Monument Passendaele, New Zealand Memorial Mesen, New zealand soldier Mesen, Loker War monument, Irish Peace Park Mesen, Ramskapelle belgian war graves, Potyze french cemetery Ypres, Loker church, Black Swatch monument Zonnebeke, Memorial Stone Charles Sciascia Warneton, Bedford House cemetery Zillebeke.
Berks Military Cemetery Extension
Location Information
Berks Cemetery Extension is located 12.5 kilometres south of Ieper town centre on the N365 leading from Ieper to Mesen, Ploegsteert and on to Armentieres.
From Ieper town centre the Rijselstraat runs from the market square, through the Lille Gate (Rijselpoort) and directly over the crossroads with the Ieper ring road. The road name then changes to the Rijselseweg (N336).
3.5 kilometres along the N336 lies a fork junction with the N365. The N365 which forms the right hand fork leads to the town of Mesen. The cemetery lies 3 kilometres beyond Mesen on the right hand side of the N365 and opposite Hyde Park Corner Royal Berks Cemetery.
Visiting Information
NOTE SEPTEMBER 2014: please note that on 17 October 2014 due to live national broadcasting as part of the project 'Light Front' there will be limited access to the cemetery as from 1500hrs. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Wheelchair access to the cemetery possible via main entrance. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our Enquiries Section on telephone number 01628 507200.
Historical Information
Hyde Park Corner was a road junction to the north of Ploegsteert Wood. Hill 63 was to the north-west and nearby were the 'Catacombs', deep shelters capable of holding two battalions, which were used from November 1916 onwards.
HYDE PARK CORNER (ROYAL BERKS) CEMETERY was begun in April 1915 by the 1st/4th Royal Berkshire Regiment and was used at intervals until November 1917. The cemetery contains 83 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and four German war graves.
BERKS CEMETERY EXTENSION is separated from Hyde Park Corner Cemetery by a road. The extension was begun in June 1916 and used continuously until September 1917. At the Armistice, the extension comprised Plot I only, but Plots II and III were added in 1930 when graves were brought in from Rosenberg Chateau Military Cemetery and Extension, about 1 kilometre to the north-west, when it was established that these sites could not be acquired in perpetuity. Rosenberg Chateau Military Cemetery was used by fighting units from November 1914 to August 1916. The extension was begun in May 1916 and used until March 1918. Together, the cemetery and extension were sometimes referred to as 'Red Lodge'.
Berks Cemetery Extension now contains 876 First World War burials.
Within Berks Cemetery Extension stands the PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, commemorating more than 11,000 Commonwealth servicemen who died in this sector during the First World War and have no known grave. The memorial serves the area from the line Caestre-Dranoutre-Warneton to the north, to Haverskerque-Estaires-Fournes to the south, including the towns of Hazebrouck, Merville, Bailleul and Armentieres, the Forest of Nieppe, and Ploegsteert Wood.
Those commemorated by the memorial did not die in major offensives, such as those which took place around Ypres to the north, or Loos to the south. Most were killed in the course of the day-to-day trench warfare which characterised this part of the line, or in small scale set engagements, usually carried out in support of the major attacks taking place elsewhere.
The cemetery, cemetery extension and memorial were designed by H Chalton Bradshaw.
Flanders Fields 2: Zillebeke,Sanctuary Wood,Langemark,Ijzer Monument heute/WW1 battlefield today
Ypern-Ieper-Ypres- Besuch der ehemaligen Schlachtfelder in Flandern vom ersten Weltkrieg heute. Nie wieder Krieg !
100 Jahre 1. Weltkrieg 1914 / 2014
100 years World War I 1914 / 2014
Teil 2 : Zillebeke,Sanctuary Wood Cemetery (Kanadischer Soldaten Friedhof),Langemark (deutscher Soldaten Friedhof), Ijzer Monument Diksmuide. Landschaften und Gebäude. Spurensuche.
Visit to the former battlefields of the First World War at Ypres today. Part 2. No more war ! Landscapes and buildings. Search for traces.
Playlist Oostende + Flandern:
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11 november 2017 - Tyne Cot Cemetery - Highland Cathedral
Door Andy Hoedenaken.
11 november is niet zomaar een jaarlijks terugkerende (Belgische) feestdag. Het is een dag waarop we iedereen (kind, vrouw en man) herdenken die hun leven hebben gegeven opdat wij allen in vrijheid kunnen leven. Als kind van deze vrijheid is het dan ook mijn plicht om al deze helden te herdenken en onvoorwaardelijk respect te betonen.
Track X Cemetery Flanders
Ceremony for the Unknown Soldier of the Royal Sussex Regiment
Khanda & Ik Onkar Tribute to Sikh soldiers by Dy Mayor of Ieper, Belgium at Menin Gate
Harjinder Singh Kukreja, a Businessman and Social Activist of Ludhiana joined the First Deputy Mayor and at that time the acting Mayor, Mr. Jef Verschoore of Ieper in Belgium in presenting a Khanda and Ik Onkar at the Menin Gate. The Menin Gate is a war memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium, dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are unknown.
Sikh troops have fought in the First Battle of Ypres (22nd October - 22nd November, 1914) and the Second battle of Ypres (22nd April - 15th May, 1915).
On 22nd October, 1914, the Ferozepore Brigade arrived in Ypres. They comprised mostly Sikhs and were sent to the trenches between Hollebeke and Messines. In 1915, Sikh troops serving in Ypres were among the first ever victims of successful gas attacks in history. Between 24th April and 1st May, 1915, the Lahore Division had lost 3889 men, most of whom were Sikhs in and around Ieper.
Sadly there are only 122 names of Sikh soldiers engraved on the Menin Gate. I requested the Deputy Mayor of Ieper in Belgium to join me in paying tribute to salute and commemorate the thousands of unknown Sikhs who died in and around Ieper, Belgium with the Sikh symbols, says Harjinder Singh Kukreja who also visited the Belgian Trenches in which Sikhs fought bravely and died in gas attacks by the Germans.
A well-known Belgian historian, Mr. Dominiek Dendooven also joined Harjinder in paying tribute to the unknown Sikh soldiers said, It is tragic that how for 80-long years the immense contribution and sacrifice of Sikhs remained forgotten in Belgium but it was only during the 3rd Century of the birth of the Khalsa in April 1999, great contribution and martyrdom of these brave Sikh soldiers were remembered jointly by Town Hall of Ieper and Sardar Bhupinder Singh Holland, representative of European Sikh Community, with Siri Akhand Path Sahib, Sikh Exhibition, Seminar on Sikh History in Ieper. On 3rd of April 1999, at Hollebeke, 1st Monument of these brave soldiers was built and inaugurated by Panj Pira,s. Since then every year on 11th of November, Sikhs throughout Europe are coming to Ieper in large numbers to pay respect and rich tribute. It is encouraging that now Sikhs like Harjinder Singh Kukreja visit the memorial and remind us ongoingly about their contribution.
Harjinder Singh Kukreja also visited the Samadh of a Sikh soldier in Bedford House Cemetery in Ieper where the Samadh of Sepoy Kishan Singh is located. The tombstone in Gurmukhi reads, Ik Onkar Sri Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh, Sanskaare Gaye'. This tribute to the forgotten Sikh soldiers will remind the generations to come to never forget Sikh sacrifices in Europe's freedom.
Memorials of Sikh Soldiers in Belgium.
June 2012 : British Sikhs remember soldiers from World War I at Memorial sites in Belgium
A UK delegation of British Sikhs from the West Midlands visited Belgium to pay tributes to soldiers who were killed in World War I. The quartet consisting of Mr Dal Singh Dhesy, Mr Gurbachan Singh Jammu, Mr Gurdev Singh Manku -- Honorary Alderman Birmingham City and Mrs Baldev Kaur Manku, from the Sikh Community and Youth Service UK, in Handsworth, Birmingham who are also members of the Royal British Legion and the UK Labour party, paid their respects to the missing and those killed in action by participating in the Last Post ceremony that took place at Menin Gate. They also laid a wreath from the Sikh community, to honour the fallen.
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The tributes were paid at the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing, which is a war memorial based in Ypres, Belgium and is dedicated to the commemoration of British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I, and whose graves are unknown. Following the opening of the Menin Gate Memorial in 1927, the citizens of Ypres wanted to express their gratitude towards those who had given their lives for Belgium's freedom. As such, every evening at 20:00 hours, buglers from the local fire brigade close the road which passes under the Memorial and sound the Last Post. Over 54,896 names including those of Sikh soldiers who fought for the British Indian Army, are engraved on the walls.
The Last Post Ceremony has become part of daily life in Ypres and the local people are proud of this simple but moving tribute, to the courage and self-sacrifice of those who fell in defence of their country.
A remembrance wreath was also laid at Bedford House Cemetery in Ypres where some Sikh soldiers are buried and the Memorial in the Hollebeke village where the Sikh soldiers were first posted in this region. It should be noted that pure Sikh Regiments of 15th Ludhiana Sikhs, 47th Sikhs, 34th Sikh Pioneers and mixed Regiments like 9th Bhopal Infantry, 57th Wilde's Rifles and others have fought in Belgium twice in October 1914 and April 1915. It is believed that nearly 4 thousand Sikhs have died in and around Ypres although the Commonwealth War Grave Commission has recorded only 493 British Indian soldiers. According to Historical records, Indian Corps had lost 34,252 men dead, wounded or prisoners of war ) in 14 months on the western front ( France - Belgium ) and on 27th April 1915, out of 444 men of 47th Sikhs, 348 did not come back, however the Menin Gate memorial in Ypres has the names of only 15 Sikhs of the 47th Sikhs. Between 24th April and 1st of May 1915, the Lahore Sikh Division had lost 3889 men or 30 % of the troops it had employed.
Hertfordshire Regiment - J.W.Goodwin
Private John William Goodwin from Ashwell, Hertfordshire was killed in action on 31st July 1917 in the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as Passchendaele. Historian Dan Hill, from Herts at War, gives details of his life and action in the battle at his grave site at Bedford House Cemetery in the Ypres Salient, Belgium on 18th May 2013.