John McCrae site at Essex Farm, Ieper, Belgium
The Canadian John McCrae wrote the famous World War One poem, 'In Flanders Fields' whilst serving on the Western Front in 1914-18.
This video starts in the Essex Farm Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery on the northern edge of Ieper, Belgium. Close by is the medical bunker where McCrae was stationed and is now a site dedicated to his memory.
One of the most poignant graves I saw in my travels of the Somme & Ieper areas was that for Rifleman VJ Strudwick (The Rifle Brigade) who died on 14th January 1916 aged just 15. The family inscription on his grave says, 'Not Gone From Memoray or From Love'
The video continues throught the medical bunker area and to the satrt of the 'Flanders Fields' behind.
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Ypres 2010 - Essex Farm Cemetry with guide Chris Lock
Ypres 2010 - Essex Farm Cemetry with guide Chris Lock
Belgium in a day - Essex Farm Cemetery, Yorkshire Trench, In Flanders Fields Museum
WW1 history is prominent in Belgium. Relive three top sites in this video: Essex Farm Cemetery, Yorkshire Trench, In Flanders Fields Museum
Essex Farm Cemetery
CWGC cemetery Essex Farm Cemetery
Passchendaele Ypres Bleuet Farm Cemetery Flanders Fields Belgium
Passchendaele Ypres Battlefield Tour in March 2017. We hope you like the film we have lots more to upload.
Essex Farm Cemetery
Essex Farm Cemetery is een Britse militaire begraafplaats, gelegen langs het kanaal Ieper-IJzer, net buiten Ieper in het dorp Boezinge. Tijdens de oorlog lag vlak bij de locatie een boerderij die de Britten Essex Farm noemden. De plaats lag dicht bij de frontlijn, die zich een paar kilometer ten oosten van het Ieperleekanaal bevond. In het voorjaar van 1915 werd de plaats als verbandpost gebruikt. In die periode werden hier de eerste gesneuvelden begraven die vielen bij de Tweede Slag om Ieper. Ook later in het jaar en tot oktober 1917 werden graven bijgezet. Op de begraafplaats liggen verschillende doden van de 49th. West Riding Division. Voor deze divisie werd op de kanaalberm aan de oostkant van de begraafplaats een obelisk opgericht.
WW1 Essex Farm Cemetery
Excerpt no11 from World War One Battlefields film produced by Rumble TV visits Essex Farm Cemetery. This is one of 17 excerpts available.
The film World War One Battlefields by Rumble TV could not have been possible without Stephen Anderson; Des Brogan of Mercat Tours International; Robin Blackburn,Kirsty Alexander and the pupils of Bishopbriggs Academy and of course the music.
All songs contained in the film are included courtesy of Greentrax Recordings Ltd and are from the album 'Far Far From Ypres - Songs, Poems and Music of World War One' (CD trax 1418). Contact: 01875 814155 info@greentrax.com greentrax.com
'The Green Fields of France' words and music by Eric Bogle. Performance by The Corries (Music) Ltd. Published by PLD Music Ltd./Domino Publ.co.ltd.
Film produced by Rumble TV
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WW1 Essex Farm
Excerpt no10 from World War One Battlefields film produced by Rumble TV visits Essex Farm. This is one of 17 excerpts available.
The film World War One Battlefields by Rumble TV could not have been possible without Stephen Anderson; Des Brogan of Mercat Tours International; Robin Blackburn,Kirsty Alexander and the pupils of Bishopbriggs Academy and of course the music.
All songs contained in the film are included courtesy of Greentrax Recordings Ltd and are from the album 'Far Far From Ypres - Songs, Poems and Music of World War One' (CD trax 1418). Contact: 01875 814155 info@greentrax.com greentrax.com
'The Green Fields of France' words and music by Eric Bogle. Performance by The Corries (Music) Ltd. Published by PLD Music Ltd./Domino Publ.co.ltd.
Film produced by Rumble TV
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The Tyne Cot CWGC Cemetery, nr Ieper Belgium
This is a small sample of the video clips showing views of the Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium taken from the Video History Today database.
Please take a look at Video History Today , the first web site to offer unique collections of re-usable original video clips designed for teachers and students.
The idea behind Video History Today is to give schools the raw material to make mini-documentaries and video essays on historical subjects.
Initial packages focus on World War I (Somme and Ieper areas), The Holocaust, the American Civil War and D-Day & Normandy 1944.
LAURAS FILM 99 BELGIUM ESSEX FARM YPRES
ESSEX FARM YPRES THE GRAVE OF V.J. STRUDWICK WHO DIED IN 1916 AGED JUST 15 ONE OF THE YOUNGEST TO BE KILLED DURING WW1 R.I.P.
In Flanders Feilds by John McCrae (Read in Essex Farms, where poem was written)
Hello everyone! While visiting Ypres, Belgium, we got to visit Essex Farms which is known to be the place where John McCrae wrote the famous peom In Flanders Fields during World War I. Here is the poem read aloud by Heather Brooks in Flanders Fields. Enjoy!
If you'd like to take a tour of the cemeteries in Ypres, check out Flanders Battlefield Tours at . Christine was our guide and she was wonderful! Very knowledgable and modified the tour specifically for our group.
The Bluff, near Hill 60, Ypres Salient
LAURA FILM 99 ESSEX FARM BELGIUM YPRES
THIS IS THE SITE OF THE FINAL RESTING PLACE OF V.J.STRUDWICK WHO DIED 1916 AGED 15 ONE OF THE YOUNGEST TO DIE IN CONFLICT DURING WW1
Gunners Farm Military Cemetery & Calvaire (Essex) Military Cemetery 1914 - 1918
Recorded on the 16th of March 2014 at Ploegsteert (Belgium).
Ypres 1916-2016 - WWI Bedfords' at the Essex Farm. The Last Post
From 1914 The Duke of Bedford trained local volunteers in Ampthill Park. They were drafted to reinforce the Bedfordshire Regiment.
In April 1916 some of the Ampthill recruits took
their turn in British trenches on the Yser Canal
Bank at Ypres.
On the night of 19/20 April 1916, after 2 hours of heavy bombardment, the German infantry attacked with bomb and bayonet, and gained a footing in the British front-line.
The Bedfords' resisted but sustained heavy
casualties and lost ground. At least nineteen Ampthill boys were killed that night.
In August 2016 we visited Essex Farm Cemetery and remember the chaps at the Menin Gate.
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Bleuet Farm Commonwealth Military Cemetery
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This film show Bleuet Farm Cemetery which is north west of Ieper near the village of Elverdinge. You can find it by taking the N8 road from Ieper in the direction of Veurne.
Bleuet Farm was used as a dressing station during 1917 Allied offensive on this front. The cemetery was begun in a corner of the farm and was in use from June to December 1917, though a few of the burials are of later date. Two graves were brought into the cemetery after the Armistice from isolated positions close by.
There are now 442 First World War burials in the cemetery and nine from the Second World War, all dating from the Allied retreat to Dunkirk in May 1940.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
Tours of WW1 - Essex dressing station - In Flanders Fields
This is believed to be the location where Major John McCrae wrote his famous poem In Flanders Fields after burying a friend, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, on 3rd May 1915.
Lieutenant Helmer was buried in the burial plot in the vicinity of Essex Farm at that time, but his grave was subsequently lost.
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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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Ypres 2010 - Fish's Lament at Essex Farm Cemetry
Ypres 2010 - Fish's Lament at Essex Farm Cemetry
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.