Sanctuary Wood & Hooge Crater
An aerial film of the Sanctuary wood and Hooge crater areas of the Ypres salient.
Above The Battlefield: Hooge Crater Cemetery
Above The Battlefield is a project to film the WW1 Battlefields from above using a DJI Phantom 2 Vision+ Drone. All filming is done with permission and special thanks to Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
This video shows Hooge Crater Cemetery one of the largest in the Flanders battlefields close to Ypres. There 5,923 graves here and more than half of them are unknown soldiers. More on the cemetery here:
More information on the project on:
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Heart of Nowhere Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Hooge Crater Cemetery & Museum approach to
Approach to Hooge Crater Cemetery & WW1 Museum near Ypres, Belgium.
This museum is a must see.
Passchendaele Ypres Hooge Crater in March 2017
One of our Flanders Fields films of the Battlefields and Cemetery's of Ypres and Passchendaele. Lots more films to view. We hope you enjoy the film.
Ypres Hooge Crater Cemetary
Kasteelhof 't Hooghe - Ypres/Ieper
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Battlefield Tour of the Hooge Crater Belgium - AWRT
On the weekend of the 14-18 Oct 2011, the AWRT gang visited Ypres and the site of the Hooge Crater. In the video you will see the museum at the side of the crater and some of the original trenches and bunkers that still stand today
Ypres, The Hooge Crater Memorial, World War 1 Battlefields European Driving Tours
On our Battlefields of Pas de Calais & Flanders Tour we spend some time in Ypres visiting the cities memorials, the Menin Gate and the Hooge Crater memorial & cemetery
WW1 Cemetry, Hooge Crater, Slideshow.
The cemetery at Hooge Crater.
Lille Gate and Ramparts Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium
Short video of the Lille Gate and Ramparts Cemetery, Belgium; Lille Gate being one of several entrances to the old fortified city, but the only one that survived the destruction in the First World war. Rampart Cemetery, just above and to one side of the gate, is just one of many Commonwealth war memorial cemeteries in Ypres. Our interest in filming and photographing these great and important monuments stems from our interest in genealogy and history.
Belgium is only 20 minutes down the motorway from Calais, France, and Ypres (signed posted as Ieper) isn't much further. So it's is a convenient stop-off on returning from a week's holiday in France before catching the ferry back to Dover, England; provided of course you can schedule a day on your return journey and not rushing up the motorways at the last minute to catch the ferry. We achieve this by adding an extra day to the holiday so that we arrive back near Calais the night before specifically so that we can spend the day either in Calais or Belgium; Ypres being a particular favourite of ours, especially as they have several really good restaurants there that does excellent English food; ideal if you're a vegetarian.
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Hill 60, Ieper (Ypres) Belgium
Hill 60, so named because of the map contour around the site, is located about 2 miles south east of Ieper. In the Great War, its height and location made it a focus of fighting on the Ypres Salient.
Of particular note, although not so clear in this 2D video, is the current undulating nature of the preserved Hill 60 site. It is full of concrete bunkers but also vast areas of mine and artillery craters.
No doubt, Hill 60 was both an important location to hold militarily but a damned awful place to hold and live.
Corrections to commentary:
1. I keep saying Hill 62!! This is Hill 60.
2. I have been advised by Simon (Belgium) that the large above ground bunker seen in this video is Aussie made not German.
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TOEN & NU - HET HOOGHE / THEN & NOW - HOOGHE & HOOGHE CRATER
Het op een belangrijke strategisch plaats langs de Meenseweg gelegen kasteeldomein van het Hooghe was vooral in het voorjaar van 1915 één van de gevaarlijkste plaatsen aan het Westelijke Front. Dankzij o.m. de schitterende foto's die Sgt. C. Pilkington in 1914 wist te maken en die nu deel uitmaken van de fascinerende collectie van het IWM kan ik u meenemen op een trip naar 't Hooghe toen en nu...
Ramparts Cemetery, Ypres
A visit of remembrance.
Hooge Crater Cemetery
Map of the battle lines during WW1 around Ypres; The cemetery is on the Menin Road just outside Ypres
Polizje Château Cemetery Ypres Belgium
Philip Joseph Bradley Grave
Passchendaele Ypres Reservoir Cemetery. in March 2017.
One of our Flanders fields films of the Battlefields and Cemetery's of Ypres and Passchendaele. Lots more films to view. Hope you enjoy the film.
Hooge Cemetery Video and Menin Gate
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WWI Cemetery and Trench Tours in Ypres, Belgium
Hi everyone! Here is the video we made while visiting the cemeteries and war memorials in Ypres, Belgium. Sorry that this was such a long video but I found everything so interesting and I just had to share it.
If you are interested in taking this tour in Ypres, here is the information: . We took the Grand Tour and it was absolutely amazing. Highly recommended! Thanks so much to our Tour Guide Christine, you were fantastic!
Post questions or comments below. Thanks for watching! Enjoy :)
Sanctuary Wood, Hill 62,Belgium
Leaving the historic Belgian town of Ypres via the Menin Gate, you can travel the once heavily- contested Menin Road for just a few kilometres and come across a number of familiar names and places. Sanctuary Wood is on the site of Hill 62 (as was) and is one of the long-established stops for those interested in First War sites. It claims to be an undisturbed section of the trenches and certainly, the outline of craters both big and small are easily made out amidst the dug-outs. There is also a small museum which seems largely unchanged from the first time I visited thirty years ago. Vintage stereoscopes show graphic pictures from the Western Front and each room is lined by 'finds' presumably turned up in nearby fields.I keep expecting to find this place updated but as an example of the way in which we used to remember as well as for its own value, it's a must visit for any student of the Great War.
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