Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, near Poperinge, Belgium
Video of the Lijssenthoek Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery near Poperinge. CWGC says
During the First World War, the village of Lijssenthoek was situated on the main communication line between the Allied military bases in the rear and the Ypres battlefields. Close to the Front, but out of the extreme range of most German field artillery, it became a natural place to establish casualty clearing stations. The cemetery was first used by the French 15th Hopital D'Evacuation and in June 1915, it began to be used by casualty clearing stations of the Commonwealth forces.
From April to August 1918, the casualty clearing stations fell back before the German advance and field ambulances (including a French ambulance) took their places.
The cemetery contains 9,901 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 24 being unidentified. There are 883 war graves of other nationalities, mostly French and German, 11 of these are unidentified. There is 1 Non World War burial here.
The only concentration burials were 24 added to Plot XXXI in 1920 from isolated positions near Poperinghe and 17 added to Plot XXXII from St. Denijs Churchyard in 1981.
Eight of the headstones are Special Memorials to men known to be buried in this cemetery, these are located together alongside Plot 32 near the Stone of Remembrance.
The cemetery, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, is the second largest Commonwealth cemetery in Belgium.
Remembrance: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Poperinge Belgium
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In Poperinge, Belgium there is a military Cemetery called Lijssenthoek Cemetery.
It is a military cemetery where those who fought and died during world war one or the Great war, as if used to be called.
Lijssenthoek has an incredible vistors center.
There is a whisper wall, which gives new meaning to if walls could talk. Here you can listen to the accounts of people who were there and experienced the Great War.
There are displays that show some of the apparel of those buried there.
There is alot of information not just on the cemetery, but the people who resting place is Lijssenthoek.
Before the cemetery there was a hospital. There are displays of the tools doctors and nurses used doing that time, and there is information about how the hospital worked and where it was located.
It is a great thing to see in belgium.
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Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
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Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery bears witness to more than four years of warfare, with the graves of 10,784 soldiers mainly British and Australian, commemorating Driver Ponting, Driver Lewis and Pte Thomas from the Terang District.
Erfgoedprijs 2015 - genomineerde Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Poperinge
Om de twee jaar reikt de Provincie West-Vlaanderen een prijs uit voor erfgoed.
In dit filmpje hoor je Jurgen Vanlerberghe van stad Poperinge, die genomineerd was voor Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery en uiteindelijk ook in de prijzen viel.
Lijssenthoek Cemetery Poperinge
Een korte impressie van de militaire begraafplaats (WO1) Lijssenthoek Cemetery van de Common Wealth, nabij Poperinge.
Lijssenthoek Military cemetery
Het Lijssenthoek military cemetery in Poperinge is de grootste hospitaalbegraafplaats. Voor bijna iedere dag van de oorlog is er wel een soldatengraf. Het is na Tyne Cot Cemetery de grootste Engelse begraafplaats in de Westhoek en telt meer dan 10.700 graven verspreid over 35 perken op een oppervlakte van ongeveer 4 ha. De begraafplaats is ommuurd en heeft een poortgebouw met twee zijgebouwen. Kort voorbij de ingang staat de Stone of Remembrance. Het Cross of Sacrifice staat in de oostelijke hoek.
Brandhoek Military Cemetery
0:35 Private G. Murphy
1:35 Private R. Annesley
2:35 Private Charles William Wicks
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
Belgique : Cimetière militaire de lijssenthoek
Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, le village de Lijssenthoek était situé sur la principale voie de communication entre les bases militaires alliées de l'arrière et les champs de bataille d'Ypres. Situé près du front, mais hors de la portée maximale de l'artillerie de campagne allemande, c'était un endroit naturel pour établir des postes d'évacuation sanitaire. Le cimetière a d'abord été utilisé par le 15e Hôpital d'évacuation français, puis, en juin 1915, par les postes d'évacuation sanitaire des forces du Commonwealth. D'avril à août 1918, les postes d'évacuation sanitaire ont dû reculer devant la progression allemande, et des ambulances de campagne (dont une ambulance française) ont pris leur place. Le cimetière accueille 9 901 sépultures de soldats du Commonwealth de la Première Guerre mondiale, dont 24 ne sont pas identifiées. Il y a 883 sépultures de soldats d'autres nationalités, des Français et des Allemands surtout, dont 11 ne sont pas identifiées. Une des sépultures n'est liée à aucune des deux guerres mondiales. Les seules sépultures de regroupement sont les 24 qui ont été ajoutées au lot XXXI en 1920, qui venaient de postes isolés près de Poperinge, et les 17 ayant été ajoutées au lot XXXII, et qui ont été transférées du cimetière de l'église St. Denijs en 1981. Huit des pierres tombales sont des monuments commémoratifs spéciaux qui rendent hommage à des hommes qu'on sait être enterrés dans ce cimetière; elles sont regroupées à côté du lot 32, près de la Pierre du Souvenir. Le cimetière, dessiné par Sir Reginald Blomfield, est le deuxième plus important cimetière du Commonwealth en Belgique.
Le cimetière Lijssenthoek est le plus grand cimetière-hôpital au monde. Des forçats chinois, des Français, Américains, prisonniers allemands, une infirmière anglaise, soldats du Commonwealth y sont enterrés sous 10 779 pierres tombales uniformes. lijssenthoek.be/fr
Ce cimetière contient les tombes de 7367 britanniques ,1058 canadiens, 1131 australiens ,291 néo-zélandais, 29 sud africains, 21 indiens, 658 français, 3 américains, 223 allemands et 3 inconnus et environ 30 tombes chinoises.
Belgian Military Cemetery, Houthulst
The most well-known Belgian war cemetery, with 1,855 graves arranged in the form of a sixpointed star. The victims fell mainly during the liberation offensive of 1918. It is located in the heart of Houthulst forest and also holds 81 Italian soldiers.
Poperinge Military Cemetery
Visit to Pvt Marmaduke Huitson grave
A visit to Lijssenthoek War Cemetery, Belgium
A short documentary video about the war cemetery at Lijssenthoek in Belgium, the sound quality is not very good as it was windy.
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It was one of the cemeteries visited by King George V during his 1922 pilgrimage to the battlefields of the First World War.
The King, who lost members of his own family in the war, embarked on a tour of a number of cemeteries while they were being formally established by the Commission.
The cemetery contains 9,901 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 24 being unidentified. There are 883 war graves of other nationalities, mostly French and German, 11 of these are unidentified. There is 1 Non World War burial here.
Aside from Tyne Cot it is the biggest British Cemetery in Flanders.
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Brandhoek New Military Cemetery
2:05 Driver C. Guthro
2:15 Gunner C.J. Walshe
2:55 Lieutenant Colonel T.G. Irving DSO
3:00 Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse VC & Bar, MC
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
Visiting the WW1 Graves in Belgium
Travel journalist and film-maker Lisa Francesca Nand visits her great-grandfather's grave and the WW1 battlefields and museums, in Ypres Belgium.
Mendinghem Cemetery
We made our first stop at Mendinghem Cemetery near Poperinge, Belgium. Our tour took us across France and Belgium to see the historic World War 1 and 2 battlefields as we paid our respects on the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings at the Normandy beaches.
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery,Roy Kevin Holloway
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
Is the impressive witness of more than four years of war violelence
From 1915 until 1920 the hamlet of Lijssenthoek became the venue for the biggest evacuation hospital in the Ypres salient,
Lissenthoek Military Cemetery contains 10,784 burials.
Amongst them there is one woman.....
it is a multiculural cemetery,
respresenting thirty nationalities,
acaommonwealth burials as well as French, American and German victims,
And there is a chinese plot
Poperinghe New Military Cemetery
CWGC cemetery Poperinghe New Military Cemetery
Moreuil Communal Cemetery Allied Extension
1:00 Lt A.V.S. Nordheimer
1:40 Pvt C.J. James
2:35 LCpl J.A. Batty
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
Nine Elms Military Cemetery, Thelus, Belgium
Video of this military cemetery near Poperinge in Belgium. CWGC says
NINE ELMS was the name given by the Army to a group of trees 460 metres East of the Arras-Lens main road, between Thelus and Roclincourt.
The cemetery was begun, after the capture of Vimy Ridge, by the burial in what is now Plot I, Row A of 80 men of the 14th Canadian Infantry Battalion, who fell on the 9th April 1917; and this and the next row were filled by June 1917. Three burials were made in Plot I, Row C, in July 1918. The rest of the cemetery was made after the Armistice by the concentration of British and French graves from the battlefields of Vimy and Neuville-St. Vaast and from certain small cemeteries
There are now nearly 700, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, almost 150 are unidentified and a special memorial is erected to one Canadian soldier, believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials record the names of 44 soldiers from Canada and ten from the United Kingdom, buried in other cemeteries, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. Four graves in Plot IV, identified as a whole but not individually, are marked by headstones bearing the additional words: Buried near this spot. The great majority of the British graves are of April 1917; the French are of 1914 and 1915. 177 French graves have been removed to other cemeteries.