Ypres In Flanders Fields WW1 Museum - Benelux Trip 19
We visit the In Flanders Museum at the Cloth Hall in Ypres. I climb all 231 steps top of the bell tower for a better view of the Ypres Salient battlefields. Those carillion bells were really loud!
We walked back via Ypres ramparts.
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1917 Real WWI Footage Menin Road Ypres & Albion Truck
The Menin Road was the main carriage way to the Allied / Australian Flanders Battlefields of Polygon Wood Messines and Passchendaele. An infamous spot along Menin Road was called Hell Fire Corner which as it is today, was a cross roads. Hell Fire Corner was named as it was under fire of German Artillery. Thus hessian hides were erected so that Germans could not see traffic. The Albion Truck was a common motorised vehicle on the road. Scottish Company, Albion Motor Car Company Ltd during World War 1 built for the War Office large quantities of 3 ton trucks powered by a 32 hp engine using chain drive to the rear wheels. These were common truck on the road. The Abion truck shown at end of footage is located at Army Museum Bandiana Wodonga Victoria. Albions are as Sure as the Sunrise.
YPRES, Belgium Travel Vlog | IEPER Flanders Battlefield Tour
I recently spent two incredible nights in Ypres, Belgium. I stayed at Main Street Boutique Hotel which was the cutest hotel ever!
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I loved exploring the historical town in West Flanders and did a Ypres Salient Battlefield Tour on the second day. I had such a great time there and I can't wait to return to Belgium to explore more. Check out my previous video for my time in Bruges!
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YPRES
In December 2008, my fascination with the Great War took me to Ypres, Belgium - a town situated on the line that was known as the Western Front during the war years of 1914-1918. While shooting pictures and footage with my old camera it suddenly dawned on me that it might be an interesting project to put together a short video accompanied with a little self-penned music. Here's the result.
Ieper 2014
Een indrukwekkend filmpje van 5 minuten, gemaakt in Ieper in België in het museum en bij The Last Post, de herdenkingsplek van de WO I
Belgium: Ypres - Ieper
Ypres is a Belgian municipality located in the Flemish province of West Flanders.
Te town had long been fortified to keep out invaders. Parts of the early ramparts, dating from 1385, still survive near the Rijselpoort (Lille Gate). Over time, the earthworks were replaced by sturdier masonry and earth structures and a partial moat. Ypres was further fortified in the 17th and 18th centuries while under the occupation of the Habsburgs and the French. Major works were completed at the end of the 17th century by the French military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban.
During World War I, Ypres was the centre of intense and sustained battles between German and Allied forces. During the war, because it was hard to pronounce in English, British troops nicknamed the city Wipers.
Ypres occupied a strategic position during World War I because it stood in the path of Germany's planned sweep across the rest of Belgium and into France from the north (the Schlieffen Plan). The neutrality of Belgium was guaranteed by Britain; Germany's invasion of Belgium brought the British Empire into the war.
After the war the town was rebuilt using money paid by Germany in reparations, with the main square, including the Cloth Hall and town hall, being rebuilt as close to the original designs as possible. The Cloth Hall today is home to In Flanders Fields Museum, dedicated to Ypres's role in the First World War.The whole complex was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999.
The Gothic-style Saint Martin's Cathedral, originally built in 1221, was also completely reconstructed after the war, but now with a higher spire.
The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres commemorates those soldiers of the British Commonwealth -- with the exception of Newfoundland -- who fell in the Ypres Salient during the First World War before 16 August 1917, who have no known grave. The memorial now bears the names of more than 54,000 officers and men.
Every evening since 1928 (except for a period during the Second World War when Ypres was occupied by Germany), at precisely eight o'clock, traffic around the imposing arches of the Menin Gate Memorial has been stopped while the Last Post is sounded beneath the Gate by the local fire brigade. This tribute is given in honour of the memory of British Empire soldiers who fought and died there.
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World War 1: In Flanders Fields footage (Ypres, Ieper - Belgium)
This clip features footage of World War I. Source: 'In Flanders Fields Museum', Ypres, western Belgium.
Interview with Piet Chielens Curator In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres Belgium
Interview with Piet Chielens Curator In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres Belgium.
For 'Children of The Great War' - Age Exchange
A film by Ivan Riches
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WW1 Ypres - Passchendaele Museum - Stuart Curry
Memorial Museum Passchendaele, Zonebeke Chateau, Belgium. On this special day WW1 re-enactment soldiers from all around the world gathered here in replica uniforms for the weekend. Scattered thoughout the grounds was different military displays of weapons and equipment from the Great War.
Help find the Photos and Identify WW1 Diggers from the Great War.
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Cycling to Ieper (Ypres) and the Menin Gate., On to Tyne Cot
Best Cycle ride in Belgium. Zeebrugge to Brugge to Ieper (Ypres), then on to Tyne Cot cemetery at Passendaele. A great bike ride, but a very moving event. We witnessed the nightly ceremony of the Last Post at The Menin Gate.
The Last Post at The Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium
Filmed on Thursday 6th March 2014. I believe the piper is from The Royal Ulster Rifles Museum.
The Great War Tour - Ypres Passendale Somme
De feature film van onze Great War tour in juli. Een tocht langs de Ieper Salient en het slagveld van de Somme met o.a. Tyne cot cemetery, Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, Thiepval Memorial en Lochnagar Crater.
De gebruikte tekst in de film komt uit het gedicht In Flanders Fields, geschreven door Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae in mei 1915:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved,and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Kasteelhof 't Hooghe - Ypres/Ieper
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Then and Now Menin Road Real WW1 Footage from Hellfire Corner to BirrX
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This doco compares Menin Road today to actual WW1 Australian film taken a few days after the Battle of Menin Road around the 22nd September 1917. From Hellfire Corner to Birr X Roads.
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.
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...
Sanctuary Wood & Hooge Crater
An aerial film of the Sanctuary wood and Hooge crater areas of the Ypres salient.
B&B The Protea Menin Road - Zonnebeke (Geluveld) - Belgium
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B&B The Protea Menin Road hotel city: Zonnebeke (Geluveld) - Country: Belgium
Address: Menenstraat 47; zip code: 8980
B&B The Protea is located at the historical site of Flanders Fields, on the Menin Road in the Ypres Salient, a 5-minute drive from the Menin Gate and 5 km from the Museum Memorial Passendale.
-- Le B&B The Protea Menin Road vous accueille sur le site historique de Flanders Fields, sur la route de Menin, au Saillant d’Ypres, à 5 minutes en voiture de la porte de Menin et à 5 km du musée mémorial Passchendaele.
-- El B&B The Protea se encuentra en el emplazamiento histórico de los campos de Flandes, en el saliente de Ypres de la carretera de Menin, a 5 minutos en coche de la puerta de Menin y a 10 km del Museo en memoria de la batalla de Passendale.
-- Das B&B The Protea liegt an der historischen Stätte der Schlachtfelder von Flandern an der Straße Menin im Ypernbogen, eine 5-minütige Fahrt vom Ehrenbogen Menenpoort und 5 km vom Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 entfernt.
-- B&B The Protea Menin Road ligt op de historische locatie van Flanders Fields, aan de Menenstraat in Ieperboog. Op 5 minuten rijafstand is de Menenpoort. Het herdenkingsmuseum Passchendaele ligt 5 kilometer verderop.
-- Situato presso il sito storico di Flanders Fields e posizionato lungo la strada di Menin, nell'area del Saliente di Ypres, il B&B The Protea sorge a 5 minuti di guida dalla Porta di Menin e a 10 km dal museo memoriale di Passchendale, e offre un...
-- B&B The Protea住宿加早餐旅馆坐落在弗兰德斯战场（Flanders Fields）的历史区，位于Ypres Salient的门宁路（Menin Road），距离门宁门（Menin Gate）有5分钟的车程，距离帕森达勒纪念博物馆（Museum Memorial Passendale）5公里。住宿加早餐旅馆设有环绕着隔音墙的花园。 B&B the Protea住宿加早餐旅馆的每间客房均配有平板卫星电视、弹簧床垫寝具以及带淋浴的私人浴室。每天早晨，客人均可以享用免费的欧陆式早餐。 ...
-- Отель типа «постель и завтрак» The Protea расположен на исторической территории полей Фландрии, на Дороге Менен, близ Ипрского выступа и в 5 минутах езды от Мененских ворот. В 5 км открыт Мемориальный музей битвы при Пашендейле.
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Battle of the Menin Road
20 September 1917 - 25 September 1917
The Battle of Menin Road was an offensive operation, part of the Third Battle of Ypres on the Western Front, undertaken by the British Second Army in an attempt to take sections of the curving ridge, east of Ypres, which the Menin Road crossed. This action saw the first involvement of Australian units (1st and 2nd Divisions AIF) in the Third Battle of Ypres. The attack was successful along its entire front, though the advancing troops had to overcome formidable entrenched German defensive positions which included mutually supporting concrete pill-box strongpoints and also resist fierce German counter-attacks. A feature of this battle was the intensity of the opening British artillery support. The two AIF Divisions sustained 5,013 casualties in the action.
Ieper
Ypres is a Belgian municipality located in the Flemish province of West Flanders. Though Ieper is the Dutch and only official name, the city's French name, Ypres, is most commonly used in English due to its role in World War I when only French was in official use in Belgian documents, including on maps. The municipality comprises the city of Ypres and the villages of Boezinge, Brielen, Dikkebus, Elverdinge, Hollebeke, Sint-Jan, Vlamertinge, Voormezele, Zillebeke, and Zuidschote. Together, they are home to some 34,900 inhabitants.
During World War I, Ypres was the centre of intense and sustained battles between German and Allied forces. During the war, because the British troops had trouble pronouncing its name, they nicknamed the city Wipers.