Menin Road South Military Cemetery
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Menin Road Ypres
Belgium - June 2010
War Graves at Ypres & The Menin Gate
A personal journey to Ypres, The Menin Gate, Tyne Cott and the Battle Fields of the Great War.
Passchendale New Cemetery, Belgium
This film shows the Passchendaele New British Cemetery which is just over 10km north-east of Ieper on the S'Graventafelstraat, a road leading from St Jan to Passendale.
During my tour of Flanders, I arrived quite late at the cemetery and parked my motorhome and spent the nigh there. I know that this would bother some people, I don't believe in ghosts but even if I did, I can't see what harm they would do me. The film was made quite early in the rmorning.
This cemetery is on three different levels, with steps going from one level to another. For wheelchair access between the levels there are grassed ramps to the right of the cemetery, near the wall. Wheelchair users can enter the cemetery via a service entrance situated to the left of the main entrance.
The village of Passchendaele (Passendale in Flemish) is above all associated with the Third Battle of Ypres although it was close to the front throughout the war. It was captured by the Germans on 20 October 1914. At the end of the Third Battle of Ypres, it was taken by the Fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade on 6 November 1917. It was held by the Allies a little over five months when the Germans recaptured it only to change hands once more on 29 September 1918 when Belgian forces took the village.
The New British Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields of Passchendaele and Langemarck. Almost all of the burials are from the autumn of 1917.
The cemetery now contains 2,101 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 1,600 of the graves are unidentified but there are special memorials to seven casualties believed to be buried among them.
The cemetery was designed by Charles Holden.
Ploegsteert 2015 - St-Yvon (HD via molette)
Cérémonie au cimetière militaire britannique Prowse Point, le 16 avril 2015.
Ré-ensevelissement de 6 soldats inconnus dont 2 du Lancaster Fusiliers et 2 du King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.
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Auteur Luc Pottiez
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YPRES
Ypres- miasto w Belgii, w Zachodniej Flandrii.Katastrofalna dla miasta okazała się I wojna światowa, gdy okolice Ypres były miejscem czterech wielkich bitew. Podczas pierwszej bitwy (19 października–22 listopada 1914) Brytyjczycy przejęli miasto z rąk Niemców. W drugiej bitwie (22 kwietnia–25 maja 1915) Niemcy po raz pierwszy użyli chloru jako bojowego środka trującego. Podczas trzeciej bitwy (31 lipca–6 listopada 1917) po raz pierwszy na froncie zachodnim użyto gazu musztardowego, od nazwy miasta nazywanego iperytem. W czasie czwartej bitwy (9–29 kwietnia 1918) generał Ludendorff podjął ostatnią próbę zdobycia miasta i przerwania frontu.
Całkowicie zrujnowane miasto po wojnie zostało odbudowane.
Obecnie nosi tytuł miasta pokoju i utrzymuje bliskie stosunki z japońską Hiroszimą, która doznała podobnych zniszczeń.
Dla upamiętnienia poległych w bitwach pod Ypres, w 1927 zbudowano Bramę Pamięci i od tamtej pory codziennie o godz. 20-tej odbywa się tam uroczystość upamiętniająca ofiary,z udziałem organizacji kombatanckich z krajów biorących udział w bitwach...rodzin poległych oraz polityków. W dniu gdy tam byłem w ceremonii brał udział i składał wieniec Gubernator generalny Australii.
Na całej wewnętrznej i zewnętrznej powierzchni wyryte są nazwiska zaginionych ,którzy nie są pochowani na żadnym z licznych okolicznych cmentarzy wojskowych. Symbolem ofiar są czerwone maki wszechobecne w tamtych okolicach.
Passchendaele Ypres Railway Dugouts Cemetery March 2017
Another film of our Battlefields Tour around Ypres and surrounding area in March 2017. Hope you enjoy the film.
Battle of the Menin Road Ridge
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The Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, sometimes called Battle of the Menin Road, was the third British general attack of the Third Battle of Ypres in the First World War.The battle took place from 20–25 September 1917, in the Ypres Salient in Flanders on the Western Front.During the pause in Allied general attacks between late August and 20 September, the British changed some infantry tactics, by adopting the leap-frog method of advance, when waves of infantry stopped once they reached their objective then consolidated the ground, while other waves passed through the objective to attack the next one and the earlier waves became the tactical reserve.General adoption of the method was made possible when more artillery was brought into the salient and by increasing the number of aircraft involved in close air support of the attackers and by specialising the tasks of air defence, contact-patrol, counter-attack patrol, artillery observation and ground-attack.
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Tyne Cot Commonwealth Military Cemetery, near Ipern, Belgium
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Tyne Cot Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth Military Cemetery in the world. It is located 9 Kms north-east of Ieper and is well signposted.
'Tyne Cot' or 'Tyne Cottage' was the name given by the Northumberland Fusiliers to a barn which stood near the level crossing on the Passchendaele-Broodseinde road. The barn, which had become the centre of five or six German blockhouses, or pill-boxes, was captured by the 3rd Australian Division on 4 October 1917, in the advance on Passchendaele.
One of these pill-boxes was unusually large and was used as an advanced dressing station after its capture. From 6 October to the end of March 1918, 343 graves were made, on two sides of it, by the 50th (Northumbrian) and 33rd Divisions, and by two Canadian units. The cemetery was in German hands again from 13 April to 28 September, when it was finally recaptured, with Passchendaele, by the Belgian Army.
The cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when remains were brought in from the battlefields of Passchendaele and Langemarck, and from a few small burial grounds, including the following:
IBERIAN SOUTH CEMETERY and IBERIAN TRENCH CEMETERY, LANGEMARCK, 1,200 metres North of Frezenberg, close to a farm called by the Army Iberian. These contained the graves of 30 soldiers from the United Kingdom who fell in August-September, 1917, and March, 1918.
KINK CORNER CEMETERY, ZONNEBEKE, on the road to Frezenberg, containing the graves of 14 soldiers from the United Kingdom, nine from Canada and nine from Australia, who fell in September-November, 1917.
LEVI COTTAGE CEMETERY, ZONNEBEKE, near the road to Langemarck, containing the graves of ten soldiers from the United Kingdom, eight from Canada and three from Australia, who fell in September-November, 1917.
OOSTNIEUWKERKE GERMAN CEMETERY, in the village of Oostnieuwkerke, containing the graves of two soldiers from the United Kingdom.
PRAET-BOSCH GERMAN CEMETERY, VLADSLOO, in the forest on the road from Kortewilde to Leke. Here were buried six officers of the R.F.C. and R.A.F. who fell in 1917-18.
STADEN GERMAN CEMETERY, on the South-East side of the road to Stadenberg, containing the graves of 14 soldiers from the United Kingdom and ten from Canada who fell in 1915-1917.
WATERLOO FARM CEMETERY, PASSCHENDAELE, 650 metres North-East of
's Gravenstafel, containing the graves of ten soldiers from Canada, seven from the United Kingdom and two from New Zealand, who fell in 1917-18.
ZONNEBEKE BRITISH CEMETERY No.2, on the road between Zonnebeke and Broodseinde, in which the Germans buried 18 men of the 2nd Buffs and 20 of the 3rd Royal Fusiliers who fell in April, 1915.
At the suggestion of King George V, who visited the cemetery in 1922, the Cross of Sacrifice was placed on the original large pill-box. There are three other pill-boxes in the cemetery.
There are now 11,956 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in Tyne Cot Cemetery. 8,369 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to more than 80 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 20 casualties whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. There are 4 German burials, 3 being unidentified.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.
The TYNE COT MEMORIAL forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery and commemorates nearly 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom and New Zealand who died in the Ypres Salient after 16 August 1917 and whose graves are not known. The memorial stands close to the farthest point in Belgium reached by Commonwealth forces in the First World War until the final advance to victory.
The memorial was designed by Sir Herbert Baker with sculpture by F V Blundstone.
Information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Ypres 1917
Sites of the 3rd Battle of Ypres 100 years on.
ANZAC DAY 2013 - 25 April, ( POLYGONWOOD - CEMETERY- BELGUIM )
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Driving on the Menin Road
Just a long straight road. Simply goes from Ypres (Ieper) to Menin (Menen) in Belgium. Pretty boring really.
Unless your Grandfather fought in the first World War, be he German, British, French, Belgian, Indian, Canadian or any of the rest who contested this ground so hard.
When you decide that this clip is too boring to watch. look up 'the Menin Road', and think about what happened here between 1914 and 1918.
Prowse Point military cemetery (1914-1918) - Ploegsteert (Belgium)
One of the most beautiful CWGC cemeteries in the Ypres Salient (Flanders - Belgium).
Location Information:
Prowse Point Military Cemetery is located 11.5 Kms south of Ieper town centre, on a road leading from the Rijselseweg N365, which connects Ieper to Wijtschate, Mesen, Ploegsteert and on to Armentieres. From Ieper town centre the Rijselsestraat 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. 2 Kms after Mesen lies the left hand turning onto Rue St.Yvon. The cemetery is located 600 metres along this road on the right hand side.
Historical Information:
This cemetery is unique on the Salient for being named after an individual. It is the site of the stand by the 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment and the 1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry in October 1914, which featured the heroism of a Major Charles Prowse - later as Brigadier-General C.B. Prowse, DSO (Somerset Light Infantry), he would be killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, whilst commanding the 11th Infantry Brigade (he is buried in Louvencourt Military Cemetery).
The cemetery was begun by the 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers and the 1st Royal Warwicks, and was used from November 1914 to April 1918.
It contains 225 Commonwealth burials of the First World War.
The cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw.
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Tour of the Ramparts including the Menin Gate, Ieper, Belgium
This tour starts on the southern edge of the 17th Century Vauban Ramparts in Ieper, Belgium, moving slowly around the city to the east and up to the Menin Gate.
Personally, a tour of the ramparts should be on any visitor to Iepers itineray. The weather wasn't brilliant during my visit but the views are amazing and the scale sometimes breath taking.
And then you have the Menin Gate. I have visited the Menin Gate several times, and had the privilege to see the Last Post ceremony 4 times (another must do experience). But when you visit, make a point of climbing the stairs (or go up the ramp on the western side) and take in the whole memorial. It is worth it.
[Teaser] Ieper, 22 April 1915
Follow a drone as it follows the trenches of Ieper at various angles. Ieper was the centre of intense and sustained battles and the first place where chemical weapons were widely used in April 1915.
Ypres walk through. August 2013
Walking from our B & B to the Menin Gate
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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WW2 Memorial Cemetery Somewhere In The Belgian Countryside
A quick walk through a World War 2 memorial cemetery somewhere between Bayeux, France and the Belgian border.
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Ypres - Menin Gate - Parade Nov 11 2009
Remembering Ieper
A hundred years ago, mankind saw the advent of large scale toxic chemical agents employed in warfare. With the introduction of such heinous means of warfare, the rules of engagement and ethic degradation in military conflicts among nation states changed to the worse. Though World War I was mainly confined to Europe and chemical warfare was but one facet among other military means first used, the implications reached to all continents and stretched into the succeeding century.
The film Remembering Ieper was produced by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) as part of an event to mark the centenary of the first large-scale use of chemical weapons on 21 April 2015 in Ieper, Belgium.
For more information about the OPCW please visit opcw.org
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