Poperinge Military Cemetery
Visit to Pvt Marmaduke Huitson grave
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.
Poperinghe New Military Cemetery
CWGC cemetery Poperinghe New Military Cemetery
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.
Gunners Farm Military Cemetery & Calvaire (Essex) Military Cemetery 1914 - 1918
Recorded on the 16th of March 2014 at Ploegsteert (Belgium).
Pont du Hem Military Cemetery
0:35 Canadian Regiment Unknown Soldier
1:35 Pvt G.M. Wilkinson
1:50 Vzf Heinrich Brockerhof
2:35 Vzf Max Leinhos
4:20 Sikh Graves
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
Buttes CWGC Cemetery, July 2009
a view of Buttes New British Cemetery from on the top of the Butte, including the Australian memorial.
The CWGC Bailleul Communal Cemetery & Extension, Bailleul, France.
Apart from being a lovely setting, I've uploaded this old video because it was slightly unusual. The CWGC Bailleul Communal Cemetery & Extension had the quite unique (for me anyway) set up with German headstones located between Commonwealth ones. It is quite normal to find German headstones (and other Allied ones) in Connonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries but they are usually grouped together and on one side of the cemetery.
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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Prowse Point Cemetery 1914 - 1918
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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
Burial for remains of WWII German soldier found in bunker
(5 Jun 2009)
La Cambe, France
1. Wide of German military cemetery with dug up grave in foreground
2. German veterans standing around grave
3. Close-up of veterans
4. Wide of soldier approaching grave holding box containing remains of a German soldier
5. Soldier holding box approaching grave, kneeling and positioning box over grave
6. Close-up of priest during service
7. Wide of soldiers beginning to lower box into grave
8. Close-up of box disappearing into grave
9. Wide of grave site, UPSOUND of trumpet being played
10. Close-up of trumpet player, UPSOUND of trumpet being played
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Rainer Ruff, General Secretary of the German Wargraves Commission:
The remains were found a couple of weeks ago nearby the coast and that is very normal that we find somewhere remains of the World War II, and still, not in this region, but in other regions, World War I, too. Mostly when they build houses, when they construct roads.
12. Medium of woman laying flowers at grave
13. Top shot of box in grave and flowers
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Rainer Ruff, General Secretary of the German Wargraves Commission:
Maybe we will have some information. They have found a special plate, but it is hard to read it. And we just try to get the name of the remains.
Grandcamp Maisy, France
15. Pan of Battery of Maisy
16. Pan of bunkers
17. Trenches where remains were found
STORYLINE:
The remains of a German soldier discovered last year were laid to rest on Friday, as American and German World War II veterans paid respects to their fallen comrades at a cemetery near a D-Day landing site.
The veterans had gathered to honour those who perished in the epochal World War II beach landings, a day before an international commemoration nearby, led by US President Barack Obama, to mark 65 years since Allied forces landed on Normandy's shores.
After most visitors to the ceremony at the cemetery in La Cambe left on Friday, a few dozen stayed on in a corner of the cemetery, where a German pastor and a few soldiers buried the remains of a German soldier discovered last
year.
A Frenchman conducting construction work at the German battery at Grandcamp Maisy, 5 miles (8 kilometres) away, came
across first a gun and then the remains, which have yet to be identified.
Generations have passed, but remnants of the war continue to surface.
Rainer Ruff, General Secretary of the German Wargraves Commission, said such discoveries are common in the area.
Grandcamp Maisy formed a part of the Atlantic Wall, the German defences against D-Day in 1944.
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WW1 CEMETERIES.wmv
A small selection of the 940 commonwealth war cemeteries which can be found at ww1cemeteries.com
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
Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck, Northern France.
This was our second visit here, April 2015. Originally we placed a photo of Frank Fitness (a relation) in April 2012 and was glad to see it was still there three years later.
The cemetery is very well kept, like all other Commonwealth War Graves. It is situated between Steenwerck and the Belgium border on the D77 road.
Dozinghem War Graves
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World War 1, The Ypres Salient 1914-18, war graves
Photographs from a recent trip around the Ypres Salient in Flanders, Belgium. This area was the scene of continuous fighting from 1914-18. The wet land made conditions appalling for troops stationed there. Many bodies of those killed were never recovered and their names are remembered on memorials and at the numerous war cemeteries. One very touching feature of the German cemeteries is the number of remembrance crosses left on German graves by English schoolchildren.
Spent all night trying to console the wounded. It was ghastly to see them lying there in the cold, cheerless outhouses, on bare stretchers with no blankets to cover their freezing limbs Chaplain Francis Gleeson, Royal Munster Fusiliers.
This movie is dedicated to my own grandfathers who took part between 1914-18: Pte JF Burke, BEF, 2nd Bttn Worcestershire Regiment (son of a Corkman) and Pioneer W Sleighholm, Royal Engineers.
Both lived long enough to see the start of the Second World War.
Opening Ceremony Colne Valley Cemetery
On 22 June 2016, after eight months of renovation, Colne Valley Cemetery reopened to the public by the CWGC. In attendance were several representatives, relatives but also one of the Peace Village groups, John's School. The pupils were asked to lay a rose at each headstone on the cemetery. Taking part in a ceremony like this provides especially young pupils a life long memory. It shows what a visit to the former battlefields is all about, remembrance...