The remembrance ceremony at Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium on 31-07-2017.
Britse herdenking vanop de begraafplaats Tyne Cot in Zonnebeke, zoals uitgezonden door de VRT.
The remembrance ceremony at Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium.
Tyne Cot Cemetery: British Cemetery Belgium
Visit Belgium - 13/589 – Zonnebeke - World War 1, Dugout, Passchendaele & Tyne Cot Cemetery
A Belgian Challenge, I would like to visit all 589 Belgian Municipalities. In this video visit Zonnebeke, a municipality in the province of West-Flanders and known from the First World War.
We started our day in Zonnebeke with a visit to the church Dugout. This dugout is not reconstructed but completely authentic (it takes you back to 1917) and it’s open for public until the 10th of November 2017.
After this visit which took about 20 minutes, we visited the nearby Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917. The museum explains all about the First World War and it has a reconstructed dugout. Definitely worth a visit! The museum is located in a chateau park and in this park you can also find the Memorial Gardens of New Zealand, Canada, UK, Germany, USA and Belgium.
We ended the day at the Tyne Cot Cemetary, which is the largest Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in the world and the most important reminder of the Battle of Passchendaele from 1917.
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Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, Belgium
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.
Passiondale Tyne-cot War Cemetery Zonnebeke Belgium
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Tyne Cot Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium
Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium
Places of Flanders Fields (1) : Tyne Cot Cemetery
Tyne Cot Cemetery is the resting place of 11,954 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces. This is the largest number of burials contained in any Commonwealth cemetery of either the First or Second World War. It is the largest Commonwealth military cemetery in the world.
It is located near Ypres (Ieper, flemish name), Belgium, in Zonnebeke village.
Moving rollcall of the WW1 dead at Ypres: Tyne Cot Cemetery
A tour of the WW1 battlefields of the Somme and Ypres in June 2017 was rounded off by a visit to the Tyne Cot cemetery, centred on a captured enemy bunker. In the Visitor Centre there is a continuous and very moving rollcall of over 34,000 missing British and Commonwealth combatants engraved in the Memorial to the Missing. These are soldiers whose remains were never found or which were lost in the horrific chaos of the war. I present here just two minutes- worth of that rollcall. A further 56,000 missing soldiers from the Ypres salient battlefield are listed on three other memorials in the area. The Tyne Cot cemetery contains 11,954 burials of whom 8,367 are unidentified British or Commonwealth servicemen.
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Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, Belgium
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Souvenir: Tyne Cot Cemetery and Passandale (WWI), Belgium
Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium, Ypres 2017
Tyne Cot Cemetery - Passendale, Belgium
A pilgrimage of sorts, remembering those who fell in the Great War at Passendale.
Rollend door Vlaanderen 2017 - Tyne Cot Cemetery (Zonnebeke)
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Hun stop bij Tyne Cot Cemetery.
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Tyne Cot Commonwealth Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. The cemetery grounds were assigned to the United Kingdom in perpetuity by King Albert I of Belgium in recognition of the sacrifices made by the British Empire in the defence and liberation of Belgium during the war. It is the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any war. The cemetery and its surrounding memorial are located outside of Passendale, near Zonnebeke in Belgium.
The name Tyne Cot is said to come from the Northumberland Fusiliers seeing a resemblance between the German concrete pill boxes, which still stand in the middle of the cemetery, and typical Tyneside workers' cottages – Tyne cots.
The cemetery lies on a broad rise in the landscape which overlooks the surrounding countryside. As such, it was strategically important to both sides fighting in the area. The area was captured by the 3rd Australian Division and the New Zealand Division, on 4 October 1917 and two days later a cemetery for British and Canadian war dead was begun.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker. The land on which the cemetery stands is the free gift in perpetuity of the Belgian people to those who are honored here.
The stone wall surrounding the cemetery makes-up the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing. Upon completion of the Menin Gate memorial to the missing in Ypres, builders discovered it was not large enough to contain all the names as originally planned.
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Ypres 2018 Part 2 - Ypres CWGC Reservoir & Tyne Cot Cemeteries and Menin Gate
In part two of our Ypres adventure we visit the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Reservoir Cemetery in Ypres and then take a short journey out to Tyne Cot Cemetery. A rather sobering day for us all which really drive home just how many brave soldiers fought for our freedom between 1914 and 1917 in the Ypres Salient. It is fantastic that these places still exist and are so well looked after for all of us to pay our respects.
We round the day off by visiting the Menin Gate Last Post Ceremony which bears the names of 54,000 soldiers who died in The Great War who have no known grave.
Tyne Cot Cemetery: the Largest Commonwealth Cemetery in the World
With nearly 12,000 buried soldiers, Tyne Cot Cemetery in Flanders Fields, Belgium, is the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the world, a sad claim to fame. Dizzying rows of white gravestones line the grass, overlooking sweeping views of the bucolic countryside. The site’s surrounding wall is a Memorial to the Missing, bearing the names of nearly 35,000 men from the UK and New Zealand that were never found and presumed dead.
More information: flandersfields1418.com