Passchendaele WW1 Museum and Hill 62 Part 2 - Benelux Trip 16/2
In Part 2 we continue around the Passchendaele Museum and go to the Hill 62 museum, trenches left just as they were at the end of the war.
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The Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 in Zonnebeke is a Belgian museum devoted to the 1917 Battle of Passchendaele, where in 1917 in only 100 days, almost 500,000 men were killed for only eight kilometers gain of ground. (Wikipedia)
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Anzac Day 2017 | Ypres / Ieper
Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations and the contribution and suffering of all those who have served. Observed on 25 April each year, Anzac Day was originally to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli against the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
In Ypres – Belgium, the ANZAC-Day Ceremony is held at the Menin Gate at 11 A.M. This memorial attracks many students from Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Some of them may even participate by playing music, holding flags or marching in the stud.
It's an emotional event that takes place at the Menin Gate.
The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium, dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are unknown. The memorial is located at the eastern exit of the town and marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and built and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the Menin Gate Memorial was unveiled on 24 July 1927. British and Commonwealth soldiers often passed through the Menenpoort (= Menin Gate) on their way to the front lines with some 300,000 of them being killed in the Ypres Salient. 90,000 of these soldiers have no known graves.
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The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium, dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are unknown. The memorial is located at the eastern exit of the town and marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and built and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the Menin Gate Memorial was unveiled on 24 July 1927.
Following the Menin Gate Memorial opening in 1927, the citizens of Ypres wanted to express their gratitude towards those who had given their lives for Belgium's freedom. Hence every evening at 20:00, buglers from the local fire brigade close the road which passes under the memorial and sound the Last Post Except for the occupation by theGermans in World War II when the daily ceremony was conducted at Brookwood Military Cemetery, in Surrey, England, this ceremony has been carried on uninterrupted since 2 July 1928. On the evening that Polish forces liberated Ypres in the Second World War, the ceremony was resumed at the Menin Gate despite the fact that heavy fighting was still taking place in other parts of the town.
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British Trenches Sanctuary Wood Hill 62 Ypres
British Trenches Sanctuary Wood Hill 62 Ypres.
World War 1 (WW1)
Waterlogged. It must have been horrendous to have spent several years there.
Address:
Canadalaan 26, 8902 Ieper, Belgium
The German trenches at Bayernwald very close by are much better, but they were recently restored to their original condition, so it is probably not a fair comparison. Watch it below:
Read the text in the video above for important information about how you can enter the site.
Address:
Voormezelestraat, 8950 Heuvelland, Belgium
An excellent chocolate shop. The Praline Paleis. Nearby.
Abelestationsplein 14, 8970 Poperinge, Belgium
boesinghe - the forgotten battlefield WW1 trenches - belgium - 2000
VISITED THESE WW1 TRENCHES IN 2000.THEY ARE NOW HIDDEN FOREVER I BELIEVE BY A BRAND NEW INDUSTRIAL ESTATE.THESE HALF A DOZEN OR SO PICTURES ARE SCANS OF PHOTOS I TOOK ( PRE DIGITAL ) NOT THE BEST QUALITY BUT A SNAPSHOT IN TIME . A HISTORY OF THE SITE IS BELOW
After the last shell had fallen in 1918, the ground at Boesinghe soon became forgotten and abandoned. No houses were built on the area of the front lines east of the canal, and the fields were used for pasture. In the late 1990s the ground passed into the hands of developers, factory sites were planned and construction began. A group of local historians and archaeologists, called The Diggers, realised what might lie just below the surface and obtained a licence to work on the site. The result was an amazing survey of a section of the Western Front battlefields, which had never been attempted before.
The result was an amazing survey of a section of the Western Front battlefields, which had never been attempted before.
During the course of their work whole trench systems were unearthed, dugouts entered and every artefact connected with life at the front was uncovered. In the process the remains of more than 120 World War One soldiers were also found; British, French and German. None were ever identified, which is hardly surprising given the nature of the battlefield at Boesinghe and the fact that many were found in No Man's Land itself.
Soon the battlefield at Boesinghe will be completely covered in new buildings, and the trenches just below the surface lost forever. However, the work of The Diggers has given an insight into a part of the line that was typical of the British sector of the Western Front, and the life experienced by the average soldier in the front line.
WW1 Ceremony at FREZENBERG near Zonnebeke and Ieper
20170819 - Cérémonie commémorative au Monument Écossais au Frezenberg - Zonnebeke - Belgique.
German Command Post Bunker (WWI) Zandvoorde, Belgium
This video looks at a 1916 German Bunker located close to the Western Front front lines of World War One.
Like many German bunkers it was built to last and still stands after 90 years. This bunker is maintained by the local tourist authority in Zandvoorde.
The 'Hitler' graffiti seen in the clip was probably a recent addition to the bunker. In view of the misspelling ('Hilter') and the fact it is a World War One bunker doesn't say much for the idiot who put it there.
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The idea behind Video History Today is to give schools the raw material to make mini-documentaries and video essays on historical subjects.
Initial packages focus on World War I (Somme and Ieper areas), The Holocaust, the American Civil War and D-Day & Normandy 1944.
Battle Of Ypres DVD Trailer
This is a trailer for Battle Of Ypres DVD. To buy this DVD click here:
Released in its entirety for the first time ever, Battle Of Ypres is the original 1925 British Instructional Films documentary re-enacting key scenes from the notorious Battle Of Ypres in the actual battle trenches. The lengthy campaign was largely a murderous stalemate that perfectly demonstrated the horror and futility of war. A massive 1.7 million soldiers died in the attempt to capture the Belgian town and its environs over the length of a four year campaign.
The first, second, third and fourth battles of Ypres are all covered as are the key positions of Mesen, Hill 60 and the Passchendaele Ridge - the scene of prolonged and terrible carnage over a mere 900 metres of land.
A follow-up to the best-selling DVD The Battle Of The Somme (1916), as a representation of war Battle Of Ypres was not without its controversy; it arguably distorted the grimmer realities of conflict -- the trenchfoot, the maiming and death - into a noble recount of the superiority of the Allies. But, even in this light, Battle Of Ypres gives us a unique historical reading of one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the First World War.
The original silent documentary has had an all new soundtrack created from digitally enhanced recordings of the period as well as the addition of evocative sound effects. The release comes with two complimentary DVD Bonus Features :-
Ypres The Shell Shattered City Of Flanders, 1918 (16 mins)
Shots of the remnants of discernible landmarks amidst the rubbled ruins of Ypres and the ridges to theNorth and East of the town. Includes the main square and its Cloth Hall, St. Martin's Cathedral, The ChurchOf Saint Jacques and Shrapnel Corner.
Remembrance Day, Ypres 1922 (2 mins)
TOTAL RUNNING TIME - 105 Mins.
Canadian World War I Sites, Somme & Ieper
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Please take a look at Video History Today , the first web site to offer unique collections of re-usable original video clips designed for teachers and students.
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Initial packages focus on World War I (Somme and Ieper areas), The Holocaust, the American Civil War and D-Day & Normandy 1944.
Passchendaele WW1 Museum and Hill 62 Part 1 - Benelux Trip 16/1
We go to the wonderful Memorial Passchendaele Museum 1917 at Zonnebeke, and in Part 2, onto Hill 62.
This this part we take a trip round the museum and are privileged to go down the recently discovered tunnels under the church at Zonnebeke, which are only open to the public until November 2017 after which, they will be closed for good.
For more info:
The Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 in Zonnebeke is a Belgian museum devoted to the 1917 Battle of Passchendaele, where in 1917 in only 100 days, almost 500,000 men were killed for only eight kilometers gain of ground. (Wikipedia)
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Ypres, Belgium 2018
From Dover to Dunkirk, then through France to Belgium where we drove to Ypres, saw the Menin Gate War Memorial to the fallen with no known graves, the 8pm Last Post by the Scottish Highlanders, next day to Passchendaele, and to the hugely emotional Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Cemetery, join us as we go on a journey of personal discovery and explore our own family history from the front line of Flanders Fields in the Great War m/
24 Regt RLC, Ypres parade 11 Nov 2011.m4v
Armistice parade at the Menin gate 11/11/2011
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Take a walk around a World War One Trench system. Read the harrowing story of the merciless German attack on British Troops here
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The Importance of Visiting War Graves for Europeans
Battlefield Tours (July 1997)
The 'Last Post' is played in Ypres at 8pm every evening to honour soldiers who gave their lives in Flanders during the First World War. In Belgium and France a new industry is increasingly gaining popularity - tours of war graves.
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Muriel Nottall, on a four day battlefield and grave tour from England, lays a poppy at a grave of an unknown soldier 'because they are often neglected'. Tony Webb has brought his 83 year old father on the tour in order to show him his father's grave. Soldiers from all over the world died a usually unheroic death in the muddy trenches of these battlefields. A small ceremony is held by tour organiser, Joe Street, to commemorate the most unheroic soldiers of all; those 'shot at dawn' for desertion. They are remembered now mostly with pity. As the battlefield tour moves on to France, more commemorations are held for the Canadians who joined the allied attack at the Somme, where over 1 million lives were lost in just four and a half months.
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Sanctuary Wood Trench Museum
Holts Tours Head Battlefield Guide, Paul Reed, discusses what students get from visiting original trenches like these, at Sanctuary Wood Trench Museum near Ypres in Belgium.
Ceremony to mark start of Third Battle of Ypres
(31 Jul 2017) A gun salute at dusk in the Welsh memorial in Langemark, near Passchendaele in Belgium, marked the 100 year anniversary of the Passchendaele battle - one of the bloodiest fights of the First World War.
Officially, it is called the Third Battle of Ypres but known as Passchendaele, now as grim a symbol as any battleground ever remembered.
Monday marks the centennial of the start of the battle, which barely moved the frontline and thus became a metaphor for the folly of warfare as soldiers from as far away as New Zealand and Australia to Canada joined mostly British forces attempting to break Germany's stranglehold on the Western Front.
Davy Holt, a Scottish musician, on Monday sang a song he wrote in tribute to his great uncle who died at Passchendaele.
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The Ypres Salient Singers performing In Flanders Fields from John McGraig
Gunners Farm Military Cemetery & Calvaire (Essex) Military Cemetery 1914 - 1918
Recorded on the 16th of March 2014 at Ploegsteert (Belgium).