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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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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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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Ramparts Cemetery, Ypres
A visit of remembrance.
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.
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Historically, the Menin Gate of Ypres was simply a crossing point over the moat and through the ramparts of the old town fortifications, on the road to the nearby town of Menin. It had a special significance for the troops though: it was from this spot that thousands of soldiers set off for the part of the Front called the Ypres Salient – many destined never to return.
This became the chosen site for one of the grandest and most haunting memorials of the Great War. The new Menin Gate was built in the form of a Roman triumphal arch, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield. During the inauguration ceremony, in July 1927, the Last Post was played for the first time by buglers from the Somerset Light Infantry. Since 1928, buglers from the Last Post Association have been playing the Last Post in this very spot every night at 8 p.m., regardless of the number of attendants or weather conditions.
The vast, white, Portland-stone walls of the Menin Gate are engraved with the names of nearly 90,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers lost on the field of battle but with no known graves; a son, a father, a brother. In fact the walls of the Menin Gate were not big enough: a further 34,957 names of the last and untraced are inscribed on the walls of Tyne Cot Cemetery to the east of Ypres.
WWI Cemetery and Trench Tours in Ypres, Belgium
Hi everyone! Here is the video we made while visiting the cemeteries and war memorials in Ypres, Belgium. Sorry that this was such a long video but I found everything so interesting and I just had to share it.
If you are interested in taking this tour in Ypres, here is the information: . We took the Grand Tour and it was absolutely amazing. Highly recommended! Thanks so much to our Tour Guide Christine, you were fantastic!
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Belgium's Ypres remembers the Great War
Walking around the cathedral in Ypres, it is hard to believe the area was razed to the ground during the Great War. It is also difficult to fathom some of the other atrocities that took place not far from here 100 years ago.
Our correspondent Sandor Zsiros is in the Belgian city as EU leaders prepare to hold a summit.
The city of Ypres is a symbol of the brutality of WWI. The fighting lasted four years here and this is the place where, for the first time in history, armies used poison gas ag...
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Rush to repair WWI cemeteries as centenary of Great War nears
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Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium - 15 April 2013
1. Mid of man re-engraving headstone
2. Wide of man working amongst rows of headstones
3. Close-up of headstone being re-engraved, lettering reading (English) A Soldier of the Great War
4. Wide of cemetery with rows of headstones
5. Various of man re-engraving headstone
6. Close-up of headstone being re-engraved, lettering reading (English) A Soldier of the Great War
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Edwards, Commonwealth War Graves Commission Works Services Supervisor:
What we don't want are visitors coming and then finding that they visit the headstone, the flowers aren't as they should be or there is damage on the stone.
8. Close-up of chipped headstone
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9. Man moving new headstone into position for engraving
10. Man placing new headstone on engraving machine
11. Close-up of drill engraving headstone
12. Headstone being engraving with lettering reading (English) An Australian Soldier of the Great War - Known Unto God
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Diaz, Commonwealth War Graves Commission Headstone Production Manager:
Stone is a natural product, it erodes. We are coming up to 100 years and the headstones have eroded. So we are going to replace those.
14. New headstone being engraved for Tyne Cot Cemetery
15. Various of crest being engraved on headstone for Lance Corporal CH Pretty, Connaught Rangers, who died on 3 August 1917
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Diaz, Commonwealth War Graves Headstone Production Manager:
A headstone is being attacked on six sides. The cemeteries, as you have visited them before, you will find that some of them have their own microclimate. Some create actual bowls of dust, swirls of wind and that erodes the faces.
Ypres, Belgium -15 April 2013
17. Wide of the Menin Gate
18. Various of panels inside the Gate engraved with names of soldiers who went missing before 15 August, 1917
19. Close-up of names, some barely legible due to weather erosion
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Ian Hussein, Commonwealth War Graves Commission Director for Northern Europe:
As you can see, the stone has deteriorated and it is becoming more and more difficult to actually read the names.
21. Close-up of Hussein's hand referring to stone, UPSOUND (English) Ian Hussein: As you get penetration of water inside, it is actually crumbling.
22. Close tilt down names damaged due to erosion
Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium - 15 April 2013
23. Wide exterior looking though the main entrance, large cross in distance
24. Wide of a man sanding headstones, large cross behind
25. Close-up of a headstone being sanded
26. Mid of a man sanding headstones
27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Edwards, Commonwealth War Graves Commission Works Services Supervisor:
It is one of those jobs where people come up and they'll tap you on the shoulder and they will thank you. Now there are very few jobs in the world that actually give you that sort of pride.
28. Mid of gardener working in front of a headstone
29. Wide of lines of gravestones, with worker driving cart
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Preparations to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War are gathering pace, and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), is redoubling its efforts to get the cemeteries of the Western Front ready in time for the 2014 deadline.
Using miniature electric drills, workers at the Tyne Cot cemetery in western Belgium are re-engraving five white headstones a day, inside a cemetery with thousands of markers.
They want to replace 5,000 in the next year.
A long winter stalled workers from starting the project at Tyne Cot, the biggest British Commonwealth cemetery in the world with 12-thousand graves.
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Best Attractions and Places to See in Ieper Ypres, Belgium
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Saint George's Memorial Church
Langemark Cemetery
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Remembrance Day Passchendaele 10 Nov 13 part 2
10 november 2013: Crest Farm - Passendale -- Zonnebeke
Crest Farm Canadian Memorial
This monument commemorates the commitment of the Canadian Corps which during the Third Ypres suffered heavy losses here, but eventually managed to take Passendale church though. Crest Farm is situated on high ground, offering an excellent view over the battlefield. Passendale church is barely 700 metres off. However, it took the Canadian troops almost 10 days to get that far. The road between the monument and the church is called Canadalaan. It was laid in the fifties.
Dit monument herdenkt de acties van het Canadese Corps dat tijdens de Derde Slag om Ieper hier zware verliezen leed, maar uiteindelijk toch de kerk van Passendale kon veroveren. Crest Farm is op een hoogte gelegen en biedt een goed overzicht van het slagveld. De kerk van Passendale is amper 700m verder, maar toch deden de Canadese troepen er bijna tien dagen over om tot in Passendale te geraken. De weg tussen het monument en de kerk is de Canadalaan. Deze werd in de jaren twintig aangelegd.
Location: Canadalaan, Passendale
Op 10 november 1917...... het gebeurde eindelijk! De entente troepen hebben Passendale veroverd en de Duitsers uit het dorp verdreven. Sinds 31 juli 1917, streden de Britten samen met de Canadezen, ANZACS en vele andere eenheden, om één doel te bereiken: de Duitsers uit Passendale verdrijven. Dit werd de Derde Slag om Ieper, beter gekend als de Slag om Passendale. De slag verliep niet vlekkeloos. Door de enorme beschietingen, werden de beken en grachten vernield en de hevige regen die nadien volgde, maakte de situatie niet al te best. Het slagveld werd één groot moeras. Loopgraven liepen onder water, laat staan de schuilplaatsen onder de grond (Dugouts) die continu leeg gepompt moesten worden. De slag leverde meer dan 500.000 slachtoffers op! Jaarlijks wordt het einde van de Slag om Passendale herdacht aan Crest Farm Canadian Memorial. Het monument staat op een heuveltje waar vroeger een boerderij stond genaamd Crest Farm. Het lag achter één van Duitslands hoofdlinies, de Flandern 2 stellung. Het monument herdenkt de zware verliezen van het Canadese leger tijdens de 700 meter lange mars tijdens de Slag om Passendale. Toch duurde deze mars tien dagen vooraleer het 6de Bataljon van de 2de Canadese Divisie de Sint-Audomaruskerk van Passendale kon bereiken. De herdenking omvatte zoals gewoonlijk een misviering, een fakkeltocht richting Passendale en zoveel meer. Jaarlijks worden ook vier verhalen van soldaten gedeeld. Dit jaar waren er uitzonderlijk maar drie personen die vochten tijdens de slag. De vierde persoon was Harold Harry Vormezeele, een adjudant van Belgisch afkomst die sneuvelde nabij Tessalit in Mali tijdens zijn dienst bij het Franse Vreemdenlegioen.
On November 10, 1917...... finally it happened. The Entente troops captured Passchendaele and chased the Germans out the village. Since July 31, 191 , the British fought with the Canadians, ANZACS and many other units, to capture Passchendaele and push back the Germans behind. This was the Third Battle of Ypres, better known as the Battle of Passchendaele. The battle was not smooth. Due to the massive shelling, rivers were destroyed and the heavy rain that followed made the situation not well. The battlefield was a big swamp. Trenches were underwater, let alone the shelters underground (dugouts) that had to be continuously pumped. The battle resulted in more than 500,000 casualties! Each year, the end of the Battle of Passchendaele is commemorated at the Crest Farm Canadian Memorial. The monument stands on a hill where once stood a farm called Crest Farm. It was behind one of Germany's main lines, the Flandern 2 Stellung. The monument commemorates the heavy losses of the Canadian Army during the 700 meter long march during the Battle of Passchendaele. Yet this march took ten days before the 6th Battalion of the 2nd Canadian Division reach the St. Audomaruschurch of Passchendaele. The commemoration contained as usual a holy mass celebration, a torchlight towards Passchendaele and much more. Every year, four stories of soldiers have be shared. This year there were only three soldiers who fought during the battle. The fourth person was Harold Harry Vormezeele, an adjutant of Belgian origin who was killed near Tessalit in Mali during his service with the French Foreign Legion .
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This fortnight's 5-minute Youtube video highlights the World War 1 destruction of the strategically important Belgian town of Ypres, its reconstruction and its commemorative function centred on the magnificent Menin Gate.
Belgium travel tip : Tyne Cot Commonwealth and Memorial to the Missing - Ypres #Belgium
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 Bonus Content - The Tunnels and Trenches
On our last day we visited the Canadian war memorial at Vimy Ridge and went down the tunnels and into the trenches. In this bonus edition we show the full version of our experience along with a very knowledgeable guide.
If you are interested in the history of the WW1 tunnels and trenches then this one is for you. We learned so much today!
Driving in Ieper
The plan was 'simple'. Drive to Ypres (Ieper in Dutch), drive through Ypres and go someplace else.
Road works turned it into a 'drive along every road in town' sightseeing event.