Hill 60, Ieper (Ypres) Belgium
Hill 60, so named because of the map contour around the site, is located about 2 miles south east of Ieper. In the Great War, its height and location made it a focus of fighting on the Ypres Salient.
Of particular note, although not so clear in this 2D video, is the current undulating nature of the preserved Hill 60 site. It is full of concrete bunkers but also vast areas of mine and artillery craters.
No doubt, Hill 60 was both an important location to hold militarily but a damned awful place to hold and live.
Corrections to commentary:
1. I keep saying Hill 62!! This is Hill 60.
2. I have been advised by Simon (Belgium) that the large above ground bunker seen in this video is Aussie made not German.
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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.
World War 1: In Flanders Fields footage (Ypres, Ieper - Belgium)
This clip features footage of World War I. Source: 'In Flanders Fields Museum', Ypres, western Belgium.
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.
Source: Wikipedia
Belgium: A Tribute to World War 1 Travel Guide
I was invited on a press trip by Visit Flanders tourism office, to witness the 100 year anniversary of World War 1. This video shares the highlights of the trip to the small towns of Ypres and Zonnebeke where some of the most gruesome battles of the war took place.
Locations:
In Flanders Field Museum
Tyne Cot Cemetery
Memorial Museum of Passchendaele
Menin Gate
Last Post Ceremony
Kazematten Brewery
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Ypres/Ieper - Battlefield tour
Visit to Ypres (Ieper) in Belgium in March 2013 to one of the most devastating battlefields of the Great War (World War I).
Sanctuary Wood #Trenches #Hill 62 #WW1 #Flanders
Take a walk around a World War One Trench system. Read the harrowing story of the merciless German attack on British Troops here
Any questions, please contact right away. Kindly, Luke Woods
Sanctuary Wood & Hooge Crater
An aerial film of the Sanctuary wood and Hooge crater areas of the Ypres salient.
Trench of Death
A walk along the Trench of Death, Dixmuide, Belgium. This was a totally mental position that went right up to the German lines - nowadays preserved using concrete sandbags....
This is a little tour of the remains of the British Trenches in Ypres, Belgium from WW1.
This is a short tour around the remains of British Trenches in Ypres from WW1. I made this video whilst I was in Belgium, hope you like it!
Tours of WW1 - Essex dressing station - In Flanders Fields
This is believed to be the location where Major John McCrae wrote his famous poem In Flanders Fields after burying a friend, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, on 3rd May 1915.
Lieutenant Helmer was buried in the burial plot in the vicinity of Essex Farm at that time, but his grave was subsequently lost.
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Canadian World War I Sites, Somme & Ieper
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1917: Yorkshire Trench. Ypres Salient, Belgium. Under Attack Dramatisation
The reconstructed Yorkshire Trench on the Ypres/Ieper salient of the First World War Western Front. Revisited by the war for two minutes. Battle sounds from All Quiet on the Western Front Shot with Panasonic Lumix, SZ1
WW1 trenches in Belgium, Menin Road
This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
Flanders fields WW1 Trenches
4:30 Dodengang Musuem and old warfront.
06:45 Ijzertoren
Here i'm riding along the river IJzer in Flanders Belgium, where i pass WW1 trenches and museum with also the Ijzertoren and Pax memorial.
If you want to see other ww1 places in that area feel free to leave a comment and i will try and make a video of it.
Hitler's Trenches Bayern Wald WW1
Adolf Hitler served here in WW1 (World War 1) at Bayernwald in Belgium and won the Iron Cross for helping to rescue a German officer who had stupidly wandered out of the cover of the forest and was shot at by British soldiers opposite him. Bayernwald means Bavarian wood (like wold or weald in the names of English places eg Southwold), as the germans here were from Bavaria, far from home and under the cool, grey skies of the north with very heavy rain which would mean living outside would be a misery.
Address:
Voormezelestraat, 8950 Heuvelland, Belgium
WARNING!
You must buy a ticket from the tourist office with a barcode that you insert into the slot in the gate. You cannot access the site without the ticket. There is a huge fence with barbed wire and a fortress like turnstile gate. When you insert your ticket, the gate will only turn once. When I did it, my 11 year old daughter, trying to be helpful, turned the gate before I walked in. It unfortunately counted as an entry and when I reinserted my ticket, it was null and void. We drove 10 minutes back to the tourist office and the helpful Belgian man gave us replacement tickets. He also told us that there is a buzzer on the gate which we could have used to speak to him! It would have been useful if the buzzer had a sign such as Press here for help!
See below for the opening hours and location of the tourist office. It has a lunch break when it is shut.
Search on google maps for the latest information using this:
Toerisme Heuvelland, Polenlaan, Heuvelland, Belgium
8950, Polenlaan 1, 8956 Heuvelland, Belgium
heuvelland.be
+32 57 45 04 55
Saturday
9:30am–5pm
Sunday
10am–12pm
Monday
9am–12pm
1–5pm
Tuesday
9am–12pm
1–5pm
Wednesday
9am–12pm
1–5pm
Thursday
9am–12pm
1–5pm
Friday
9am–12pm
1–5pm
These trenches can easily be combined with other nearby interesting places.
An excellent chocolate shop. The Praline Paleis. Nearby.
Abelestationsplein 14, 8970 Poperinge, Belgium
Hill 62. Sanctuary Wood. British trenches with a museum and a restaurant. Original, and now very bad, condition.
Canadalaan 26, 8902 Ieper, Belgium.
This WWI Explosion Left a Hole 70 Feet Deep | Lochnagar Crater
A mine explosion in France during World War I left a crater 70ft (21m) deep and 330 ft (100 m) wide.
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World War One 1914 to 1918 Images. Centenary of the start of the Great War
Presents: World War One 1914 to 1918 Images. A prequel to our series of World War One quizzes which can be found at:
All Photos used are from:
gravestone 1
Image courtesy of Poppies On A British War Memorial by Stuart Miles / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Gravestone 2
Image courtesy of In Memoriam by Simon Howden / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Gravestone 3
Image courtesy of by papaija2008 / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
and
Great War Primary Document Archive: Photos of the Great War - gwpda.org/photos
01478 = Flight Lieutenant C. H. Collet, who bombed the Zeppelin hangars at Dusseldorf, Germany
00023 = British Highland regiments marching through Boulogne, France
00070 = British soldiers bringing in a group of German prisoners
00073 = British artillery position
0093 = British troops resting in support trench
0095 = Second wave of British troops leaving trenches on the Somme
0098 = British soldiers searching German prisoners
0101 = American First Division troops bringing in German prisoners
0150 = British field artillery crossing dry canal bed
00452 = British reinforcements digging trenches along the Italian front
00627 = Funeral services for Lusitania victims at Queenstown, Ireland
00631 = British field hospital bombed by German aircraft
00720 = British patrol moving through ruined village
00488 = British marines landed on the beach at Gallipoli
00569 = US troops on the docks at Liverpool, England
01098 = Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand
00844 = King George V of England with General Sir William Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff
00590 = King George V inspecting troops
01901 = First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill with Field Marshal Sir John French
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BOOK REVIEW,MAJOR AND MRS HOLTS BATTLEFIELD GUIDE,YPRES SALIENT WITH MAP
BY TONI AND VALMAI HOLT,PUB LEO COOPER,1997..REPRINT 1999
Belgium Under German Occupation During WW1 I THE GREAT WAR On The Road
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Indy talks to Peter Verplancke about Belgium during World War 1, in particular the German occupation policies.
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WWPilgrims Trip to Battlefield Sites of World War I and II
Myself and a good friend visited some battlefield sites of the Western Front in December 2008. To see the preserved trenches at Hill 62 and Vimy Ridge, to hear The Last Post at the Menin Gate, to stand in the foxholes in the Ardennes Forest, to see the monuments and countless cemetaries was fascinating yet sobering. We want to share our memories and remember those who sacrificed themselves for preserving our freedom.