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.
Ypres Reservoir Cemetery
2:00 Pioneer A.F. Bowden
10:00 Corporal G.F. Gray
17:05 Private E. Booth
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
Passchendaele Ypres Reservoir Cemetery. in March 2017.
One of our Flanders fields films of the Battlefields and Cemetery's of Ypres and Passchendaele. Lots more films to view. Hope you enjoy the film.
Ypres Town Military Cemetery Belgium, Roy Kevin Holloway
Country:Belgium
Locality:West-Vlaanderen
Identified Casualties:491Location Information
Ypres Town Cemetery Extension is located 1 kilometre east of Ieper town centre, on the Zonnebeekseweg (N332), connecting Ieper to Zonnebeke. From Ieper town centre the Zonnebeekseweg is located via Torhoutstraat and right onto Basculestraat. Basculestraat ends at a main cross roads and the first left hand turn is the Zonnebeekseweg (N345). The cemetery itself is located 300 metres along the Zonnebeekseweg on the right hand side of the road.
Visiting Information
Wheelchair access possible via main entrance.
Historical Information
From October 1914 to the summer of 1918, Ypres (now Ieper) formed the centre of a salient held by Commonwealth (and for a while French) forces. From April 1915, the town was bombarded and destroyed more completely than any other town of its size on the western front.
By the outbreak of the Second World War, Ypres had been completely rebuilt, but saw heavy fighting before it fell to the Germans on 29 May 1940.
YPRES TOWN CEMETERY, close to the Menin Gate, was used from October 1914 to May 1915, and once in 1918. The cemetery contains 145 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, grouped in plots among the civil graves.
The EXTENSION, on the east side of the town cemetery, was also begun in October 1914 and was used until April 1915, and on two further occasions in 1918. The extension was much increased after the Armistice when 367 graves were brought in from small cemeteries and isolated positions east and north of Ypres.
During and after the fighting of May 1940, three civilian hospitals in the town, (Hopital de Notre Dame, the Clinique des Soeurs Noires and the Red Cross Hospital in St. Aloisius School, D'Hondstraat), cared for the wounded, and those who died were buried in the Town Cemetery Extension. Others buried on the battlefield were later brought in by the Ypres town services.
There are now 598 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in the extension. 137 of the burials are unidentified and there are special memorials to 16 servicemen known or believed to be buried among them. Second World War burials number 43, of which 13 are unidentified.
The extension was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
Ypres and Tyne Cot Cemetery with John Cull
John Cull visits Ypres, Belgium the site of many battles in the Great War of 1914-1918. Also a visit to the Tyne Cot Cemetery and the Menin Gate
War Graves Ypres (1971)
Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing. Nr Passendale (Passchendaele) and Ypres, Belgium.
Panning shot of thousands of graves from the First World War. Distant church as seen through trees becomes long shot with graves in the foreground. Camera pans left to right round churchyard. Close-up of graves showing them huddled together. Various shots of graves. View of churchyard as seen through gateway. Close-up statue of soldier. Ditto.
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Ramparts Cemetery, Ypres
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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.
1919: Aerial views of Ypres
Aerial footage of Ypres filmed from an Astra dirigible piloted by Jacques Trolley de Prévaux in 1919. His cameraman was Lucien Le Saint.
YPRES AND TYNE COT WAR MEMORIAL
Visit Ypres and the Tyne Cot War Cemetery
Zonnebeke - Passchendaele '14-'18
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War Graves at Ypres & The Menin Gate
A personal journey to Ypres, The Menin Gate, Tyne Cott and the Battle Fields of the Great War.
Ypres 2018 Part 1 - The Journey to Belgium
A little off boat adventure to Ypres in Belgium, this is the first in a 4 part mini series which covers our whole adventure visiting WW1 trenches, tunnels, important buildings and of course pay our respects to the fallen at Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Tyne Cot and Vimy Ridge. Part one covers our journey from Luton down to the Euroshuttle and then through France and finally on to Ypres in Belgium. This series is a light-hearted affair with moments of sobriety.
Tyne Cot Cemetery: British Cemetery Belgium
1610 WW1 French Cemetery and Menin Gate
WW1 cemetery at Notre Dame de Lorette near Arras France. The largest for French war dead in France.
The 'Last Post' at Menin Gate, Ypres Belgium. Sounded every night of the year at 8:00pm.
Jenny's Grandad's WW1 History | Tyne Cot Cemetery | Euro Trip 2018 Pt19
Jenny visits the monument to The Hertfordshire Regiment, and talks about her Grandad's World War 1 history. We follow on with a visit to Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth Graves Commission site in the world.
Charles Chapman (1892-1965)
I have been investigating for ages where my Grandad was captured during WW1. He was a private in the Hertfordshire Regiment and joined in 1915.
Last year I discovered he was wounded and captured at The Third Battle of Ypres/Ieper on 31st July 1917 when nearly 75% of the other ranks were either killed, wounded or captured. 132 were missing of which one was my grandad Charles Chapman.
I have now found the German records (trying to translate some of the words) but what we have found is:
1. He was wounded and captured near Ypres/Ieper on 31st July 1917.
2. He was taken to a military hospital in Roesalare (Roulers) Belgium as he had a shrapnel wound in his left leg (can confirm he still suffered from that when I knew him).
3. He was taken to a POW camp in LIMBURG in November 1917.
Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves 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. It is the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any war. The cemetery and its surrounding memorial are located outside of Passchendale, near Zonnebeke in Belgium.
The name Tyne Cot is said to come from the Northumberland Fusiliers, seeing a resemblance between the many German concrete pill boxes on this site and typical Tyneside workers' cottages (Tyne cots). (Wikipedia)
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Souvenir: Tyne Cot Cemetery and Passandale (WWI), Belgium
Tyne Cot - Passchendaele
A short video about the Tyne Cot cemetery at the 2017 Passchendaele centenary commemorations voiced by Prince Charles.