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Cancellation of Anzac Day 2020 services

MESSAGE FROM THE AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND AMBASSADORS Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 (Coronavirus), we regret to inform you that public Anzac Day services in Belgium are cancelled this year. The Australian and New Zealand Embassies and the local communities in Zonnebeke, Ieper, Messines and Comines-Warneton have not taken this decision lightly. The cancellation is in line with ...

Cancellation Anzac Day commemoration in Zonnebeke

Given the current circumstances, the municipality of Zonnebeke, by mutual agreement of the Embassies of New Zealand and Australia to Belgium, decided to cancel the annual commemoration on Anzac Day, 25 April 2020. On 25 April 1915 the ‘Australian and New Zealand Army Corps’ (ANZAC) landed at Gallipoli for their first major battle of the First World War. Many lives were lost. For ...

17.09 - Presentation: Bearing the “dreadful ordeal with patience and gallantry”: Australians and the Great War

17.09 - Great Britain’s declaration of war against Germany after the latter’s invasion of Belgium in August 1914 elicited an enthusiastic response in Australia. Without any official request ...

27.09 - Ceremony of remembrance Carabiniers-Grenadiers

27.09 - The great allied offensive that started on 28 September 1918, ended the first World War. On that day the Belgians, under the command of King Albert I, together with British and French troops, ...

Ieper: Last Post - 08/03

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post under the Menin Gate on Sunday 8 March 2020 at 8.00 PM. During this ceremony, wreaths were laid by representatives of the Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service Choir and Dr Challoner's Grammar School.    

Ploegsteert: Last Post - 06/03

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post ceremony at the Ploegsteert Memorial on Friday 6 March 2020. The Last Post at Ploegsteert takes place every first Friday of the month at ...  

10.11 - Passchendaele Ceremony with torch parade

10.11 - 10 November 1917 marks the day that Canadian troops ended the Battle of Passchendaele by capturing the ruins of the village. On  November 10th the ‘Passchendaele Ceremony’ ...

Ieper: The reconstruction after the war: Feniks - 06/03

Ieper - “Reconstruction is more important than destruction and deserves to be remembered.” These words of the Belgian war reporter Rudi Vranckx fit perfectly with In Flanders Fields Museum’s temporay exhibition on the post-war reconstruction. Just like in Syria today, a hundred years ago large parts of Belgium were totally destroyed. It was only thanks to the local population that ...

Save Talbot House: Fundraising to keep historic WW1 soldiers club open

The Every Man’s Club In December 1915, British army chaplains founded a club in Poperinge, Flanders. Their goal was to create a home from home for over half a million weary and homesick troops that were in the area. Here, they could meet up with friends regardless of rank, have a cup of tea, write a letter home, enjoy a well-kept garden or play the piano. In the attic, a chapel ...

Flyboys – Exhibition prolonged

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Poperinge contains the largest number of airmen in Belgium. Ninety-four RFC and RAF members are buried in the cemetery. Their squadron was based in one of aerodromes in the neighbourhood of Poperinge. Flyboys, heroes in the sky but often victim of technical failures. Many crashes took place while taking off or landing. The exhibition focusses on ...

Ieper: British Ambassador Shearma visited the CWGC - 03/03

On Tuesday 3 March 2020 British Ambassador to Belgium Martin Shearman, the British Military Attaché Group Captain Justin Fowler and Military Commander of the Province of West-Flanders Philippe De Cock visited the offices of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Ieper to learn more about the organisation. The were received by Geert ...

Ieper: Last Post - 25/02

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post under the Menin Gate on Tuesday 25 February 2020 at 8.00 PM. During this ceremony, wreaths were laid by representatives of the Tower House School from London.  

Innovations Memorial Musem Passchendaele 1917 focus on experience, refelection and commemoration

The Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 in Zonnebeke will present some novelties to visitors from 1 February. An eye-catcher is the new family-friendly route where children can explore the museum with Maurice, the museum rat. But also the new diorama about the Belgian army, the new temporary exhibition and the renewed Commonwealth War Graves Commission and 'Passchendaele Archives' rooms ...

Ieper: Last Post - 03/02

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post under the Menin Gate on Monday 3 February 2020 at 8.00 PM. During this ceremony, wreaths were laid by representatives of the WW1 ...

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