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A new display shines a light on the maintenance and restoration of Belgium’s Commonwealth War Cemeteries

A century of caring is a new display at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Ieper Information Centre, highlighting 100 years of work by the Commission in Belgium. Louise Dujardin and Sarah Camerlynck The display is launched in conjunction with a large-scale renovation project on 24 Commonwealth cemeteries in the Ypres Salient, supported by a grant from the Flemish ...

New-Zealand cyclists gather to remember WW1 Cyclist Corps

A group of cyclists will travel from New Zealand to the Spring Classics of Flanders and northern France in a special tour to remember the service and sacrifice of the New-Zealand Cyclist Corps (NZCC). The group includes family members of the NZCC soldiers who fought and died in Belgium. The tour is built around the Ronde van Vlaanderen and the Paris Roubaix and will include a special ...

Ieper: Last Post - 17/04

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post under the Menin Gate on Tuesday, 17 April 2018 at 8.00 PM. During this ceremony wreaths were laid by: Thomas Hassall Anglican ...

Ieper: Last Post - 23/04

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post under the Menin Gate on Tuesday, 17 April 2018 at 8.00 PM. During this ceremony wreaths were laid by: England Rugby Football Union Prince Alfred College (Aus) Lake Joondalup Baptist College (Aus) Christmas Island France group New Zealand Military Historical Society Royal Irish Rangers Veterans Youth of Canada /Jeunes ...  

Zuidschote: Commemorating the first gas attack - 22/04

Please find below some pictures of the 103th anniversary of the first gas attack on 22 April 1915. The ceremony started with a service in the church of Zuidschote. Afterwards flowers were laid at the different monuments at Zuidschote and ...  

Ieper: Last Post - 16/04

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post under the Menin Gate on Monday, 16 April 2018 at 8.00 PM. During this ceremony wreaths were laid by: Drew family Denning ...

Ieper: Rededication for 2 Australian soldiers (Frank Mahieu) - 21/04

Ieper - 21 April 2018 at Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Ieper. "They are not dead: not even broken, Only their dust has gone back home to the earth For they, the essential they, shall have rebirth Whenever a word of them is spoken" (Dame Mary Gilmore) Headstone Rededication ceremony for Pte. Cecil Henry Burns and for Driver Henry Martin Comerford. These two Australian ...

Lecture: Disputed earth - Geology and trench warfare

DISPUTED EARTH GEOLOGY AND TRENCH WARFARE 22-02-2018 Onder de titel "Gateways to the First World War" organiseren het In Flanders Fields Museum en de Universiteit van Kent (School of History) in het academiejaar 2017-2018 een reeks van acht seminars. De lezing vindt plaats op donderdag 22 april 2018 om 19u15 in het Museumcafé. Donderdag 22 februari 2018 om ...

Restoring CWGC Artillery Wood Cemetery 100 years after First World War

Flemish Minister-President Bourgeois subsidizes 3.9 million euro for restoration of 24 cemeteries  On 7 June 2017 Geert Bourgeois, Flemish Minister-President and Flemish Minister for Immovable Heritage,  and, Sir Tim Laurence, Vice-Chairman of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) signed a multi-annual premium agreement for the restoration work on 24 CWGC Military ...

Ieper: Funeral Service for Capt. H. Walker and 6 unknown soldiers - 18/04

Op 18 April 2018 om 10.30u werd Capt. Henry John Innes Walker samen met 6 andere onbekende Britse soldaten te rusten gelegd op New Irish Farm Cemetery, te St. Jan, Ieper. Onder de 5 onbekenden ook een andere soldaat van Walkers' Regiment, The Warwickshire Rgt. De plechtigheid werd o.a. bijgewoond door familileden van Capt. Walker uit Niew Zeeland, de Nieuw Zeelandse Ambassadeur Mr. ...

Zonnebeke: Exhibitions commemorate the final year of the Great War - 18/04

EXHIBITIONS IN ZONNEBEKE, HEUVELLAND AND WAREGEM COMMEMORATHE LAST YEAR OF THE GREAT WAR One hundred years after the end of WWI, the municipalities of Zonnebeke, Heuvelland and Waregem commemorate the last year of the Great War with the project '1918 - The Final Offensive'. Here, three temporary exhibitions highlight different aspects of the last year of the war. From Saturday 21 ...

New Zealand’s Minister of Defence will visit the WW1 battlefields in Belgium

On 14 February 2018, Valentine’s Day, New Zealand’s Minister of Defence will visit the WW1 battlefields in Belgium. There will be a short ceremony at Buttes New British Cemetery (Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke) at 5.00 pm. Public and press are welcome. At 8.00 pm the Minister will attend the Last Post Service at the Menin Gate. Buttes New British has been chosen because the only ...

Ploegsteert: Last Post - 06/04

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post ceremony at the Ploegsteert Memorial on Friday, 6 April 2018. The Last Post at Ploegsteert takes place every first Friday of the month at ...

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