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Seminar by Matt Haultain-Gall

FIRST WORLD WAR SEMINARS ACADEMIC YEAR / ACADEMIEJAAR 2019-2020 THURSDAY 16 JANUARY 2020 Ieper, 7 p.m. Matt Haultain-Gall (Université Catholique de Louvain) ‘An elegy of mud, blood and darkness’: Australian war writing and the third battle of Ypres’ ‘The year 1917 had been one of disaster for our arms in all save the Messines attack’ wrote the ...

Burials on New Irish Farm Cemetery

Tuesday 5 November 2019 Burial service for two soldiers will be held at CWGC’s New Irish Farm Cemetery. A burial service will be held for an unknown soldier of the Essex Regiment and an unknown soldier of unknown regiment at 2.30pm at New Irish Farm Cemetery. The casualties were discovered in 2014 during building work near the site of the original Irish Farm Cemetery. The ...

Ieper: Last Post - 02/12

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post under the Menin Gate on Monday 2 December 2019 at 8.00 PM. During this ceremony wreaths were laid by: Veterans Affairs Canada ...

Ploegsteert: Last Post - 03/01

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post ceremony at the Ploegsteert Memorial on Friday 3 January 2020. The Last Post at Ploegsteert takes place every first Friday of the month at 19.00hrs.    

Ieper: Last Post - 01/01

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post under the Menin Gate on Wednesday 1 January 2020 at 8.00 PM.    

Ieper: Remembering the fallen soldiers from India (Frank Mahieu) - 12/11

Nov. 12th 2019, at Menin Gate ramparts, annual commemoration of the soldiers of India who fought and were killed in the Ypres Sailent. This memorial is dedicated to the 130 000 soldiers of the ...

Ieper: Last Post - 08/12

Ieper - Please find below some pictures of the Last Post under the Menin Gate on Sunday 8 December 2019 at 8.00 PM. The  Kensington Park School Choir participated in the ceremony.  

Last Post Association organises its 16th remembrance concert during this year’s Armistice commemorations

On Saturday 9 November and Monday 11 November 2019, the Last Post Association will be organising the 16th edition of its ‘The Great War Remembered’ concert, held in the unique setting of Ieper’s St. Martin’s Cathedral. The soloists for this edition are Luka Bloom, Maaike Cafmeyer and Kobe Sercu. Each year , the Last Post Association organises ‘The Great War ...

Simon Louagie is the new manager of Talbot House

"I am delighted to announce that Mr Simon Louagie has been appointed Talbot House Manager. Simon brings considerable experience and knowledge of tourism and World War commemoration. He also has a great belief in the values of the House and all that the place stands for. We wish him well in his new job. Simon succeeds Mr Raf Craenhals who has been our manager for the last eight years. ...

Ploegsteert: Last Post - 06/12

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post ceremony at the Ploegsteert Memorial on Friday 6 December 2019. The Last Post at Ploegsteert takes place every first Friday of the month at 19.00hrs.  

Ieper: Remembrance VIFF - 03/12

On Tuesday 3 December 2019, the Friends of the In Flanders Fields Museum organized a remembrance for Maria Vanassche and her young children Evrard and Antonia Laseure who were killed in Ieper on 3 December 1914 by shells that fell on the house of Doctor Dieryck. More information on what happened on 03/12/1914 by Annick Vandenbilcke and Piet Chielens of the In Flanders Fields ...

Seminar: Notes and Swearies

Notes and Swearies Blasphemy and Obscene Language 24/10/2019 Under the title "Gateways to the First World War", the In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School of History) present a series of eight seminars on Thursday evening, free and open to all. The four lectures in Ieper are scheduled at 7.15pm and take place in the reading room of the In Flanders Fields ...

Passendale: Commemoration of Armistice at Tyne Cot Cemetery - 11/11

Please find below a number of pictures of the international commemoration of Armistice at Tyne Cot British Cemetery at Passchendaele on 11 November ...

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