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8-metre-tall carved Māori monument to be unveiled in Zonnebeke

A new memorial honouring the role of New Zealand Māori and other service people in the First World War will be unveiled in the Passchendaele Memorial Park, next to the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, Zonnebeke on Anzac Day, 25 April 2019. The pou maumahara (memorial carving) was created from 4,500-year-old native New Zealand timber by master carvers, tutors and students from the New ...

Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 ready for the future

After the annual closing period, the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 in Zonnebeke will open its doors again on 1 February 2019. With a new exhibition space and annual commemorations, the museum wants to continue to spread the story of the Battle of Passchendaele internationally. Commemorating  one of the bloodiest periods in our history and keeping the memory of the many victims alive ...

Ploegsteert: Last Post - 03/05

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post ceremony at the Ploegsteert Memorial on Friday, 3 May 2019. The Last Post at Ploegsteert takes place every first Friday of the month at ...

Wijtschate: Rededication for Capt. Cecil Thomas Tuff (Frank Mahieu) - 14/05

2019, May 14th, Wijtschate, Heuvelland, Oosttaverne Wood Cemetery:  a rededication ceremony was held for Captain Cecil Thomas Tuff who until now was buried as "a captain of the Royal West Kent Regiment" but since the recent identification now has a known grave. The ceremony was also attended by his great nephew Geoffrey Tuff and his great niece Prunelle Scarlett. Military honour ...  

Ieper: Last Post - 10/05

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post under the Menin Gate on Friday 10 May 2019 at 8.00 PM. During this ceremony wreaths were laid by: Heilig Hartinstituut Heverlee Shankill Road Defenders Flute Band King Edmund School Worshipful Livery Company of Wales Quinton House School Hainsworth family Helena Romanes School Abbotsholme ...  

Zuidschote: Commemorating the first gas attack - 28/04

Please find below some pictures of the 104th anniversary of the first gas attack on 22 April 1915. The ceremony on Sunday 28 April 2019 started with a service in the church of Zuidschote. ...

Ieper: Last Post - 08/05

Ieper - Please find below some pictures of the Last Post under the Menin Gate on Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 8.00 PM. During this ceremony wreaths were laid by: International School of Düsseldorf Koor Die Boose MMBT VE Day commemoration 19th US ...

Professor Lucy Noakes, University of Essex: Poppy Petals: The Meaning of the Great War in 21st Century Britain

In Flanders Fields Museum and the School of History/Gateways to the First World War, University of Kent present a fifth series of eight seminars on Thursday evening, free and open to all. Ieper venue and start times: Research Centre, Reading Room,  In Flanders Fields Museum, Sint-Maartensplein 3, 8900 Ieper, 7.15 pm.   24 January 2019 Professor Lucy Noakes, University of Essex, ...

Programme 100 years Armistice 2018

The end of the centenary commemorations of the First World War (2014-2018) will be marked during the weekend of 9-11 November 2018 by a number of special events in Ieper and Zonnebeke. Different partners have collaborated to develop a total programme that will proclaim the universal message of peace in a serene and respectful manner. This programme is an initiative of the Flemish Government in ...

Ieper: Last Post - 07/05

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post under the Menin Gate on Tuesday 7 May 2019 at 8.00 PM. During this ceremony wreaths were laid by: Sint-Jozefsinstituut, Ternat Speller family Stedelijke Basisschool Guido Gezelle Tandem, Diepenbeek  

Ieper: Last Post - 05/05

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post under the Menin Gate on Sunday, 5 May 2019 at 8.00 PM. During this ceremony wreaths were laid by: Kirkcaldy High School Lincoln Memorial Band Davey family Pontypridd Schools Groep Limoniet Maghull and Aughton Rotary Club Jones family Europaschule Friesenschule, Leer (Germany) Reepham High School ...

Burial Ceremony for a Soldier of the Great War

A burial service for an unknown Commonwealth soldier will take place at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Buttes New British Cemetery at 10am on 4 July 2018. The casualty was discovered near Hooge near Ypres, and although it is known that he was serving with the Commonwealth forces, it has not been possible to identify him.  The CWGC will commemorate him as a ...

Ploegsteert: Anzac Day on Toronto Avenue Cemetery - 25/04

Please find below some pictures of the Australian commemoration on Toronto Avenue Cemetery on Anzac Day, 25 April ...

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