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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 ...

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 ...

07.03 - 15.11 - Feniks - Reconstructing Flanders Fields

07.03 - 15.11 - The Great War had a devastating effect on many towns and cities. Flanders Fields, in particular, had been reduced to a moonscape. Feniks: Reconstructing Flanders Fields tells a story of human ...

18.04 - 15.11 - Temporary Exhibition Feniks: Huib Hoste and modernism

18.04 - 15.11 - As soon as you enter the church, you also enter into a dialogue with Huib Hoste. You will discover why the Church of Our Lady is now regarded as the very first modernist church in Belgium and will ...

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.    

Ieper: Last Post - 19/02

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post under the Menin Gate on Wednesday 19 February 2020 at 8.00 PM. During this ceremony, wreaths were laid by representatives of Wallis Drilling and the North Cottesloe Surf Club from Australia.    

18.04 - 15.12 - Temporary exhibition: Usable? Reuse after the First World War

18.04 - 15.12 - The temporary exhibition 'Usable? Reuse after the First World War' is dedicated to the reconstruction. For the creation of this exhibition the museum worked together with the five schools ...

Ieper: Commemoration of the death of King Albert I - 16/02

Ieper - Belgian King Albert I, who played an important role during the Great War 1914-1918, died in February 1934. To remember his death, a short ceremony was held at the statues of King Albert I and Queen Elizabeth on Sunday 16 February 2020 on the market square of Ieper.  

Missing WWI memorial stone laid by Harry Patch returned

See https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-51175598 for more information. Picture from 2008. Source: www.greatwar.be  

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 ...

Ieper: Last Post - 07/02

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post under the Menin Gate on Friday 7 February 2020 at 8.00 PM. During this ceremony, wreaths were laid by: Studley High School Featherstone High School Denefield School Rouvillois family HMS Nelson/Group Bird Lord Aston of Hever & ...

Ploegsteert: Last Post - 07/02

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post ceremony at the Ploegsteert Memorial on Friday 7 February 2020. The Last Post at Ploegsteert takes place every first Friday of the month at ...

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 ...

25.04 - Anzac Day (Zonnebeke)

25.04 - Saturday 25 April 2020 marks the day that the ‘Australian and New Zealand Army Corps’ (ANZAC) landed, 105 years ago, at Gallipoli for their first major battle of the First World War. ...

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