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The Passchendaele Museum reopend its doors from 1 February 2023

After a two-month closure, visitors can experience the story of The First World War and the Battle of Passchendaele again at the Passchendaele Museum from 1 February 2023. Numerous activities are planned to make it a good year. There will be a new temporary exhibition and accompanying walk in the Zonnebeke castle grounds, various lectures, a book launch and the annual ...

Exhibition on the First World War in the Middle East in the IFFM

In Flanders Fields Museum opens unique exhibition on the First World War in the Middle East and thus transcends the borders of the Western Front   Besides in Europe, war also broke out in the Middle East in 1914. This region was largely dominated by the Ottoman Empire, which sided with Germany and therefore belonged to the losing side in 1918. The Ottoman Empire fell apart and the ...

Sint-Juliaan: Commemoration Friends of the TMYS (Frank Mahieu) - 19/08

August 1917 Tank battle at St. Julien Hill 35 Tank Memorial Ypres Salient, 19 August 2023   The friends of the TMYS commemorated the fallen tankies of the 19th and 22nd August 1917 attack ...

Poelkapelle: Funeral/begrafenis Pte. Meager & 2 unknown soldiers (Frank Mahieu) - 27/09

On 27 Sept. 2023 at 10.30AM a burial service for Private William James Meager, 16th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, KIA 18 August 1917, and for two unknown soldiers took place at Poelcapelle British Cemetery, Belgium. Private Meager died, aged 38, on 18 August 1917 while serving with the 16th Bn. The Middlesex Regiment (Public Schools). Initially he served with the 4th Bn. The Middlesex Regt. ...  

Zonnebeke: Herdenking 105 jaar bevrijding Houthulst-Passendale - 24/09

Please find below some pictures of the commemoration for the 105th anniversary of the liberation of Passendale in September ...  

Tribute to King Albert I and the heroes of the Yser - 06/08

Please find below some pictures of the yearly national tribute at Nieuwpoort for King Albert I and the heroes of the Yser on Sunday 6 August ...

Zillebeke: Rededication Cpl.Bousfield (Frank Mahieu) - 14/09

Zillebeke - ENG: Rededication for Cpl Frederick Percival “Percy” Bousfield at Bedford House Cemetery, Ypres on 14 Sept. 2023. The ceremony was attended by many Canadian relatives of Cpl Bousfield and the military protocol performed by his successors of the Cameron Highlanders of Canada under command of Lt. Col Jon Baker. Frederick was born on 8 March 1896 in Cotehill, Cumberland ...

Ypres Peace Classes  launches brand new programme for primary schools

Ypres Peace Classes is a brand new multi-day programme tailored to primary school classes (10-12 years old). Pupils are accompanied for two or more days by an educational guide on the theme of peace.   The programme offers a good mix of museum visits and active exploration of the landscape. In the evening the Last Post can be attended and the pupils can stay overnight in a quality group ...

In Flanders Fields Museum Ieper: Programme 2022

On Friday 11 February 2022, the In Flanders Fields Museum Ieper presented its annual programme 2022 to the press. Special attention went to the opening of the exhibition 'Missing at the Front. Unearthing Names'.       This exhibition illustrates how archaeology gives missing soldiers back their identity. Furthermore, the large, thematic exhibition 'For ...

Ploegsteert: Last Post - 01/09

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post ceremony at the Ploegsteert Memorial on Friday 1 September 2023. The Last Post at Ploegsteert takes place every first Friday of the month at 19.00hrs.  

Sint-Juliaan: Commmemorating the Irish Divisions and Jimmy Speirs (Frank Mahieu) - 20/08

Op 20 augustus 2023 herdacht het "Genootschap Passchendaele Society" de Sk lag bij Langermark van 1-20 Augustus 1917 en de inzet van de 36e Ulster en 16e Ierse Dicisie daarbij. Ook werd de Ierse Father Doyle herdacht die toen op 16 aug. sneuvelde. Johan De Jonghe deed het verhaal van de Ierse divisies en van Father Doyle. Piper en klaroenblazers van Field Marshall Haig's ...

Passchendaele Museum doors open again from 1 February

The Passchendaele Museum in Zonnebeke will open its doors again from 1 February after the annual closing period. New this year is the temporary exhibition 'Here dead we lie' by the University of Kent and the exhibition around a unique loan. Temporary photography exhibition in combination with poetry and objects In cooperation with the University of Kent, the museum will ...

Passendale: The Grenadier Guards Band visit Tyne Cot Cemetery - 10/07

On Monday 10 July, the Band of  the Grenadier Guards from London visited Tyne Cot Cemetery at Passendale. They received a guided tour of the cemetery, met the CWGC gardeners who maintain ...

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    The website Greatwar.be introduces you in the theme of the Great War in the In Flanders Fields region. The database contains an overview of all monuments, sites, locations, cemeteries, ... in Flanders Fields.

    Further on you will find the important events that remember the First World War, a list op publications, the musea, interesting websites and extensive historical information.

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