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Rededication Service in Belgium

A Rededication Service will be held on 30 Sept 16 at 10:00hrs at Battery Corner Cemetery, Belgium for Company Serjeant Major Andrew Gale The Queens’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment). CSM Gale was killed on 28 Sept 1918 and previously buried as an “unknown Company Serjeant Major of the Great War”. The service has been organised by the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre ...

Rededication Service in Belgium

A Rededication Service will be held on 30 Sept 16 at 10:00hrs at Belgium Battery Corner Cemetery, Belgium for Company Serjeant Major Andrew Gale The Queens’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment). CSM Gale was killed on 28 Sept 1918 and previously buried as an “unknown Company Serjeant Major of the Great War”. The service has been organised by the Joint Casualty and ...

Ieper: Clan days Ieper - Clan Hay - 27/08

On Saturday, 27 August 2016, the members of the clan Hay gathered again at the Mein Gate memorial to the missing in Ieper. They do so every year at the end of August to remember the fallen members ...

Ieper: Exhibition: The War in Writing - 16/09

Exhibition at the In Flanders Fields Museum Ieper 17-09-2016 - 08-01-2017 How did we hear about the First World War in written words ? And why is it so necessary for us to know about it ? In an exhibition that looks like the cosy reading corner of the better bookstore or public library, the In Flanders Fields Museum invites you to find out. No medium gives us better insight into the ...  

Zonnebeke: Guiding tours at Polygon Wood - 11/09

On  Sunday 11 September 2016, Open Monumentenday 2016, you could visit the Buttes British Cemetery & Polygon Wood at Zonnebeke. A number of guides took the different groups to the cemetery and the surrounding wood where you could also visit a number of bunkers.    

Ieper: Last Post Four Days of the Yser - 26/08

Please find below some pictures of the special Last Post under the Menin Gate on Friday, 19 August 2016 at 3.30 PM. This ceremony took place at the end of the walk Four Days of the ...

Wijtschate: Opendoor Bayernwald - 11/09

Wijtschate - On 11 September 2016, it was Open Monumentday in Flanders. Different World War I related sites opened their doors to the public. You could visit the trenches of Bayernwald at Wijtschate. At different times during the day, a guided tour could be ...

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The New Zealand Pilgrimage Trust assits visitors from New Zealand

The New Zealand Pilgrimage Trust vzw is a non-profit organisation set up in Belgium to assist New Zealand schools, groups and individuals with planning and research for visits to the Western Front battlefields. It aims to ensure that New Zealanders visiting the region can maximize their experience at sites of specific New Zealand and family interest in addition to the more general places. Its ...

Poperinge: Exposition 'Shot at dawn' - 02/09

Life behind the lines: the calm is deceptive. There is time for pleasure but there is also time for court martials. In Poperinge several executions take place. Soldiers spend their last night in the prison cells of the town hall. Today the execution spot in the courtyard of the Town Hall is presented as an emblematical site. The 2016 exhibition places facts and figures in an even broader ...

Ploegsteert: Last Post - 02/09

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post ceremony at the Ploegsteert Memorial on Friday, 3 September 2016. The Last Post at Ploegsteert takes place every first Friday of the month at 19.00hrs.    

British Ambassador on reopening ceremony Colne Valley Cemetery

Colne Valley Cemetery in Boezinge, near Ypres, has been entirely leveled up and will therefore be officially reopened on Wednesday 22 June 2016 at 10hrs in the presence of the British Ambassador Alison Rose. Next to this, the new educational brochure created by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) for children between 6 and 8 years old, will be presented. As Colne Valley Cemetery ...

Kemmel: Ceremony Mount Kemmel - 25/08

On Thursday, 25 August 2016, a short ceremony took place at the top of Mount Kemmel at Kemmel. The ceremony was held at the French monument which stands on top of the ...

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