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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 ...

Zillebeke: Monument for the 15th Battalion Canadian Infantry (48th Highlanders) and Lt.Col. William Marshall DSO - 19/05

On Friday 19 May 2023 the official inauguration took place of the new monument for the 15th Battalion Canadian Infantry (48th Highlanders) and Lt.Col. William Marshall DSO. The monument is ...

Ploegsteert: Last Post - 02/06

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post ceremony at the Ploegsteert Memorial on Friday 2 June 2023. The Last Post at Ploegsteert takes place every first Friday of the month at 19.00hrs.   ...  

Poperinge: Remembrance Major General Mercer - 30/05

The Friends of the In Flanders Fields Museum organized a remembrance at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery on Tuesday 30 May 2023. And this for Major-General Malcolm Smith Mercer, CB, the highest ranked officer from the Canadian army who died in Flanders.  Major-General Malcolm Smith Mercer, CB - 17/09/1859 - ...  

Zillebeke: Burial Private Robert Malcolm - 10/05

More than a century after his death, Private (Pte) Robert Kenneth Malcolm, a 23 year-old stretcher bearer from Stockton-on-Tees, has finally been laid to rest with full military honours and his ...

Koksijde: Remembering the Zoauves - 29/05

Koksijde - Please find below some pictures of the annual remembrance for the French Zouaves at Koksijde on Monday 29 May 2023. First a tribute at the French graves on the cemetery of Koksijde Flower tribute at the monument for the Zouaves alongside the coast. Closing ...

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 ...

Zillebeke: Rededication 2nd Lt. W.W. Hutton - 24/05

More than a century after the end of World War 1, an unmarked headstone of a Commonwealth war grave finally carries the name of the young airman who rests there. A ceremony was held in Belgium on Wednesday 24 May 2023 for World War 1 Royal Flying Corps (RFC) Officer, Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) William Wallace Hutton, who was aged 24 when he was killed. 2nd Lt Hutton, from Cape Town, died ...

Zillebeke: Rededication 2nd Lt. W.W. Hutton (Frank. Mahieu) - 24/05

Today, May 24th 2023? a rededication service was held for the recently identified 2nd Lt. W.W. Hutton at Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, Zilllebeke, Ypres. 2nd Lt. William Wallac Hutton served the Royal Flying Corps of the time. He was born on 13 Sept. 1894 and was killed on Oct. 28, 1917 aged 23.  With his Handley Page bomber squadron a bombing raid was performed ...

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 ...

Ieper: Witnesses in the Landscape: Their name liveth for evermore… - 29/04

On Saturday 29 April 2023 the inauguration of the project 'Witnesses in the landscape' took place in the info-centre of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in the Menenstraat in Ieper ...

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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.

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