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Facebook livestream special Last Post op ANZAC Day

Traditionally on 25th April, the day of the landing in Gallipoli, the Australian and New Zealand communities remember the fallen of their countries during the Great War. The special Last Post for ANZAC Day will again be organised on Sunday 25 April 2021 at 11 a.m. at the Menin Gate Memorial in Ieper, Belgium. The Australian and New Zealand Ambassadors will lay a wreath together with the ...

Innovations in the permanent exhibition of the IFFM

IFFM 2021 – upgrade This spring, the In Flanders Fields Museum presents a large number of innovations in the permanent exhibition. When many thousands of visitors from Belgium and abroad will find their way back to Ypres, they will be able to visit an even more attractive museum thanks to an investment of 400,000 euros. Three audio guide tours From now on, you can also visit the ...

Ieper: The Lost Key commemorates civilian victims - 10/10

No one will deny that the First World War cost the lives of many civilians - both residents and refugees - in Ypres: civilians are always and everywhere the first victims of war. The List of ...

Ramskapelle: Commemoration of the Battle of Ramskapelle - 23/10

Please find below some photos of the 107th anniversary of the battle of Ramskapelle which was commemorated on Saturday 26 October 2019. This events commemorates the efforts ot the Belgian and Franch troops stopping the German attack at the end of October 1914.   The standard of the 6th Linieregiment. Wreaths were laid at ...  

Zonnebeke: Herdenking / Commemoration Private J.M.C. Neagle - 17/10

Soldaat James Martin Clement Neagle diende bij het 50ste Battalion van het Australische leger dat in oktober 1917 deelnam aan de gevechten in de Ypres Salient tijdens de 3e Slag om Ieper.  Na de 1e Slag om Passendale (12 Okt.) moest zijn battaljon de volgende dagen prikkledraad aanbrengen bij de frontlijn en dat onder voortdurende Duitse beschietingen.Toen die job zogoed als gedaan ...  

Poelkapelle: Herdenking / CommemorationTMYS (Frank Mahieu) - 03/10

op zondag 3 oktober 2021 werd bij het tank memorial te Poelkapelle door de Tank Memorial Ypres Salient-vrienden een herdenking gehouden voor de in Vlaanderen gevallen tankbemanningen uit beide ...

Passendale: Herdenking Nieuw-Zeeland / Commemoration New Zealand (Frank Mahieu) - 12/10

Passendale - at the New Zealand Memorial at 's Graventafel, Passchendaele, Belgium, a ceremony of remembrance was held today Oct. 12th. to commemorate the men from New Zealand who fell on New Zealand's Blackest Day, i.e. Oct. 12th 1917 in the attack at (the nearby) Bellevue Spur. The cost for them was very high: 843 New Zealanders were killed in just a few hours on the morning of the 12th of ...

354,000 euros for the restoration of Commonwealth war cemeteries

Matthias Diependaele, Flemish Minister of Heritage, grants 354,291 euros for the restoration of Commonwealth war cemeteries. “The military cemeteries in West Flanders are part of the landscape. They are astonishing reminders of the importance of peace. I am therefore delighted that the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cares for these cemeteries in an immaculate way and I gladly support ...

From 1 July: (limited) public attendance resumes at the Last Post ceremony

In recent months, the Last Post Association has done everything possible to ensure the continuity of the daily Last Post ceremony. Now that the corona regulations are starting to be relaxed, from Wednesday, 1 July 2020 it will once again be possible for a limited number of members of the public to attend the ceremony. The continuity of the daily ceremony remains unbroken Since the ...

Passendale: Commemoration New Zealand - 12/10

Please find below some pictures of the New Zealand commemoration at 's Graventafel at Passendale on Tuesday 12 October 2021. The ceremony took place at the monument for the New Zealand division which was involved in heavy fithing in October 1917 and where the New Zealand troops suffered high losses. Address by the city of Zonnebeke. Deputy ...

Poperinge: Remembrance Pte. Herbert Morris - 11/10

The National Caribbean Monument Charity is a British organisation that would like to erect a monument for the troops that came from the Caraibean area to join the British army. They organised a sponsored walk and a delegation of this charity stopped at Poperinghe New Military Cemetery for a short remembrance at the grave of Private Herbert Morris. He died on ...

Cancellation of Anzac Day 2020 services

MESSAGE FROM THE AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND AMBASSADORS Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 (Coronavirus), we regret to inform you that public Anzac Day services in Belgium are cancelled this year. The Australian and New Zealand Embassies and the local communities in Zonnebeke, Ieper, Messines and Comines-Warneton have not taken this decision lightly. The cancellation is in line with ...

Ieper: A special donation for the In Flanders Fields Museum - 02/10

On Saturday 2 October 2021, James Gordon-Cumming handed over the monochrome painting 'A field of great sorrow and of greater glory: The battle ground of Ypres' to the In Flanders Fields ...

  • Experience war and peace in Flanders Fields

    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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