Gedenkteken der Britse Helden, Menenpoort, Ieper, c.1960 - Thill Foto Briefkaart
Gedenkteken der Britse Helden, Menenpoort, Ieper, c.1960 - Thill Foto Briefkaart
Place de la Gare, Ypres, c.1917 - Antony CPA
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No one can prepare you for the impact Tyne Cot Cemetery has on a human mind of today, being not aware of the terrors and fears that came with The Great War. 11,965 burials, of which 8,369 are unnamed, mark the Belgian landscape while fields of crops and wheat embrace this monumental site.
Hold your breath and try to walk humbly over this burial ground once you made it to this region in Belgium - and try to learn from history (which we all should do)!
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In samenwerking met het Yper Museum onderzoekt het Jan Yperman #Ziekenhuis in #Ieper een #middeleeuws #skelet afkomstig van het voormalige ‘Noorderkerkhof’ in de Vlaamse stad dat van de 13e tot de 16e eeuw in gebruik was. Archeologen groeven hier tussen september 2017 tot oktober 2018 maar liefst 1075 skeletten op.
https://www.hetnieuwsvanwestvlaanderen.be/in-jan-yperman-ziekenhuis-kregen-ze-een-middeleeuws-bot-over-de-vloer/
Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, c.1920s - Ernest Thill CPA
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Beschouwing "In Flanders fields", Rabbo Ploeger schilderijen. Uitgave Het Interbellum Kunstbemiddeling, 2014.
#beschouwing #kunststukjes #blog #tumblr #RabboPloeger #DeGrooteOorlog #schilderijen #paintings #kunst #art #poëzie #gedichten #schuldiglandschap #Armando #JimiHendrix #FredKuiper #contemporaryart #autodidact #Vlaanderen #België #Ieper #slagveld #loopgraven #WO2
https://www.tumblr.com/jurjenkvanderhoek/790749298315919360/de-schuldige-landschappen-van-rabbo-ploeger?source=share
"In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
... We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields."
(John McCrae, written on May 3, 1915)
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Cathédrale St Martin, Ypres, c.1920s - Thill Nels CPA
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Andermans rituelen
Onderweg naar Frankrijk maken we een tussenstop in Ieper. Daar bezoeken we ook het dagelijks herinneren van de Eerste Wereldoorlog: het spelen van de Last Post.
Er is een grote menigte op af gekomen. Veel Britten, ook schoolklassen. Een jongen loopt met een t-shirt van Kid A. Goed album, waarschijnlijk was je niet geboren toen dat uitkwam.
Veel Britten, want het is ook een monument voor de […]
https://www.filmvanalledag.nl/2025/07/06/andermans-rituelen/
De resten van de recent opgegraven #burchtmuur in het Vlaamse #Ieper zijn weer onder de grond verdwenen. De funderingsplannen voor de supermarkt die op de plek verrijst zijn wel aangepast, zodat de muurresten niet beschadigd raken. Verder kreeg de muur een behandeling om hem tegen schade te beschermen.
https://www.hln.be/ieper/middeleeuwse-burchtmuur-weer-ondergronds-hopelijk-krijgt-de-vondst-toch-een-plekje-in-de-carrefour~a5a63438/
🖋️ Fancy contributing to free knowledge?
On 11 June, together with the Yper Museum, we are organising a writing session on artists from Ypres and the Westhoek.
The aim: to make their work and life stories more visible on Wikipedia🎨.
Everyone welcome - even those who have never edited Wikipedia before!
📍 More info & co-writing: https://w.wiki/DqgB
#Wikipedia #OpenKnowledge # Heritage #YperMuseum #Ieper #Art
The Passchendaele Canadian Memorial commemorates the actions and sacrifices of the Canadian Corps during the First World War’s Battle of Passchendaele.
Read more on the events that are honored here at https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/passchendaele!
Lest we forget.
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Two weeks in #belgium🇧🇪 were over too fast three summers ago and so was my photographic #journey into some facts and parts of #worldwar1. I want to polish this account with a focus on the place where #inflandersfields has been created back in 1915. Stay tuned for my new travel- and photography-infos which will feature many aspects of history and especially this cruel war which ended on November 11th, 1918 and took so many brave lifes.
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Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Poperinge, Flanders, is the prime witness of more than four years of violent warfare. From 1915 until 1920, the hamlet of Lijssenthoek became the venue for the biggest evacuation hospital in the Ypres Salient.
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Two weeks in #belgium🇧🇪 were over too some summers ago and so was my photographic #journey into some facts and parts of #worldwar1. Not only was #inflandersfields created at this place, indeed the youngest fallen hero is buried here: #vjstrudwick is told to have fallen at the age of 15 - unbelievable and sad! 😢 Lest we forget all those who gave their utter sacrifice for freedom - true heroes they were!
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Rewinding my lifeline back to July 2021, I (once again) visited Belgium and especially the region of Flanders where my interest in Flanders Fields was born years ago.
Hill 60 was a low rise south-east of Ypres made from the soil removed in digging a cutting for the Ypres to Comines railway.
It is told to had excellent views over both Ypres and Zillebeke, and was captured by the German army during the first Battle of Ypres in November 1914. On 17 April 1915, in one of the first tunnelling operations by the British Army, six mines exploded under Hill 60, which was then quickly captured with minimal casualties.
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Tyne Cot Cemetery from above. No further words needed.
"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields."
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Helaas verdwijnen de resten van de gravelijke #burcht in #Ieper in #Vlaanderen weer onder de grond. De Vlaamse overheid bleek uiteindelijk niet bereid om het vereiste bedrag van 10 miljoen euro te investeren in het bijzondere kasteel als #archeologische bezienswaardigheid.
https://www.standaard.be/media-en-cultuur/n-va-minister-heeft-geen-geld-om-van-burcht-van-de-graaf-van-vlaanderen-trekpleister-te-maken/66320340.html
This May 3rd marked the 110th anniversary of the day Lt. Colonel John #McCrae wrote his famous poem #InFlandersFields during the Second Battle of Ypres while mourning the loss of his friend Lt. Alexis Helmer.
John McCrae, MD (1872–1918), being a physician and a soldier, wrote this moving poem which still shows the feelings and emotions soldiers had to deal with in these days: „In Flanders Fields“, a piece of wonderful art created in the horrible setting of The Great War on May 3rd, 1915 - 109 years ago.
Lest we forget…
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The site of Bayernwald, in Flanders known as “#Croonaertbos” was part of the German front line during WWI, known as the “#Wijtschateboge” and “#Ypernboge”. It was conquered by the Bavarian Army of Crown Prince Rupprecht von Bayern in 1914.
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