Hooge Collection

Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse, VC
Captain Noel G. Chavasse was Medical Officer to the 1/ 10th Battalion of the Kings Liverpool Regiment during the First World War

A British Charge at Hooge
Illustrations showing a charge by soldiers of the Liverpool and Scottish regiments to recapture a trench taken by the Germans who took it by using flame-projectors to spray fire

Flammenwerfer in French hands
German flame-projectors, or flammenwerfer being tested by French soldiers. The Germans used Flammenwerfer against the British at Hooge on August 9th 1915

Hooge Cemetery during the First World War

Memorial to Kings Royal Rifle Corps, Hooge Date: 2016

Hooge Crater CWGC Cemetery showing symbolic crater Date: 2016

Hooge Crater Bunker, Kasteel Hof grounds Date: 2016

Hooge Crater CWGC Cemetery with Hooge Crater Museum Date: 2016

Memorial to Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry, Hooge Date: 2016

Flanders Nights Entertainments, by Bairnsfather
Flanders Nights Entertainments Captain Bairnsfather, who is at present somewhere in France, sends us the above amusing take-off of his colleague Mr Norman Morrow, our theatrical artist

WWI bullet engraved Hooge - Ypres - St Eloi - 1914-15
First World War bullet engraved Hooge - Ypres - St. Eloi - 1914-15. Trench Art

Private W Cheetham bringing up fresh supplies of bombs
Private W. Cheetham (1st Btn. Shropshire Light Infantry) bringing up fresh supplies of bombs under very heavy fire at the crater at Hooge - August 9th 1915

Lance Corporal Joynson drives the enemy back with bombs
Lance Corporal Joynson (1st Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers) heading an attack and driving the enemy back with bombs near Hooge - June 16th 1915

Private R Biggins attacking a crater at Hooge
Private R. Biggins (2nd Btn. Notts. & Derby Regiment) leading an attack on a crater at Hooge on the 9th August 1915. The conspicuous bravery of Biggins was awarded with the DCM

The Menin Road looking towards Hooge, c 1918
The Menin Road looking towards Hooge, c.1918, by William Lionel Wyllie, RA RI RE (1851-1931). Date: circa 1918

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