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Sherwood Foresters Memorial, Passchendaele MuseumThe memorial is on the outside wall of the Museum and was presented to the Commune of Zonnebeke (in which the Museum lies)
Khaki Chums Christmas Truce Cross, St Yvon, BelgiumAt Christmas 1914, over the 24th/25th December, a truce was held here between the 1st Battalion the Warwickshire Regiment and the 7th Bavarians in which Bruce Bairnsfaher took part
Christmas 1914 Football Match Statues, Messines - MesenThis life sized statue of a German and a British soldier shaking hands over a football, was sculpted by Andy Edwards and was unveiled on 22 December 2015
Unveiling the Christmas Truce Memorial, FrelinghienThe most fully documented Christmas Truce story of 1914 took place between the 2nd Royal Welch Fusiliers and the Saxon 133rd Infantry Regiment plus the Prussian 6th Jager Battalion at Frelinghien
Field Gun outside the TJaegershof RestaurantThe restaurant has a small but interesting museum which is concerned with the activities nearby, including the St Sixtus Abbey
Charing Cross Dressing Station bunkers, PloegsteertThese are close by the Plugstreet Experience 14-18 (Interpretation Centre) and served the Dressing Station which, like many of the sites around here, used a series of Central London names
Headsone of German Jewish soldier Max Seller, BelgiumThe burial is in the CWGC Cemetery, Hyde Park Corner. In this same cemetery is the grave of Private Albert Edward French, a 16 years old who was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 documentary in 1983
Ypres Battlefield Markers and signsOver the 40 years that we have been writing about these battlefields, there has been many attempts to signpost the places of interest
Victims of the First Gas Attack Memorial, SteenstraatThis 15 metres high Cross of Reconciliation, commemorates the victims of the first gas attack of the war made by the Germans on 22 April 1915
Welsh - Caesars Nose - CWGC CemeteryThis small cemetery stands on the site of a German redoubt which was called Fortin 17. Fighting around this area began in 1915
Scotts Bunker, Polygon Wood, BelgiumThe bunker is just behind the New Zealand National Memorial, though one needs to climb a small wall to visit it from there
Detail of the RWF Christmas Truce Plaque, FrelinghienThe plaque is on the memorial plinth unveiled by the daughter of Frank Richards in 2008. There are also plaques to the German 6th Jaeger Battalion and the 133rd Saxon Infantry Regiment
German bunker, Oosttaverne Wood, OostaverneThis bunker is one that formed part of the German defensive line that was attacked on 7 June 1917, the opening of the Messines prelude to the battle for Passchendaele
Poet and Doctor Colonel John McCrae MemorialMcCrae, who served in the Boer War, is popularly remembered as the author of what is probably the best-known poem of the First World War -In Flanders Fields
Memorial to Harry Patch, the last British VeteranThis memorial was privately erected by Harry Patch to remember those with whom he served in the 7th Battalion DCLI. It is placed on the edge of the Steenbeek stream across which at dawn
Memorial to the 49th - West Riding - Division, Essex FarmThe 49th, a territorial division, came out early in 1915. It had the dubious distinction of being, together with the 6th Division, one of the first to face a phosgene attack
Memorial to Sgt Charles Ranginawawahia SciasiaNew Zealander Sciasia, born of an Italian father and a Maori mother, played, with his brother John, for the Maori All Blacks in 1913
Memorial to New Zealander Leslie Andrew, VC, WarnetonLance Corporal Andrew, who won his VC at La Bassee when he was 20 years old, went on to serve in WW2 and died, a Brigadier, in January 1969
View over Dikkebus Lake, Dickebusch, BelgiumThe name Dickebusch means hick forest and dates from the time that this area was dense woodland. The Germans never took the lake, although they reached the water in May 1918
Captain Chavasse VC Memorial, Brandhoek Church groundsThis memorial to Noel Chavasse was unveiled on 29 August 1997 in the presence of a delegation of the London Scottish Territorials
The Indian Memorial, Menin Gate Ramparts, YpresThis white stone memorial was unveiled on 10 November 2002 as part of the Flanders India 2002 Partnership Year by Major-General A.J. Bajwa, who had come all the way from India for the ceremony
Memorial to poet and musician Ivor Gurney, BelgiumSimilar in design to those for Ledwidge and Chavasse, the memorial was unveiled on 12 September 2007, the initiative of Piet Chielens and the Friends of the In Flanders Fields Museum
Ypres Ramparts CWGC Cemetery seen across the moatThe earliest settlement in this area is thought to have been near Langemarck in about AD960 and gradually a cluster of villages grew up around the Yperlee
Memorial Plaque for Little Talbot House - Ypres, BelgiumThis is on the wall of No 83 Rijselstraat in Ypres and marks the site of the little brother of Talbot House (Toc H) which opened on 13 November 1917
Plaque to Captain J J Crowe VC, Nieuwkerke HospiceThe final German attempt to break through to the Channel ports, known as the Fourth Battle of Ypres, had initial success
Australian 5th Division Memorial, Polygon WoodThe memorial stands on the old rifle buttes and overlooks both the Polygon Wood CWGC Cemetery and the New Zealand National Memorial
Australian Road to Passchendaele Marker StoneThe Third Battle of Ypres, generally referred to as Passchendaele began on 31 July 1917 and staggered on in dreadful weather conditions until it floundered in mud and resulted in some 300
Memorial to 15th Battalion Canadian HighlandersThis bronze plaque, mounted in a brick plinth, records the part played by the 15th on the Gravenstafel Ridge during the Second Battle of Ypres (the Gas Attacks)
Memorial Plaque to Ypres Civilians WW1 and WW2This is beside the main Ypres War Memorial which is just outside the Cloth Hall. On the other side of the memorial is a plaque to the Belgian 13th Field Artillery. Date: 2016
The Two at Pervyse with Shot the dog memorial, YpresThis memorial is in the garden of the Ariane Hotel in Ypres. The Two is the title given to two extrordinary British laidies, Elsie Knocker and Mairie Chisholm
Chairman of the Ypres Last Post Committee with buglesThe Ceremony of the Last Post, in which firemen buglers play the Last Post under the Menin Gate at 8pm each night is, in its simplicity, one of the most moving acts of Remembrance in the world
Canadian Rifles and VCs Memorials, PasschendaeleThree flat black marble plaques mark the part played by the 3rd Canadian Division, the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles and the 3rd (Toronto)
The Australian Diggers Memorial, Plugstreet ExperienceThe 14-18 Experience Museum was opened on 9 November 2013 and on that day a splendid bas relief of Australian miners digging underground was unveiled. It was donated by Ross J
The Memorial Chapel, Talbot House, Poperinghe, BelgiumTalbot House, a rest house for soldiers and officers, was started by Padre Philip Byard (Tubby) Clayton and was officially opened on 11 December 1915
Polish Memorial, Cloth Hall, Ypres, BelgiumThe memorial, which is on an outside wall, commemorates the Polish Forces who liberated Ypres in September 1944. In September 2016 researcher Chris Lock discovered that three Polish soldiers were not
Thanking the Last Post Buglers at the Menin GateThe Last Post at the Gate has been played at 8pm under the arches by Ypres firemen (with only an interval during WW2) since the unveiling on 24 July 1927
Captain Woodward, 1st Australian Tunneling CompanyCaptain Oliver Woodward was one of the heroes of the underground war at Hill 60. He had trained as a mining engineer and during his military career won the MC and two bars
Prowse Point St Yvon Christmas Memorial Area with footballsPrompted by the 100th Anniversaries of the battles of WW1, much interest in the Truces that took place beteen the enemies at Christmas 1914, particulary in this area
Bruce Bairnsfathers Cottage Memorial, St Yvon, BelgiumThe rebuilt cottage stands on the site of the original building in which, in 1914, Bruce Bairnsfather drew his first catoons which led to the creation of Old Bill
Field gun and soldier statues, Plugstreet ExperienceThe gun and the statues, which are cut-outs made from steel sheets, are in the grounds of the Plugstreet 14-18 Experience (Interpretation Centre)
Reconstructed CWGC Cemetery, Colne Valley, YpresThe Cemetery faces a feature known as Colne Valley. It is on one of the marked walking routes around the Ypres battlefields
The American Bridge, Vierstraat, BelgiumThe bridge crosses the small stream the Kemmelbeek. In the August 1918 offensive the centre line of the attacking American 27th Division crossed over this bridge, hence its local name of American
Christmas Truce Memorial, Peace Village, MessinesThe memorial carries the words A Lull in the Hate and refers to the football match played between the Germans and the British at Christmas 1914
British CWGC Cemetery Tyne Cot, Passchendaele, BelgiumThis is the largest British War Cemetery in the world and was designed by Sir Hebert Baker (who designed the tomb of Cecil Rhodes in Delhi)
Welsh National Memorial Dragon, Hagebos - Iron CrossThis fine memorial in Belgium is not only to the 38th Welsh Division, but to all Welsh Forces who fought in the Ypres Salient. It is similar to the dragon at Mametz on the Somme
Bus House CWGC Voormezeele, BelgiumMarking places on battefields is always a tricky business. hence the use of simple identifiers such as Lone Tree, Railway Corner etc. Our old friend Rose Coombs told how this cemetery got its name
The Lille Gate in the Ypres ramparts seen across the moatYpres is a walled city and it has several routes into it. The two most well-known of its gates through the ramparts are via the Menin Gate (on the old road to Menin)
The Izjer Tower seen through the Pax Gate, DixmuideListed as an International Peace Centre, the Tower is a symbol of Flemish Nationalism which came to a head during the First World War. The Towers history goes back to the 18th Century