Royal British Legion - Great Pilgrimage 90 - Ieper, Belgium 8th August 2018
Great Pilgrimage 90....in 1928 Field Marshall Douglas Haig insisted that the Royal British Legion lead a Great Pilgrimage to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's magnificient Menin Gate memorial to mark the anniversary of the Last 100 Days and to tour the battlefields of Flanders and the Somme. On 8th August 2018 over 1200 standards of Royal British Legion branches paraded through the town of Ieper and the salute march past at the Cloth Hall on their way to a special commemorative event at the CWGC Menin Gate, Ieper to celebrate this event.
Great Pilgrimage 90 - highlights of the battlefields tour and parade to the Menin Gate
Watch highlights from this year's Great Pilgrimage 90. In 2018 the Royal British Legion recreated the Battlefields Pilgrimage of 1928 90 years on. Watch highlights of this year's battlefields tour and parade to the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium. For more information on GP90, visit
Eurotrip in a Campervan - WW1 Battlefield Walks - Episode 1 Ypres
After a year of building our campervan we decided to document our journey to France and Belgium as we visited the battlefields of WW1. A personal pilgrimage to our ancestors, one who survived and one who never returned.
Ypres 2018 Part 1 - The Journey to Belgium
A little off boat adventure to Ypres in Belgium, this is the first in a 4 part mini series which covers our whole adventure visiting WW1 trenches, tunnels, important buildings and of course pay our respects to the fallen at Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Tyne Cot and Vimy Ridge. Part one covers our journey from Luton down to the Euroshuttle and then through France and finally on to Ypres in Belgium. This series is a light-hearted affair with moments of sobriety.
New York Times: Ypres aka Ieper is a must visit in 2018
The New York Times has published an interactive feature listing the top 52 places in the world to visit in 2018.
Ieper aka Ypres is on the list.
On Nov. 11, 2018, the centennial of the end of the First World War will be celebrated across Europe. A prime spot to commemorate the occasion is Ypres in the Flemish region that saw some of the Great War’s bloodiest battles — sensitively chronicled at the city’s In Flanders Fields Museum. Armistice Day will bring concerts, a poppy parade and a moving Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing.
British Legion returns to Ypres to celebrate the fallen on WW1 battle
(8 Aug 2018) Veterans and descendants of those who fought in World War I gathered in Ypres on Wednesday for the so-called Great Pilgramage 90.
The event, organised by the British Legion was a recreation of the 1929 Great Pilgramage, when widowed wives and veterans visited the battlefields of the Somme and Ypres before marching to the Menin Gate Memorial.
August 8th is also the day that marks the centenary of the 'Last 100 Days of the Offensive' which led to the conclusion of the conflict.
In Wednesday's event, pilgrims carried 1100 wreaths through the market square of Ypres and then onto a ceremony at the Menin gate, which commemorates more than 54,000 soldiers who died before 16 August 1917 and have no known grave.
Organiser Bob Gamble OBE, Assistant Director of Engagement at The Royal British Legion,one of the organisers of the event described it as an event for the people who were most affected; the families, the descendants of all that went on in World War I.
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Great War Tours - Remembrance tours of the memorial sites of World War One
Video by Great War Tours Limited - showing how Debbie Coupland has taken the idea of battlefield tours and made it luxury.
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Ypres 11-11-18 Poppy Parade
Ypres, Belgium 2018
From Dover to Dunkirk, then through France to Belgium where we drove to Ypres, saw the Menin Gate War Memorial to the fallen with no known graves, the 8pm Last Post by the Scottish Highlanders, next day to Passchendaele, and to the hugely emotional Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Cemetery, join us as we go on a journey of personal discovery and explore our own family history from the front line of Flanders Fields in the Great War m/
First World War, German Occupation, Belgium, 1916
Belgians surrender cows to German troops. (captured Belgian town; peasants are forced to turn their cattle over to the Germans) Belgian people lead their cows to surrender them to German troops during World War I. Consequences of World War I on the people of Belgium. Belgians surrender their cows to German troops. A woman leads a cow. People lead their cows to surrender them to German forces. Women in a horse drawn cart. People in a market place. Aftermath of bombardment. A horseman rides past a wrecked church. Damaged buildings along the sides of a street. People milling about on the street. Ruined buildings. Belgique 1918 ***** License this footage at Framepool: ***** Check out our history show cases:
Passchendaele Ypres Battlefield Tour March 2017
Battlefield Tour of Ypres and surrounding areas in March 2017. We have approx 12 more films to upload all of different locations, Hope you enjoy them. Colin & Jules 2017.
WWI Trench, Memorial Museum Passchendaele, Zonnebeke, Belgium
A walkthrough the reconstructed World War I trench system at the Memorial Museum Passchendaele.
War Graves at Ypres & The Menin Gate
A personal journey to Ypres, The Menin Gate, Tyne Cott and the Battle Fields of the Great War.
Ypres and The Somme 90 Years On. (Part 3)
A HENDY PRODUCTION
A visit to some of the battlefields and WW 1 cemetries in Ypres and The Somme during the summer of 2009. Two locations of particular Welsh involvement, Pilckem Ridge and Mametz Wood.
Ypres: Remembrance Day (1922)
Ypres, France.
Full titles read: REMEMBRANCE DAY - 'Every man woman and child should that Ypres saved the Empire' - Lord French
L/S's of numerous military officials and war veterans walking through the war torn town of Ypres. M/S of dignitary standing with Lord French, he reads from a scroll. L/S of Lord French picking up large wreath and placing and hanging it on a next to the Union Flag (Union Jack).
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Battlefield Walk -Vimy Ridge 1917- 2017 Centenary Event and Memorial
We attended the Vimy Memorial to honour my GreatGrandfather who fought at Vimy and to give thanks to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, the first day was all mobile phone capture as we were not allowed video cameras or so they said and Day 2 I used my video camera. This is a tribute from the few to the many lest we forget
Flanders Field: Remembering Their Sacrifice
This nine minute film serves as an orientation to the Great War, the cemetery, and ABMC. Through historic and modern-day imagery, and first-person recollections from letters, a clearer perspective of the true cost of war is presented. The film touches on the fighting in the region by the 27th, 30th, 37th, and 91st Divisions during the war in the Ypres-Lys Offensive. It discusses how family members had to select repatriation to the United States for burial, or permanent interment in an American, overseas cemetery. It covers the Gold Start Mother Pilgrimages that gave women the opportunity to visit their son or husband’s burial location overseas. The film also shows the appreciation and friendship of the Belgians through an annual singing tradition during the Memorial Day ceremony, and a grave site adoption program.
Ypres Belgium 2016 (WW1)
Menin Gate - Ypres Belgium
Ceremony of the Last Post in Ypres 11 November 2018 @ 20h00
Peace to the world in Ieper 25/8/18 - slotspeech
10 000 mensen zakten 25 augustus 2018 af naar de grote markt in Ieper om 100 jaar het einde van de eerste Wereldoorlog te herdenken. Dalilla Hermans gaf er de slotspeech.