Belgium: A Tribute to World War 1 Travel Guide
I was invited on a press trip by Visit Flanders tourism office, to witness the 100 year anniversary of World War 1. This video shares the highlights of the trip to the small towns of Ypres and Zonnebeke where some of the most gruesome battles of the war took place.
Locations:
In Flanders Field Museum
Tyne Cot Cemetery
Memorial Museum of Passchendaele
Menin Gate
Last Post Ceremony
Kazematten Brewery
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WWI Cemetery and Trench Tours in Ypres, Belgium
Hi everyone! Here is the video we made while visiting the cemeteries and war memorials in Ypres, Belgium. Sorry that this was such a long video but I found everything so interesting and I just had to share it.
If you are interested in taking this tour in Ypres, here is the information: . We took the Grand Tour and it was absolutely amazing. Highly recommended! Thanks so much to our Tour Guide Christine, you were fantastic!
Post questions or comments below. Thanks for watching! Enjoy :)
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Visit to Menin Gate and India war memorial France and Belguim
Captain naved Mohammed a Army Recruitment officer for Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton, has been working very closely with various schools, community and religous organisations in Birmingham and the surrounding areas.
Captain Mohammed, organised a trip to europe with aim to highlight the important contibution made by the muslims, durring the world wars and to counter act the extremism and predice amongest muslim and wider community, the couch left birmingham central masjid for india war memorial with a group of 50 includes school children, solders and influential members of birmingham muslim community... Phil Upton bbc wm cought up with the group on the m25
Muslims have been with Britain in good times and in bad . contributing to its welfare, standing , defence, protecting its value of justice and freedom that makes this country what it is today
First and Second World War memorials around the world
testify to this fact.
First ever trip of its kind to place, to raise and create awareness of the muslim contribution in the war of all wars
the first muslim women to recieve the georges cross was Noor aniayat khan aka spy princess She was a woman, a writer and a musician and was raised in the Sufi tradition of non-violence ...knowing tyour roots can help you make informed choices in contrbuting as an active member of british society
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lightly White colored walls of memin gate and india memorial are wieght down with names of brave muslim soldiers. which is a testament in time that Muslims have been part of Britain's success story and has helped contribute to the vitality of multicultural Britain in all sectors. When The Germans attacked the town from three sides, resulting in what are today known as the first and second battles of Ypres.
The Indian Expeditionary Force was crucial in stemming the German tide from the start.More Indians than Belgians died defending the then neutral country belgum.muslim came from then undivided India.
a tribute was paid to the soldier with a prayer a refeef as a mark of respect for the soldier follewed salat was preformed.
for some the trip was emotional and educational....
waverley school al hijra school park view
Belgium travel tip : Tyne Cot Commonwealth and Memorial to the Missing - Ypres #Belgium
Tyne Cot Commonwealth Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. The cemetery grounds were assigned to the United Kingdom in perpetuity by King Albert I of Belgium in recognition of the sacrifices made by the British Empire in the defence and liberation of Belgium during the war. It is the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any war. The cemetery and its surrounding memorial are located outside of Passendale, near Zonnebeke in Belgium.
The name Tyne Cot is said to come from the Northumberland Fusiliers seeing a resemblance between the German concrete pill boxes, which still stand in the middle of the cemetery, and typical Tyneside workers' cottages – Tyne cots.
The cemetery lies on a broad rise in the landscape which overlooks the surrounding countryside. As such, it was strategically important to both sides fighting in the area. The area was captured by the 3rd Australian Division and the New Zealand Division, on 4 October 1917 and two days later a cemetery for British and Canadian war dead was begun.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker. The land on which the cemetery stands is the free gift in perpetuity of the Belgian people to those who are honored here.
The stone wall surrounding the cemetery makes-up the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing. Upon completion of the Menin Gate memorial to the missing in Ypres, builders discovered it was not large enough to contain all the names as originally planned.
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Last Post Menenpoort Ieper
Since 1928, the Last Post has been played every evening at 8 p.m. by buglers of the local Last Post Association at the war memorial at Ypres in Belgium known as the Menin Gate, commemorating the British Empire dead at the Battle of Ypres during the First World War. The only exception to this was during the four years of the German occupation of Ypres from 20 May 1940 to 6 September 1944, when the ceremony moved to Brookwood Cemetery in England.
On the evening that Polish forces liberated Ypres, the ceremony was resumed at the Menin Gate, in spite of the heavy fighting still going on in other parts of the town. These buglers or trumpeters, sometimes seen in fire brigade uniform, are members of the fire brigade representing the Last Post Association, who organizes the events. The Last Post Association uses both silver B♭ bugles and E♭ cavalry trumpets, with either British Army tradition being respected during services at the gate.
The Last Post ceremony has now been held more than 30,000 times
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Visiting the WW1 Graves in Belgium
Travel journalist and film-maker Lisa Francesca Nand visits her great-grandfather's grave and the WW1 battlefields and museums, in Ypres Belgium.
BELGIUM: YPRES: END OF WW1 CEREMONIES
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Wednesday sees the 80th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War One.
The Belgian town of Ypres will be the focus of ceremonies marking occasion.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Belgium's King Albert II will attend a remembrance service in the town along with a handful of surviving veterans.
From 1914 to 1918, allied troops fought a war of attrition against the Germans in the trenches around Ypres.
They prevented the Kaiser's armies capturing English Channel ports, but paid a terrible cost.
The deaths of 200-thousand British and Commonwealth soldiers are recorded on graves and monuments around Ypres.
Today in the flat, featureless landscape, it seems every twist in the road reveals another cemetery, with its tight ranks of young men's graves.
Decades of exposure to the chill winds of Flanders Fields have eroded the inscriptions on these headstones.
But the 137 British cemeteries in Flanders are meticulously maintained by a team of 190 administrators, gardeners and stonemasons working for the Ypres office of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
24 stonemasons work continuously to restore these graves.
Fewer family members come to mourn the dead these days.
They are slowly being replaced by students and tourists.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
The actual war finished 80 years ago, so most of the people that fought in that war are well gone. We are finding we get a tremendous amount of youngsters, 14 to 15 years old, that are studying recent history for various projects on this kind of things. So mostly its (the cemetery) just becoming more historical than emotional
SUPERCAPTION:Sam Coock, Commonwealth War Graves Supervisor
On Wednesday the Belgian King, Albert II, and the British Queen, Elizabeth II, will honour over 10 million soldiers who died in the First World War.
The Belgian monarch's grandfather Albert I was supreme commander of the Belgian army during the war years.
The monarchs will stand together under the Menin Gate.
This huge arch is carved with the names of 54-thousand Commonwealth soldiers whose bodies were never recovered from the Flanders mud.
They will also visit Saint George's church, where daily services are held to honour the war's victims.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
Saint George's is probably one of the finest churches in the world, because it's not a museum, it's a living church and we commemorate World War One and World War Two, the Korean battle and also the Falklands and Vietnam and everything that's going on in the world today. It's a place of peace and every article in this church is commemorating somebody's son or daughter that was lost in the great battles around here.
SUPERCAPTION: Father Graham Oliver, Saint George's church
There are other reminders of the Great War around Ypres.
In places the trenches where soldiers fought and died have been preserved as a monument to them.
And this local museum also helps to keep their memory alive.
Its displays include this film of Albert I entering Ypres after the armistice.
On Wednesday 80 years later his grandson will lead the world in commemorating all those who lost their lives.
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The Great War Tour - Ypres Passendale Somme
De feature film van onze Great War tour in juli. Een tocht langs de Ieper Salient en het slagveld van de Somme met o.a. Tyne cot cemetery, Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, Thiepval Memorial en Lochnagar Crater.
De gebruikte tekst in de film komt uit het gedicht In Flanders Fields, geschreven door Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae in mei 1915:
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.
Ceremony marking 100 years since the WWI battle of Ypres
Leaders and dignitaries from former World War I enemies commemorated the 100th Anniversary of the Great War on Tuesday, during the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Belgium.
Belgium King Philippe and Queen Mathilde led a guest list including the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French Minister of Defence Jean-Yves Le Drian and Belgium Prime Minister Charles Michel.
Belgium Prime Minister Charles Michel said the Menin Gate Memorial represents a lasting monument in stone to the victims' sacrifice.
Back in 1927, marking the inauguration of this monument, Field Marshall Lord Plumer wrote: They are not missing. They are here, Michel said.
The Canadian Governor General David Johnston reflected on Canadians' respect and appreciation for those who serve, following the recent attacks on soldiers in Canada.
These soldiers, like all young men and women who volunteer for military service, held the safety of their fellow citizens and the security of their nation to be a greater consequence than their own lives, Johnston said.
World War I took an estimated 14 (m) million lives, including 5 (m) million civilians and 9 (m) million soldiers. At least 7 (m) million troops were left permanently disabled.
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Battles of Ieper 1914-1917
The Battles around Ieper or Ypres in the Great War
In Flanders Fields Museum Ypres
A short Impression of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres. Dedicated to the war victims and soldiers.
The remembrance ceremony at Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium on 31-07-2017.
Britse herdenking vanop de begraafplaats Tyne Cot in Zonnebeke, zoals uitgezonden door de VRT.
The remembrance ceremony at Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium.
The Last Post Ceremony From The Menin Gate Ypres (Ieper) | Euro Trip 2018 Pt18
We attended the Last Post Ceremony at The Menin Gate in Ypres (Ieper).
Every evening at 8pm precisely, the Last Post has been sounded since 1928 under the imposing arches of the Menin Gate. This memorial shaped like a Roman triumphal arch displays the names of 54.896 soldiers of the then British empire who went missing in action.
This memorial lists the names from the beginning of the war until 15 August 1917. The soldiers who went missing after 16 August 1917 until the end of the war, are mentioned on panels at Tyne Cot Cemetery in Passendale. There are 34.984 of them.
Tonight was special as it was the 100th anniversary of the 5th battle of Ypres, which was the beginning of the end for the German Empire in 1918.
The British suffered 4,695 casualties, the Belgians 4,500 net casualties from among 2,000 killed and 10,000 men ill or wounded.[15] The Allies advanced up to 18 mi (29 km), with an average advance of 6 mi (9.7 km) and captured c. 10,000 prisoners, 300 guns and 600 machine-guns. (Wikipedia)
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Ypern-Ieper-Ypres- Zonnebeke,Bilder vom Schlachtfeld 1.WK heute/ WW1 battlefield today
Flanders fields- Besuch der ehemaligen Schlachtfelder des ersten Weltkrieges bei Ypern heute. Nie wieder Krieg ! Teil 1 Ypern + Zonnebeke. Landschaften und Gebäude. Spurensuche.
100 Jahre 1. Weltkrieg 1914 / 2014
100 years World War I 1914 / 2014
Visit to the former battlefields of the First World War at Ypres today. No more war ! Part 1 Ypres + Zonnebeke. Landscapes and buildings.Search for traces.
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First World War Commemoration Ceremony by European Union leaders in Ieper / Ypres
On 26th June 2014 the European Council met in Ypres, Belgium for a commemoration ceremony to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.
Belgium travel tip : Hill 60 - Ypres - Belgium flanders trip #Belgium
Hill 60 is a World War I battlefield memorial site and park in the Zwarteleen area of Zillebeke south of Ypres, Belgium. It is located about 4.6 kilometres (2.9 mi) from the centre of Ypres and directly on the railway line to Comines. Before World War I the hill was known locally as Côte des Amants (French for Lover's Knoll). The site comprises two areas of raised land separated by the railway line; the northern area was known by soldiers as Hill 60 while the southern part was known as The Caterpillar.
In the collapsed tunnels beneath Hill 60, many British and German dead are buried. The Belgian government made the hill and the surrounding enclosure a battlefield memorial site and to preserve it, far as nature permits, in the state in which it was left after World War I. The park at the memorial site is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). The memorial park also has the remains of several bunkers and craters from the fighting from 1915–1917. A large concrete bunker in the centre of the site is preserved almost as it was found at the end of the war. This bunker was originally German, but modified by the Australians in 1918.
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ANZAC Day commemoration ceremony in Belgium
1. Wide of Menin Gate
2. Close-up statue of lion on top of Menin Gate monument dedicated to the missing British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in battlefields in western Flanders during World War One, that reads underneath it: 'To the armies of the British Empire who stood here from 1914 to 1918 and to those of their dead who have no known grave'
3. ANZAC procession arriving at Menin Gate
4. Procession entering Menin Gate, people watching
5. Wide of people gathered at the ceremony
6. Medium of Australian, Belgian and New Zealand representatives
7. Medium of people listening to speech
8. Various of buglers playing the 'Last Post', the traditional salute to the fallen warrior
9. Various of people listening to 'Last Post' being played
10. Australian ambassador to Belgium, Alan Thomas (on the left), and New Zealand ambassador to Belgium, Wade Armstrong (on the right) laying wreaths on the monument
11. Commander Clive Dunchue of the Royal Australian Navy and Captain Sheree Holmes of the New Zealand Defence Forces laying down wreaths on the monument
12. Cutaway soldier holding flag
13. Dunchue and Sheree saluting and leaving
14. Wide of the names of the fallen Australian soldiers of Ypres Salient, engraved on Menin Gate wall
15. Close-up of names, pan down across names
16. Close up of a hand pointing to a name engraved
17. Medium shot Trish Anderson pointing at her grandfather's name engraved
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Trish Anderson, whose grandfather died in Belgium during World War One, from Sydney, Australia:
It's very moving. I hadn't realised how much I would feel before I came. I didn't, It doesn't mean the same unless you come and have a look at it. In Australia, it's just an event that you know about.
19. Medium of flowers and wreaths on the memorial
20. Close-up on a wreath that reads: 'On behalf of the New Zealand defence'
21. Wide of wreaths and flowers, man is sitting in front of them
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Tracy Henderson, whose grandfather died in Belgium during World War One, from Auckland, New Zealand:
When you look at the ages on the headstones and everything it's really heartbreaking. I have got a son who is twenty-two and these boys were a lot younger than he is, you know.
23. Wide of Menin Gate memorial walls
24. Medium names engraved, old photo attached to a name that reads: 'Private Jack Mawle Huxley No. 2652', with poppy next to it
25. Close up of photo and poppy
STORYLINE:
ANZAC Day was commemorated on Wednesday in Ypres, Belgium, at the Menin Gate, a monument dedicated to the missing British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in battlefields in western Flanders during World War One.
ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day commemorates the estimated 3,600 New Zealanders and more that 13-thousand Australian servicemen who lost their lives in Ypres Salient.
2007 marks the 92nd ANZAC Day.
ANZAC forces fought in different battles at Ypres: the battles of Messines, Menin road, Polygonwood and the second Battle of Passchendaele.
Australian ambassador to Belgium Alan Thomas and New Zealand's ambassador Wade Armstrong, as well as a number of citizens from the two countries, came to pay their respects.
They laid wreaths and remembered the fallen.
Trish Anderson, whose grandfather was an Australian soldier who died in Belgium during World War One said: I hadn't realised how much I would feel before I came.
It doesn't mean the same unless you come and have a look at it, she added.
Tracy Henderson, whose grandfather was a soldier from New Zealand who died in Belgium during World War One, was moved by how young the fallen soldiers were.
I have got a son who is twenty-two and these boys were a lot younger than he is, she said.
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3rd Battle Ypres 1917 WW1 Footage Hell Fire Corner Menin Road Then And Now
Then and Now look at Hellfire Corner on Menin Road. Australian Divisions participated in the battles of Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcapelle and the First Battle of Passchendaele. In eight weeks of fighting Australian forces incurred 38,000 casualties.
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TYNE COT CEMETERY YPRES Drone 4K Belgium || Belgie Belgique
The Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Grave Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing is close to the city of Ypres in Belgium. This burial ground for the dead of the First World War is the largest cemetery of Commonwealth forces in the world. This footage was made in 4K Ultra High Definition Quality with the DJI Mavic Pro drone.
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