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Category Archives: Ypres (Ieper)
Lankhof Farm Demarcation Stone & Bunkers
The road leads north to Ypres (Ieper), less than two miles ahead of us, but, as with so many places in Flanders, if you keep your eyes peeled, there are things to see on the way.
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A Tour of Boesinghe Prelude – Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery
If you follow the main road out of Ieper (Ypres) north towards Boezinge (Boesinghe during the Great War), after only a few minutes, Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery comes into view on the right hand side of the road.
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Another Trench at Ypres
Another newly acquired postcard, and again an image I haven’t seen anywhere else, this view of a captured French trench near Ypres was taken the day after the Germans’ first ever use of gas on 22nd April 1915, at the … Continue reading
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The First Trench at Ypres
Here’s an interesting postcard that came into my possession only this week. I often talk about how trenches in Flanders had to be built above ground due to the high water table, using whatever came to hand, and this photograph … Continue reading
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Ypres (Ieper) – The Cloth Hall: In Flanders’ Fields Museum
Late afternoon in a wintry Ieper, and, as we have a little time to spare, let’s pay a quick visit to the In Flanders’ Fields Museum, which you can find in the Cloth Hall (on the left above, of course), … Continue reading
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An Aussie in Flanders
A strip of camouflaged canvas from a downed German plane.
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