Category Archives: Zillebeke

It’s been a long tour, but at last we arrive at our final destination, Spoilbank Cemetery, named after the banks of spoil heaped nearby when the cutting for the now disused Ypres-Comines canal was originally dug.  520 men, one fifth of them … Continue reading →

On leaving the Bluff we need only travel half a mile or so west to reach the final two cemeteries on our tour. Only a few hundred yards apart, these cemeteries contain more than 900 British burials, mainly from between early … Continue reading →

Now Baldrick and I rarely do things the easy way, so no real surprise when we find ourselves failing dismally to find the entrance to Woods Cemetery.  Luckily for us the logs to the right of the photograph give us an … Continue reading →

1st D.C.L.I. Cemetery, The Bluff.  The spires of Ypres on the horizon show not only how close the front lines here were to the city in 1915, but also how strategically important this slightly higher ground was to whoever could claim it, and why it … Continue reading →

Our journey continues east until we reach the little village of Verbrande Molen.  Here, our road turns south beneath the low range of wooded hills (known as the Bluff and fought over almost continuously for much of the war due to the close … Continue reading →

Just a couple of minutes drive east from Railway Dugouts, a CWGC signpost points us away from the road down a short track towards Blauwepoort Farm Cemetery.