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Visit the Passchendaele Museum this winter

This year, the Passchendaele Museum in Zonnebeke will remain open longer than usual. For the first time, visitors can also explore the museum in December and throughout the Christmas period. They will discover the renewed museum, featuring a reworked storyline and an enhanced visitor experience. Renewed museum In the renewed Passchendaele Museum, an adapted and more chronological ...

Strong summer for the Passchendaele Museum

The Passchendaele Museum in Zonnebeke looks back with satisfaction on the summer of 2025. In July, 12,533 visitors came by, and in August, 7,562. Together, this amounts to 20,095 visitors, an increase of 8.2% compared to the summer of 2024. Chair Joachim Jonckheere is pleased with the results: ‘Many visitors found their way to our renovated museum during the summer holidays. No ...

Ieper: Commemoration St. Charles de Potyze (II) - 11/11

For many years now, the Armistice Day commemorations on 11 November in Ypres start on the French military cemetery of St. Charles de Potyze. This cemetery is located along the Zonnebeekseweg, the ...

Ploegsteert: Last Post - 05/12

Please find below some pictures of the Last Post ceremony at the Ploegsteert Memorial on Friday 5 December 2025. The Last Post at Ploegsteert takes place every first Friday of the month at 19.00hrs.    

Ieper: Ceremony Indian monument - 12/11

Please find below some pictures of the annual commemoration at the monument for the Indian soldiers near the Menin Gate in Ieper. The ceremony took place on Wednesday 12 November 2025 at 11.00 hrs.     

Ieper: Commemoration St. Charles de Potyze - 11/11

For many years now, the Armistice Day commemorations on 11 November in Ypres start on the French military cemetery of St. Charles de Potyze. This cemetery is located along the Zonnebeekseweg, the ...

Passendale: Rededication Service for Sergeant George Goodson Moore DCM - 12/11

Passendale - On Wednesday, 12 November 2025, at 9:30 a.m., a ceremony was held at the British Tyne Cot Cemetery in Passchendaele. Sergeant George Goodson Moore DCM was given a new gravestone bearing his name, thanks to research that proved he was indeed buried there.  Serjeant George Goodson Moore was born in 1895 in Southwark, London. He was one of three children born to George Goodson Colin ...

Passchendaele Museum looks back on a successful spring and ahead to an engaging summer

With 49,700 visitors since February 2025, the Passchendaele Museum looks back on a successful spring. The reopening on 5 April, following an extensive renewal, marked the start of a new chapter for the museum. Throughout the summer, the museum remains open daily, offering visitors an interactive introduction to the history of the First World War and the Battle of Passchendaele. An ...

A delegation of the Last Post Association (Ieper-Belgium) travels to Canada

On Friday, June 20th 2025, the Ypres’ Last Post Association travels to Halifax, Canada.  The delegation consists of director Patrick Donck and buglers Rik Vandekerckhove and Bavo Ketels. They travel to Canada for the unveiling of the restored Last Steps Memorial Arch in Halifax Harbor.   In August 2016, the Last Steps Memorial Arch was unveiled on a pier behind the Maritime ...

Passendale: Rededication Service for Lieutenant Norman Frederick Hunter - 12/11

On Wednesday, 12 November 2025, at 9:00 a.m., a ceremony was held at the British Tyne Cot Cemetery in Passchendaele. Lieutenant Norman Frederick Hunter was given a new gravestone bearing his name, thanks to research that proved he was indeed buried there.  The service was conducted by The Reverend David Jeal CF, Chaplain to The Royal Dragoon Guards. Lieutenant Norman Frederick ...

Passendale: Commemoration at Tyne Cot Cemetery - 11/11

On Armistice, 11 November 2025, the British Embassy organized a commemoration at Tyne Cot Cemetery at Passendale. Please find a number of pictures of this ceremony below.   

Passchendaele Museum reopens in full glory from 5 April 2025

The Passchendaele Museum in Zonnebeke will reopen in full glory from Saturday, 5 April 2025, following extensive renovations. The renewed Passchendaele Museum offers deeper insight into the history of the Battle of Passchendaele. With a revised storyline enriched by personal stories and authentic objects, the First World War truly comes to life within the castle. Since its opening in ...

Poelkapelle: Burial service for two soldiers - 16/10

On Thursday 16 Ocotber 2025 a burial service took place at Poelcapelle British Cemetery for an unknown British soldier and an unknown German soldier killed during the Great War. The ...

  • Experience war and peace in Flanders Fields

    The website Greatwar.be introduces you in the theme of the Great War in the In Flanders Fields region. The database contains an overview of all monuments, sites, locations, cemeteries, ... in Flanders Fields.

    Further on you will find the important events that remember the First World War, a list op publications, the musea, interesting websites and extensive historical information.

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