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14.10
- Lone Tree Cemetery on UNESCO-list
13.10
- Burial service for L.Cpl. C. S. Dell (Frank Mahieu)
06.10
- Ceremony for the Gheluwe Six
06.10
- Unveiling of UNESCO recognition of Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial
03.10
- Capt.Robertson and the Tank Corps remembered P3 (Frank Mahieu)
03.10
- Capt. Robertson VC & Tank Corps remembered P1 and P 2 (Frank Mahieu)
28.09
- Commemoration 108 years liberation of Passendale
24.09
- UNESCO plaques unveiled
22.09
- Rededication Service 2nd. Lieutenant Frank Fleming (Frank Mahieu)
04.09
- Last Post
24.08
- Unveiling 49th Battalion (Loyal Edmonton Regiment) monument
23.08
- 100 Years Memorial cross of the 16th Irish division
22.08
- Tank Memorial Ypres Salient remembers the August 1917 battle (Frank Mahieu).
19.08
- Centenary tribute 16th Div. Memorial (Frank Mahieu)
16.08
- Tribute to the Irish Divisions, to Father Doyle & Jimmy Speirs (Frank Mahieu)
08.08
- Last Post
01.08
- Tribute to the tankies by TMYS friends (Frank Mahieu)
15.07
- Funeral for unknown Commonwealth soldiers / Begrafenis 3 onbekende soldaten (Frank Mahieu)
07.07
- Rededication servive for Corporal Thomas Nigel McFarland
07.07
- rededication for Cpl Thomas N. McFarland (Frank Mahieu)
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Visiting Bayernwald - Wijtschate - 11/09/2022
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Visiting Bayernwald - Wijtschate - 11/09/2022
11/09/2022 - Wijtschate
On Open Monumentday 11 September 2022, the public could visit the site of Bayernwald at Wijtschate. The site has about 300 metres of German trenches of the Great War and is the largest trench system in Flanders.
View on the towers of Ieper from Bayernwald.
The map with the heights of Mesen and Wijtschate which played such an important role during the Great War.
Different German bunkers are still to be found at Bayernwald.
A recently restored part of the trenches.
The remembrance trees on the frontline. The red trees on the German frontline,
and the blue trees on the allied frontline.
Page made by WO1.be / Greatwar.be.
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