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Province of West Flanders
- Most of the war memorials in Flanders can be found in the Province of West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), which comprises the arrondissements of Bruges, Diksmuide, Ypres, Kortrijk, Ostend, Roeselare, Tielt and Veurne.
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Most of the war memorials in Flanders can be found in the Province of West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), which comprises the arrondissements of Bruges, Diksmuide, Ypres, Kortrijk, Ostend, Roeselare, Tielt and Veurne.
- Nieuport Memorial to the Missing (CWGC)
- German Military Cemetery Vladslo.
- Crypt Yser Tower.
- Belgian Military Cemetery Oeren.
A new map shows all First World War military cemeteries in the West-Flanders' area. All existing cemeteries are marked, as well as 530 exhumed and cleared places. The overleaf provides information and interpretation of this commemorative landscape.
The remembrance of the First World War will always live on in Flanders. In places such as the Menin Gate, where the Last Post sounds every evening, Tyne Cot Memorial and Cemetery (the largest Commonwealth military cemetery in the world) and the many, many memorials dedicated to the fallen and the missing. Also, the poem, ‘In Flanders Fields ...
War Memorials in Flanders and Picardy. The first itinerary examines the architectural consequences of the Great War of 1914-1918 in Belgium, that is, that is, the war cemeteries and memorials to be found along the section of the Western Front around the Ypres Salient.
One of the most famous war memorials in the world, the Ypres Menin Gate, is a key part of the city and home to the nightly Last Post service, where residents and visitors to the city pay tribute to all those who died during the war.
The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war.
