The Pool of Peace (or Lone Tree Crater) in Wijtschate is now a peaceful reminder of the great Mine Battle of June 1917....
In the early 1950s, in the midst of the Cold War, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Luxembourg and the Netherlands built a...
In the Hellegatstraat, some 300 metres from the church in Westouter, there is a memorial garden that commemorates the...
From 1916 onwards, the Allies attempted to undermine the German positions on the Wijtschate-Mesen ridge. The Germans knew...
The mass grave at the foot of Kemmel Hill contains the remains of 5 294 French soldiers, of whom just 57 are identified....
The castle or chateau of Kemmel stood to the north-west of the village and the cemetery was opened on the north side of...
Locre (now Loker) was in Allied hands during the greater part of the war, and field ambulances were stationed in the...
The village of La Clytte (De Klijte in Dutch) was used as a brigade headquarters. The first burials in this cemetery were...
La Laiterie was a dairy lying north-west of the road between Ieper and Kemmel. The cemetery was opened in November 1914...
Spanbroek mill - 'molen' is the Dutch word for 'mill' - stood to the south-west of the village of Wijtschate. The cemetery...
Lone Tree Cemetery is located close to the Lone Tree crater (also known as the of Spanbroekmolen crater), one of the 19...
Wijtschate was in French and British hands until 1 November 1914; from June 1917 to April 1918; and from 28 September 1918...
