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WORLD WAR 1
WORLD WAR 2
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MAIN SITES VISITED ON THE ITINERARIES
Bunkers, Preserved Sites: Bayernwald; Dixmuide
Trenches of Death; Essex Farm Dressing Station;
Hellfire Corner Demarcation Stone; Hill 60; Sanctuary
Wood; Yorkshire Trench, Boezinge; Zandvorde Bunker;
Ziegler Bunker
Cemeteries: Brandhoek;
Essex Farm; Langemarck German; In Flanders Field,
American; Lijssenthoek; Poelkapelle; St Charles
de Percy, French; Tyne Cot
Memorials: Brooding
Soldier; French, Kemmel; Island of Ireland Tower;
Menin Gate; New Zealand, Mesen, Polygon Wood;
; Ploegsteert; Tyne Cot;
Museums: In
Flanders Fields; Hill 60; Hooge Crater; Ijzer
Tower; Ramparts, Sanctuary Wood; Talbot House;
Ijser Tower& Trenches of Death, Dixmuide.
Towns, Villages: Cassel; Dixmuide; Ieper,
Kemmel; Mesen; Passchendaele; Ploegsteert; Poperinghe;
Vlamertinghe; Wijtschaete; Zillebeke; Zonnebeke |
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CONTENTS
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- How to Use this Guide
- Historical Summary
- Approach One: Calais via Lijssenthoek CWGC
Cem to Ypres
- Approach Two: Calais via Cassel and Flanders
Hills to Ypres
- Itinerary One: Ypres-Passchendaele-Zonnebeke-Ypres
- Itinerary Two: Ypres-Langemarck-Poperinghe-Ypres
- Itinerary Three: Ypres-Plugstreet-Kemmel-Ypres
- Long Extra Visits: Ypres-Diksmuide
Geluveld-In Flanders Field US Cem
- The War Underground/1917 Crater Route
- Allied & German Wargraves & Commemorative
Associations
- Tourist Information
- Indexes: Forces, Memorials, Museums etc,
War Cemeteries, General
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BATTLEFIELD MAP WITH THIS BOOK
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Major
& Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide
to the Ypres Salient
A
completely revised and much-expanded edition -
with 32 new pages, many new photos, memorials
and roads - of the first book in the Holts' best-selling
Battlefield Guides series. A completely new
section is included on the War Underground and
the 1917 Mine Craters. Like all the books
in the series it is the most comprehensive and
up-to-date guide to the area, yet is far more
than a mere guidebook: it is an encyclopaedic
summary of the four WW1 Battles of Ypres and the
region in which they were fought. Descriptions
of every element of the battle are woven into
a kaleidoscope of human, literary and travel details
and every site has an accompanying description
and tale of heroic or tragic action:
- … here lie: Noel Chavasse, the double VC/15-year
old Private Strudwick / three Albert Medal
winners/the poets 'Hedd Wyn' and Francis Ledwidge
/ the great-great grandson of Paul Revere
/ Prince Maurice of Battenberg…
- … here John McCrae wrote In Flanders Fields
- … here the Worcesters saved the day 31 Oct
1914
- … here Julian Grenfell was mortally wounded
- … here the flame thrower/chlorine gas was
first used
- … here Winston Churchill fought in the trenches
- … here 'Old Bill' was born
It
includes:
- Two different approach routes and three
recommended, timed, itineraries
- A new section on the War Underground and
1917 Crater Route
- Sketch maps to all the approaches and itineraries
- Two long Extra Visits
- Memorials, museums, preserved trenches,
craters, bunkers
- American, Belgian, Commonwealth and French
War Graves
- Information about the Allied and German
War Graves Associations
- Historical background to the Four Battles
of Ypres
- The history of Ypres before and after the
Great War
- Useful tourist information
- Full colour illustrations throughout
Packaged with
and Map References throughout to MAJOR &
MRS HOLT'S BATTLE MAP OF THE YPRES SALIENT
This unique detailed 4-colour, double-sided
map shows modern roads, existing craters and
bunkers, memorials, museums, cemeteries, the
battle lines of First, Second and Third Ypres,
the Gas Attack and Messines, 50m contours and
all features of WW1 interest in the area. |
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The Brooding Soldier
This 35ft-high statue of a Canadian Soldier
with bowed head and hands resting on arms reversed
was described by the author and WW1 veteran Henry
Williamson as 'the genius of Man rising out of
stone'. It marks the spot where the Canadians
withstood the gas attack of 22-24 April 1915 and
lost 2,000 men.
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Tyne Cot Cemetery / Grave of Jeffries, VC
With 11,871 graves this is the largest CWGC Cemetery.
Behind the graves area is the memorial wall bearing
35,000 names of the Missing from August 1917 to
the end of the war. Capt Jeffries won his VC taking
one of the pill boxes that still stand in the
cemetery today. |
 Household
Cavalry Memorial, Zandvoorde
This elegant obelisk marks the action of the Life
Guards and Royal Horse Guards of 30 October 1914.
It is on the site of the original grave of Lt
Lord Charles Sackville Pelham Worsley, recently
married brother-in-law of Lady Haig.
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The preserved trenches, Sanctuary Wood
This is one of the most visited sites in the Salient.
The family of Jacques Schier, the current owner,
threw a fence around the battle-scarred area and
built a museum beside the trenches and shattered
trees. |
 Hellfire
Corner Demarcation Stone
This is one of many Demarcation Stones erected
after the war by the Touring Clubs of Belgium
and France to mark the furthest part of the German
advance along the front line. |
 German
Cemetery, Langemarck
The cemetery contains 44,292 burials, of which
25,000 are in a mass grave. It was visited by
Adolf Hitler (who fought in the Salient) during
his 1940 battlefield tour. |
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 The
Dressing Station, Essex Farm Here Canadian
Medical Officer Col John McCrae tended the wounded
from the April 1915 gas attack and wrote his immortal
poem, In Flanders Fields |
Kruisstraat Craters
Aerial view of these well-preserved, water-filled
craters dating from the mines blown at the start
of the Third Ypres battle. The mine tunnel was
dug by 205th and 182nd Tunnelling Coys, who handed
over to the 3rd Canadians and it was finished
by 175th and 171st Tunnelling Coys . |
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There
are 212 coloured illustrations like these in the book.
Do
not go without it |
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