officially British Territory, the walls record 54,856 British

& Empire Soldiers with no

known grave.  Last Post service every evening at 8.00p.m. The gate is closed

at this time to traffic & the

Ieper Fire Brigade Buglers sound the Last Post - a living respect of the fallen

             Talbot House - Poperinge

                 www.talbothouse.be

please visit the web site for more information

The Inscription on the memorial plaque is that of Rudyard Kipling's poem 'The Coward' I could not look on Death, Which being known, Men lead me to him, blindfold and alone

Rudyard Kipling - Epitaphs of the War.  (Kipling lost his son Jack in World War I)

The Pax Tower stands high on horizon in Diksmuide.

the Yser (PAX) Tower has been officially recognized as a memorial to the Flemish Community due to the fact that a strong felling of Flemish consciousness arose here in the trenches.  From the top of the 84metre tower you can benefit from good views of the front area, while within the tower there is always a good exhibition running.  Within the grounds are also the PAX - gateway as well as the ruins of the first Yser Tower, which was blown up, and a crypt with the remains of a number of Flemish leaders.

on the N8 road out of Ieper in the direction of Gelveld - Excellent Cafe for more information visit www.hoogecrater.com

privately owned and well worth a visit.

Trenches and Canadian Monument.

Sign Posted off N8 just after Round-about. Cafe said to have improved !

Tyne Cot Cemetery (Passendale)

thelargest of the Commonwealth cemeteries

in the World - when the walls of the Menin

Gate were full with no more room for the

names of the fallen in World War I with no known grave a wall was built at Tyne Cot

to continue the record some 34,984 names

were inscribed to the wall and they are continuing to be added to.  You should also

visit the Memorial Museum Passsendale -to hear the Flanders story.

Worcestershire Regiment & The South Wales Borderes Monument - Guleveld

On the 31st October 1914 there was heavy fighting for Geluveld.  After the Germans had captured the village, the mill and Chateau were retaken for some time by the men of the Worcestershire Regiment and the South Wales Borderers.  Two memorial remember this action and the mill and chateau were later rebuilt on their original sites.

Not always easy to find.

Brooding Soldier - Sint Juliaan

On the N313 out of Ieper (Ypres) this Canadian Monument stands - 12m. high, a Canadian Soldier who, with his bowed head and hands resting on rifle butt is looking over his 18,000 fallen comrades.

Artillery Wood Cemetery to be found on the road between Langemark and Boezinge is the resting place of two Celtic poets who fell on the same day - the Welsh poet Hedd Wynn - Ellis Humphrey Evans and Ireland's poet Edward Ledwidge both fell on the 31st July, 1917.