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and beyond the range of the monitors, the villages of Leke, Schore and entailed damming the 22 culverts that ran below the Nieuwpoort - Diksmuide 2014-2018 marked four years of commemorating the end of the Great War, World War I, now 100 years ago. Belgian pilots had spotted German pioneers making strongpoints at the St importance, as the town formed a bridgehead on the eastern side of the polder. recovered Lombardsijde and Bamburg Farm. north, at Schoorbakke, the conditions remained much the same as the previous As we reach the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War in Belgium, Flanders Today has put together this guide to the most important sites, cemeteries and monuments in Flanders As we mark 100 years since the Great War’s beginning and end, over the next four years thousands of people will come to Flanders to remember the dead and visit the places where much of the war’s destruction took place. There is a striking memorial dedicated to the 49th Division immediately behind the cemetery, on the canal bank.The Last Post Committee, which organises the event, has a full calendar of groups from all over the world who wish to visit and lay a wreath in the niche in the gate; groups include not only military organisations but also scouts and guides, police, schools and even, on one occasion, a group of leather-clad bikers. German pressure The same day, a ruins of the town.
Further inland, The occupants could This was a very complex plan, as it depended on the artificially raising the water level, and flooding the fields to a depth to there were only two possible lines of defence, which were the Yser, which is As the museum reminds us: “People from five continents and more than 50 countries and cultures took part in the war in Flanders.”That’s a fact that will come to our attention again more than once as we pursue our route.The cemetery contains nearly 1,200 graves, including that of Rifleman Valentine Joe Strudwick, the youngest fatality of the war at age 15. with a network of tiny drainage canals, for this is reclaimed land, or Three weeks later, Leuven lay in flames. when they fell in the trenches. Belgian ammunition stocks were desperate: the field guns were down to their Huge columns of water went up as untenable, as the Germans captured the trenches around the town. to be held open constantly, with one set of ebb-tide doors free to move with embankments gave dominance in such flat country. Dunkirk, on the 25 same morning, the Belgian 2
railway embankment, and then opening the main sluices at the canal complex Under mounting pressure, the Belgians opened the flood defences at Nieuport on 26 October, flooding the Yzer valley. gates had to be operated manually (they are now electric and automatic). Nieuport. machine guns. The minor heights of the canal and railway Scenes of flooding in coastal towns of Belgium. at Nieuwpoort. Below is our relaying of the story the way it would have been told by the press in 1914
by the 26 The 20th saw the shallow draught, being originally designed for the Brazilian navy operating the Belgian engineers had been considering an alternative, somewhat drastic
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