Ypres Salient
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- Published: 11 May 2011
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A slideshow featuring some of the cemeteries and sights of the Ypres Salient.
Ypres Salient
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Baptism of Fire: The Canadians at Ypres 1915 - Part 1
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- Duration: 10:01
- Published: 18 May 2011
- Uploaded: 09 Aug 2011
- Author: quickscope2011
Part 1 of 5 With historian Norm Christie as our guide we explore the battlefields, cemeteries, and monuments of the First World War. In their own words, the men who fought tell their stories, and we discover how the naïve, amateur soldiers of 1914 became, by 1918, perhaps the most feared, efficient, and deadly Allied Corps on the Western Front the Canadian Corps. Fresh off the boat, Canada's amateur soldiers march straight to the most most dangerous sector on the Western Front, the bulge in the Allied line around the Belgian city of Ypres, the bulge known as the Ypres Salient. Within days, the untried Canadians confront Germany's new secret weapon and the first mass poisoned gas attack in history. Fought to a bloody finish, the battle of Ypres 1915 signals the beginning of total war.
Ypres Salient 2009
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- Duration: 6:32
- Published: 30 Aug 2009
- Uploaded: 18 Sep 2009
- Author: cookiechem
Every year my Dad and I indulge our interest in WW1 by touring the battlefields of France and Belgium. This is the video and photo highlights of our visit to the Ypres Salient in May 2009
"Day of Memorials" Harmer56's photos around Ieper, Belgium (ieper salient blogs)
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- Duration: 1:42
- Published: 09 Mar 2011
- Uploaded: 25 Jun 2011
- Author: TripAdvisorTRIPWOW2
Preview of Harmer56's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Ieper, Belgium Entry Title: "Day of Memorials" Entry: "This morning we woke up to pouring rain and bitterly cold weather. Charlotte cooked us a very hearty breakfast before we headed into the markets in Ieper. The rest of the day was spent looking at the numberous war memorials around the area such as Tyne Cot, which is the burial place of 30000 Allied troops. It was a spectacular cemetary......a huge contrast to the German memorials that we came across. They were dark and had no tombstones, just black plaques. Although relations between the nations have been smoothed over time, there are still reminders such as this of the huge divide that once existed. Tonight we visited the most moving place I have ever been to, Menin Gate. The last post has been played here every night since 1928 as a memorial to the dead of WWI. Above the monument are recorded the words "Here are recorded names of officers and men who fell in Ypres salient but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death". The most striking thing was the number of Australian soldiers named in the memorial. More than 10000 young men, whose bodies were never recovered from the battlefield." Read and see more at: www.travelpod.com Photos from this trip: 1. "German memorial" 2. "Menen <b>...</b>
Baptism of Fire: The Canadians at Ypres 1915 - Part 2
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- Duration: 10:01
- Published: 18 May 2011
- Uploaded: 05 Jun 2011
- Author: quickscope2011
Part 2 of 5 With historian Norm Christie as our guide we explore the battlefields, cemeteries, and monuments of the First World War. In their own words, the men who fought tell their stories, and we discover how the naïve, amateur soldiers of 1914 became, by 1918, perhaps the most feared, efficient, and deadly Allied Corps on the Western Front the Canadian Corps. Fresh off the boat, Canada's amateur soldiers march straight to the most most dangerous sector on the Western Front, the bulge in the Allied line around the Belgian city of Ypres, the bulge known as the Ypres Salient. Within days, the untried Canadians confront Germany's new secret weapon and the first mass poisoned gas attack in history. Fought to a bloody finish, the battle of Ypres 1915 signals the beginning of total war.
Baptism of Fire: The Canadians at Ypres 1915 - Part 3
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- Duration: 10:00
- Published: 18 May 2011
- Uploaded: 20 May 2011
- Author: quickscope2011
Part 3 of 5 With historian Norm Christie as our guide we explore the battlefields, cemeteries, and monuments of the First World War. In their own words, the men who fought tell their stories, and we discover how the naïve, amateur soldiers of 1914 became, by 1918, perhaps the most feared, efficient, and deadly Allied Corps on the Western Front the Canadian Corps. Fresh off the boat, Canada's amateur soldiers march straight to the most most dangerous sector on the Western Front, the bulge in the Allied line around the Belgian city of Ypres, the bulge known as the Ypres Salient. Within days, the untried Canadians confront Germany's new secret weapon and the first mass poisoned gas attack in history. Fought to a bloody finish, the battle of Ypres 1915 signals the beginning of total war.
Baptism of Fire: The Canadians at Ypres 1915 - Part 4
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- Duration: 10:00
- Published: 18 May 2011
- Uploaded: 20 May 2011
- Author: quickscope2011
Part 4 of 5 With historian Norm Christie as our guide we explore the battlefields, cemeteries, and monuments of the First World War. In their own words, the men who fought tell their stories, and we discover how the naïve, amateur soldiers of 1914 became, by 1918, perhaps the most feared, efficient, and deadly Allied Corps on the Western Front the Canadian Corps. Fresh off the boat, Canada's amateur soldiers march straight to the most most dangerous sector on the Western Front, the bulge in the Allied line around the Belgian city of Ypres, the bulge known as the Ypres Salient. Within days, the untried Canadians confront Germany's new secret weapon and the first mass poisoned gas attack in history. Fought to a bloody finish, the battle of Ypres 1915 signals the beginning of total war.
Tyne Cot memorial pictures and video
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- Duration: 1:26
- Published: 02 Feb 2009
- Uploaded: 05 Oct 2010
- Author: ferarilambo
The Tyne Cot Memorial 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. The Salient was formed during the First Battle of Ypres in October and November 1914, when a small British Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing the town before the onset of winter, pushing the German forces back to the Passchendaele Ridge. The Second Battle of Ypres began in April 1915 when the Germans released poison gas into the Allied lines north of Ypres. This was the first time gas had been used by either side and the violence of the attack forced an Allied withdrawal and a shortening of the line of defence. There was little more significant activity on this front until 1917, when in the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of Passchendaele. The German offensive of March 1918 met with some initial success, but was eventually <b>...</b>
Baptism of Fire: The Canadians at Ypres 1915 - Part 5
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- Duration: 6:41
- Published: 18 May 2011
- Uploaded: 25 May 2011
- Author: quickscope2011
Part 5 of 5 With historian Norm Christie as our guide we explore the battlefields, cemeteries, and monuments of the First World War. In their own words, the men who fought tell their stories, and we discover how the naïve, amateur soldiers of 1914 became, by 1918, perhaps the most feared, efficient, and deadly Allied Corps on the Western Front the Canadian Corps. Fresh off the boat, Canada's amateur soldiers march straight to the most most dangerous sector on the Western Front, the bulge in the Allied line around the Belgian city of Ypres, the bulge known as the Ypres Salient. Within days, the untried Canadians confront Germany's new secret weapon and the first mass poisoned gas attack in history. Fought to a bloody finish, the battle of Ypres 1915 signals the beginning of total war.
MENIN GATE: Ypres (Ieper) BELGIUM - DAILY LAST POST CEREMONY
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- Duration: 3:05
- Published: 10 Oct 2010
- Uploaded: 21 Jul 2011
- Author: supercanadiandude
CANADIANS at The Last Post Ceremony on May 3rd, 2010 at Menin Gate, Ypres (Ieper), Belgium, with thousands of high school students in attendance. Filmed during the 'Victory In Europe Tour' from 'Paris to Berlin' through EF Tours. This Last Post post has been played by the local Fire Brigade every day at 8pm since the end of World War One. Filmed and edited by Jonathan Wagner. The Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium dedicated to the commemoration of British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are unknown. The memorial is located at the eastern exit of the town and marks the starting point for one of the main roads out of the town that led Allied soldiers to the front line. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and built by the British government, the Menin Gate Memorial was unveiled on 24 July 1927. Available in full HD 1080p. Official Menin Gate Website: www.lastpost.be View all the Victory In Europe Tour Videos Here: joniwagner.wordpress.com Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: tinyurl.com
Hill 60, Ieper (Ypres) Belgium
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- Duration: 2:52
- Published: 15 Dec 2008
- Uploaded: 16 Jun 2011
- Author: VideoHistoryToday
Hill 60, so named because of the map contour around the site, is located about 2 miles south east of Ieper. In the Great War, its height and location made it a focus of fighting on the Ypres Salient. Of particular note, although not so clear in this 2D video, is the current undulating nature of the preserved Hill 60 site. It is full of concrete bunkers but also vast areas of mine and artillery craters. No doubt, Hill 60 was both an important location to hold militarily but a damned awful place to hold and live. Corrections to commentary: 1. I keep saying Hill 62!! This is Hill 60. 2. I have been advised by Simon (Belgium) that the large above ground bunker seen in this video is Aussie made not German.Please take a look at Video History Today www.videohistorytoday.com , the first web site to offer unique collections of re-usable original video clips designed for teachers and students. The idea behind Video History Today is to give schools the raw material to make mini-documentaries and video essays on historical subjects. Initial packages focus on World War I (Somme and Ieper areas), The Holocaust, the American Civil War and D-Day & Normandy 1944.
Menin Gate, Ypres
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- Duration: 0:37
- Published: 27 Feb 2007
- Uploaded: 04 Nov 2010
- Author: julieanitalowe
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, Belgium. It bears the names of 55000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in WW1. Erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission. In the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words: TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 pm All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post.
Talbot House Chapel, Poperinge, August 2009
This is the chapel in the attic of Talbot house, which was a rest center for troops coming out of the trenches for a while, in the Ieper (Ypres) salient, during The Great War (WW1). Talbot House is in Poperinge, in West Flanders, Belgium. Up to 170 soldiers at a time used to cram themselves into this small room, to attend a service. This will be posted on my blog BBE's video snapshots at bbevta.blogspot.com and at a later date there will be photographs of Talbot House also on the blog.
Yorkshire Trench & Dugout site, Boesinge, Ieper, Belgium
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- Duration: 7:07
- Published: 21 Aug 2010
- Uploaded: 02 Jan 2011
- Author: VideoHistoryToday
Tour of the Yorkshire tranch and dugout site at Boesinge, near Ieper, Belgium. Discovered in the centre of an industrial estate, this relatively small section of original trench and underground dugout was excavated and preserved by a group of volunteers called the Diggers. Opened in 2003, the site is difficult to find, small compared to Sanctuary Wood and like the Trenches of Death near Diksmuide, rebuilt using concrete sand bags. However, the effort to find the site is well worth it and even its location, surrounded by warehouses, industrial units and wind turbines, strangely adds to the poignancy: if the Germans had won the war, would all this be here?
Ypres - Ieper - WW1 - Belgium - Menin Gate Last Post- A visit to the Battlefields area January 2011
A visit to the Ypres Salient Battlefield Area in January 2011. Following in part, my grandfather's battalion's (17th Royal Scots) war diary. A visit on behalf of the family of Pte John Tait to Bard Cottage Cemetery. A look at Yorkshire Trench and the Messines Ridge area. At the end of the video is the Last Post ceremony of 9th January 2011.
Menin Gate Ceremony
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- Duration: 10:00
- Published: 17 Apr 2009
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- Author: M14A4BulldogTank
The full Menin Gate Ceremony. Where every day through rain or snow at 8pm the last post is sounded in hounour of the men who marched through Ieper (Ypres) in order of defending the Salient.
Ieper Last Post YSPD 12 maart 2011
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- Published: 21 Mar 2011
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- Author: bergvitamientje
Last Post Ceremony Ieper + YSPD 12.03.2011 Het dagelijks eerbetoon De Last Post, traditioneel de laatste groet aan de gesneuvelden, wordt door de klaroeners uitgevoerd ter ere van de soldaten van het toenmalige Britse Rijk en van de geallieerden die in Wereldoorlog I in de 'Ypres Salient' gesneuveld zijn. De Last Post Association stelt zich tot doel om deze plechtigheid eeuwig in stand te houden. This daily tribute - performed by a team of local buglers - serves to honour the memory of the soldiers of the British Empire, who fought and died in the immortal Ypres Salient during the First World War. It is the aim of the Last Post Association to maintain this ceremony in perpetuity. ■ZONTA INT Area 05 ■ANPCV ■Ypres Surrey Pipe's & drum's band : YSPD ■Squadron of Reserve Soldier
De Grote Oorlog in Vlaanderen - The Great War in Flanders
Een collage van historische foto's afgewisseld met eigen (oudere) dia's over de Eerste Wereldoorlog. De dia's werden hoofdzakelijk genomen in de Westhoek en meer bepaald in en rond Ieper (the Ypres Salient).. A composition of historical photographs combined with my own (older) slides on the First World War, mainly taken in and around Ypres and the Ypres Salient
Ypres
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- Duration: 4:20
- Published: 11 Jul 2008
- Uploaded: 29 Aug 2010
- Author: Ambrosiahotel
This video shows the beauty of Ypres. A small, lovely, lovely town with a rich history.
Last Post Ieper Belgium Part 1
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- Duration: 0:47
- Published: 02 Nov 2007
- Uploaded: 27 Aug 2010
- Author: BelgiansUtah
Every evening since 1928, at precisely eight o'clock, the Last Post - the traditional salute to the fallen warrior - has been played under the Menin Gate Memorial in Ieper, Belgium. This daily tribute - performed by a team of local buglers - serves to honour the memory of the soldiers of the British Empire, who fought and died in the immortal Ypres Salient during the First World War. It is the aim of the Last Post Association to maintain this ceremony in perpetuity.
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The inscription on the top of the Menin Gate, Ieper, Belgium
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Ypres Salient
The Ypres Salient is the area around Ypres in Belgium which was the scene of some of the biggest battles in World War I.
Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)
Yser
The Ypres League
Dendooven, D and J Dewilde, The Reconstruction of Ieper - A walk through history Openbaar Kunstbezit in Vlaanderen 1999 ISBN 90-76099-26-X
Holt, T and V, Major and Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to the Ypres Salient Leo Cooper Pen and Sword 2003 ISBN 0-85052-551-9
FirstWorldWar.com
Association for World War Archaeology; information about World War 1 excavations in the Ypres Salient
In military terms, a salient is a battlefield feature that projects into enemy territory. Therefore, the salient is surrounded by the enemy on three sides, making the troops occupying the salient vulnerable. The enemy's line facing a salient is referred to as a re-entrant (an angle pointing inwards). A deep salient is vulnerable to being "pinched out" across the base, forming a "pocket", in which the defenders of the salient become trapped, isolated and easier to overcome. This gives attackers an overwhelming advantage: defenders can be attacked from all sides with artillery and/or machinegun fire. However, since the defenders are completely surrounded, they cannot easily be re-supplied (with food, ammunition and medical supplies etc) or escape. The "pocket" progressively reduces in size as the defenders are worn down and the attackers advance. The decreasing size of the pocket allows even more concentrated gunfire to be aimed at the defenders. Eventually, the defenders are overwhelmed by this onslaught and the pocket collapses.
The Ypres salient was formed by British, French, Canadian and Belgian defensive efforts against German incursion during the 1914 "Race to the Sea", culminating in the Battle of the Yser and the First Battle of Ypres.
These battles saved the Ypres salient and the corner of Belgium around Veurne from occupation, but also led to the beginning of trench warfare in the salient as both sides "dug in" around the line. The area of the salient is mostly flat, with few rises or hills. Those that did exist became the focus for the 1915 Second Battle of Ypres, which saw the first use of gas and the almost total destruction and evacuation of Ypres, and the 1917 Third Battle of Ypres at Passchendaele.
After the third battle, the Ypres salient was left relatively quiet until the Fourth Battle of Ypres, the Battle of the Lys, when the Spring Offensive threatened to overwhelm the entire area. This offensive was stopped at the point the Allies were closest to being forced to abandon the salient. By August 1918, the Fifth Battle of Ypres (part of the Hundred Days Offensive) pushed the German forces out of the salient entirely and they did not return.
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