100 Jaar Groote Oorlog the Great War Centenary

100 JAAR GROOTE OORLOG THE GREAT WAR CENTENARY

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Na vele intense jaren ligt ‘100 Jaar Groote derden mensen zich hebben ingespannen Oorlog’ achter ons. Dit boek kijkt met veel om die verhalen zorgvuldig en tactvol te verwondering terug op ‘100 Jaar Groote Oor- brengen in kunstwerken, tentoonstellingen, log’ en de onvergetelijke projecten waaraan events en musea. Of gewoon, van mens tot we werkten. mens.

Ja, het is een selectieve terugblik die de bij- Laat ons niet vergeten – zeker niet die kwa- drage van Toerisme Vlaanderen in de her- lijke oorlog, maar ook niet deze eeuwherdenking als uitgangspunt neemt. Een breder, denking en de vele mensen die elkaar von- objectiever beeld laten we graag over aan de den om te herinneren, om te discussiëren, wetenschap en de media. om samen iets tot stand te brengen.

Bezoekersaantallen en andere economische Dit fotoboek wil dié herinnering vasthouden kengetallen vindt u ook niet op de volgende – het is gemaakt uit dankbaarheid. bladzijden. Dat we onze doelen ruim hebben gehaald, mag hier nu volstaan. Liever sta ik stil bij de diepere betekenis van de eeuwherdenking: dat honderdduizenden mensen naar Vlaanderen kwamen om zich te bezin- Peter De Wilde nen over oorlog. Dat ze de kans kregen om Administrateur-generaal anderen te ontmoeten, met andere verhalen Toerisme Vlaanderen vanuit andere tijden en plekken. Dat hon- 19 november 2018

6 After many years of intense work, the Great fact that hundreds of people worked hard War Centenary is behind us. This book looks to carefully and tactfully tell these stories back in wonder on the Great War Centenary through art, exhibitions, events and muse- and the unforgettable project we worked ums. Or simply from person to person. on. Let us not forget – neither the horrific war It is a selective review that takes the con- nor this commemoration and the many tribution made by VISITFLANDERS to the people who came together to remember, commemoration as its starting point. We’ll discuss and create something together. leave a broader, more objective overview to the academics and media. This photo book offers a permanent record of the commemoration; it is the result of You won’t find any visitor numbers or other deep gratitude. economic results on the following pages. The fact that we achieved our goals is enough. I would rather focus on the deeper significance of the 100-year commemoration: the fact that hundreds of thousands of people came to Flanders to reflect on the war. That they were given the opportunity Peter De Wilde to meet other people, with different stories CEO VISITFLANDERS from different times and locations. And the 19 November 2018

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DE AANLOOP WARMING UP

9 2012

Al enkele jaren werkt Toerisme Vlaanderen achter de VISITFLANDERS has already been working ‘behind schermen aan de voorbereiding van ‘100 Jaar Groote the scenes’ on preparations for the Great War Oorlog’. Er is een voorstudie, samen met Westtoer. Er Centenary for a few years. A preliminary study is komt een subsidieronde voor investeringsprojecten conducted with Westtoer. There is a subsidy round in bezoekersinfrastructuur (44 projecten, 15 miljoen for investment projects in visitor infrastructure (44 euro) en twee subsidierondes voor evenementen projects, 15 million euros) and two subsidy rounds tijdens de herdenkingsjaren (24 projecten, 10,9 mil- for events during the commemoration years (24 joen euro). Toerisme Vlaanderen stelt het geld ter projects, 10.9 million euros). VISITFLANDERS provi- beschikking, maar het zijn de vele projectpartners des the money but it is the many project partners die het echte werk op het terrein aanvatten. Al in who actually carry out the work. A few results are 2012 worden de eerste resultaten zichtbaar… already clear by 2012...

/ Memorial10 Museum Passchendaele 1917, Zonnebeke / Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, Zonnebeke

/ Bezoekerscentrum Lijssenthoek, Poperinge / Talbot House, Poperinge / Talbot House, Poperinge / Visitor Centre Lijssenthoek, Poperinge / In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper / In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres

12 / Bezoekerscentrum Lijssenthoek, Poperinge / Visitor Centre Lijssenthoek, Poperinge

OP TIJD…

In juni opent het In Flanders Fields Museum (Ieper) opnieuw de deuren, dubbel zo ruim en met een volledig vernieuwde inrichting. In de herfst volgt het nieuwe bezoekerscentrum bij Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, en de vernieuwde Dodencellen (beide Poperinge). Dat deze plekken zo snel klaar zijn zou een zegen blijken want vanaf 2013 gaat het aantal bezoekers fors de hoogte in.

ON TIME…

In June, the In Flanders Fields Museum (Ypres) opens its doors again, now with twice as much space and a completely renovated layout. In autumn, the new visitor centre at Lyssenthoek Military Cemetery follows suit, as do the updated Death Cells (both in Poperinge). The fact that these locations are ready so early turns out to be a blessing as the number of visitors begins to increase considerably from 2013.

/ Bezoekerscentrum Lijssenthoek, Poperinge / Dodencellen, Poperinge / Visitor Centre Lijssenthoek, Poperinge / Death Cells, Poperinge

13 14 De herdenking in Vlaanderen krijgt haar eigen logo. Een eerste brochure voor reisprofessionals geeft een overzicht van de herdenking in Vlaanderen voor een internationaal publiek. Er zouden nog vijf edities van deze ‘trade’-brochure volgen.

Ondertussen leren partners elkaars projecten beter kennen tijdens overlegmomenten, zoals de ‘Ont- moeting’ die Toerisme Vlaanderen in december in Brussel organiseert.

The commemoration in Flanders is given its own logo. The initial brochure for travel professionals provides an overview of the commemoration in Flanders for an international audience. Five further editions of this ‘trade’ brochure would follow.

In the meantime, partners are learning more about one another’s projects during meetings such as the ‘Ontmoeting’ that VISITFLANDERS organises in Brussels in December. 16 2013

READY, SET, GO READY, SET, GO

17 / Talbot House, Poperinge

18 / Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, Zonnebeke 2013 Koortsachtige activiteit, want het is de bedoeling om zo veel mogelijk investeringsprojecten tijdig af te hebben. Onder meer het Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 (Zonnebeke) en Talbot House (Poperinge) halen de meet dit jaar. Tegelijk zijn vaak dezelfde mensen en organisaties volop bezig evenementen voor te bereiden. De internationale promotie komt op kruissnelheid.

There is feverish activity because the idea is to have as many investment projects as possible completed on time. Organisations such as the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 (Zonnebeke) and Talbot House (Poperinge) cross the finish line this year. At the same time, it is often the same people and organisations that are working flat out to organise events. Interna- / Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, Zonnebeke tional promotion is coming up to speed.

19 OVER DE GRENZEN

Zo’n 50 Britse touroperators komen op uitnodiging van Toerisme Vlaanderen poolshoogte nemen. We- gens té grote belangstelling volgt in september een tweede editie, dit keer met 30 deelnemers waaronder voor het eerst enkele Ierse bedrijven.

Toerisme Vlaanderen neemt deel aan de Belgische handelsmissie naar India, en mag tijdens een toe- ristisch seminar niet alleen 80 Indische reisprofessionals begroeten, maar ook Prinses Astrid. De herdenking in Vlaanderen krijgt veel belangstelling.

/ Trade workshop 20 CROSSING BORDERS

VISITFLANDERS invites about 50 British tour op- erators to come and visit the region. A second trip is organised in September for another 30 partici- pants, including the first Irish companies.

VISITFLANDERS also takes part in the Belgian trade mission to India and is able to meet-and-greet not only 80 Indian travel professionals but also Princess Astrid during a tourism seminar. The commemoration in Flanders attracts a lot of attention.

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Vlaanderen is ‘premier partner’ op de belangrijkste professionele toerismebeurs ter wereld: WTM Londen. Voor de ruim 50.000 aanwezigen is ‘Flanders Fields’ onontkoombaar: op draagtassen, wandelgangen, eettafels, spandoeken… maar nog het meest op de gloednieuwe stand van Toerisme Vlaanderen.

WTM

Flanders is the ‘premier partner’ at the world’s number one professional tourism fair: WTM London. For the more than 50,000 visitors, ‘Flanders Fields’ is everywhere: on carrier bags, on walkways, on tables, on banners, and best of all, at the brand new stand for VISITFLANDERS.

22 23 / Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge / Lyssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge

VOOR IEDEREEN

‘100 Jaar Groote Oorlog’ moet een ervaring zijn die iedereen kan meemaken. Daarom bemiddelt het Steunpunt Vakantieparticipatie voor mensen met een kleine portemonnee. Voor personen met beper- kingen stippelt Toerisme Vlaanderen een uitdagend project uit om niet enkel voldoende ‘points of interest’ maar de héle vakantiebeleving zo toegankelijk / Toegankelijk Toerisme Award / Accessible Tourism Award / Talbot House, Poperinge mogelijk te maken. In 2013 wordt onze bestemming op WTM beloond met de ‘Accessible Tourism Award’.

24 EVERYONE INCLUDED

The Great War Centenary has to be an event in which everyone can take part. That is why Steun- punt Vakantieparticipatie (Holiday Participation Centre) represents people who have less money to spare. VISITFLANDERS also outlines a challenging project which aims to make not only a sufficient number of ‘points of interest’ but the entire holiday experience as accessible as possible for visitors with a disability. In 2013, our destination received the ‘Accessible Tourism Award’ at WTM. / Westfront, Nieuwpoort 25 DE CAMPAGNE START THE CAMPAIGN STARTS

November 2013: hoog tijd om te starten met de November 2013: it’s high time to start the publicity publiekscampagne. In onze toolkit zitten een reeks campaign. Our tool kit includes a series of cam- campagnebeelden, een sterke baseline en een filmpje. paign images, a strong baseline and a film. The Op Facebook gaat de pagina ‘flandersfields1418’ page ‘flandersfields1418’ goes live on Facebook. We online. We delen klaprooszaadjes uit. En dan is er hand out poppy seeds. And let’s not forget the nog het ‘Worldwide Poppyfield’, een app waarmee je ‘Worldwide Poppy field’, an app that allows you to een virtuele klaproos kunt planten ter nagedachtenis plant a virtual poppy to commemorate one of the van één van de 600.000 slachtoffers van de Groote 600,000 victims of the Great War in Belgium. The Oorlog in België. De ‘Namenlijst’ van het In Flanders ‘Names List’ of the In Flanders Fields Museum pro- Fields Museum is daarvoor de bron en inspiratie. vides a source of inspiration.

26 / Facebook Worldwide Poppy field app

27 ETHIEK

Zullen de toeristische spelers de herdenking wel zorgvuldig aanpakken? Of gaat de commerciële logica overheersen? Deze kritische vraag wordt meer dan eens gesteld. Westtoer neemt het voortouw om de ‘principes voor een ethisch en meerstemmig herdenkingstoerisme’ uit te puren. Wat intuïtief al aanwezig was, wordt nu een heldere toetssteen om bij te dragen tot een waardevolle herdenking.

ETHICS

Will the key tourism industry players handle the commemoration with the necessary sensitivity? Or will commercial considerations take precedence? This critical question is posed more than once. Westtoer takes the helm in refining the ‘principles of ethical and harmonious commemorative tourism’. The concepts, which had previously been in- tuitive, become clear cornerstones for contributing towards a valuable commemoration.

28 / ANZAC Day Ceremonie op Polygon Wood / ANZAC Day Ceremony at Polygon Wood Toegankelijkheid Accessibility Verdieping Deepening

Meerstemmigheid Internationalisering Internationalization Goed gastheerschap Multi-voiced Good hospitality Vredesboodschap Peace message

Respect Respect

/ Menenpoort, Ieper 29 / Meningate, Ypres 30 2014

IN DE SCHIJNWERPERS VAN DE WERELD THE WORLD IS WATCHING

31 2014 NEDERLAND En dan begint de eeuwherdenking. De media-aandacht And then the 100-year commemoration begins. Me- THE NETHERLANDS is enorm en komt uit alle hoeken van de wereld. Het dia coverage is vast and comes from all four corners is kwestie om die schijnwerpers ook op Vlaanderen te of the globe. It is now important to shine the spot- krijgen. We benadrukken dat je kunt reizen naar plek- light on Flanders too. We emphasise the fact that ken waar de sporen van de oorlog nog zichtbaar zijn. you can travel to locations where traces of the war Dat kan zeker in Vlaanderen, want we zijn klaar om de can still be seen. This is certainly true in Flanders as Source: ABTA Magazine {Main} Edition: Source: mirror.co.uk Country: UK Date: Thursday 6, November 2014 Date: Thursday 1, May 2014 Page: 44,45,46 bezoekers een unieke ervaring aan te reiken. we areArea: 1425ready sq. cm to offer visitors a unique experience. Circulation: ABC 12216 Quarterly Ad data: page rate £5,150.00, scc rate £0.00 Keyword: Visit Flanders Phone: 020 7253 9909 Keyword: YPRES

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28 DER TAGESSPIEGEL SONDERTHEMA NR. 22 058 / MITTWOCH, 28. MAI 2014 100 JAHRE ERSTER WELTKRIEG Gedenken und Erinnern in Berlin und Belgien CHINA Schönheit geschundener Landschaft In Ypern und Umgebung tobten einst blutige Schlachten – heute lädt die Region mit Fahrradrouten, Museen und Gedenkstätten zur Entdeckung ein

Von Rolf Brockschmidt Bewegender Ort in Ypern ist die Ge- risch bedeutenden Orten des Ersten Welt- sich ganz dem Gedenkjahr verschrieben. denkstätte Menentor, ein ehemaliges kriegs konzipiert, denn die Landschaft ist Krzysztof Penderecki hat unter Verwen- Stolz reckt sich der Belfried der lang ge- Stadttor, in dessen Bogen die Namen von neben den Museen, Gedenkstätten und dung von Texten von Erasmus und Spi- streckten Tuchhallen von Ypern in die 55 000GefallenenundVermisstengemei- Soldatenfriedhöfen, wo oft weiße Grab- noza ein Oratorium für 1000 Sänger aus Höhe – ein Zeugnis hoher flämischer Bau- ßelt wurden. Seit 1928 findet täglich um steine in Divisionsstärke das unvorstell- allen kriegsteilnehmenden Ländern und kunst und ein Denkmal der einst berühm- 20 Uhr eine Last-Post-Zeremonie statt, bare Ausmaß des Sterbens sinnfällig sym- ein Symphonieorchester komponiert, das ten flämischen Tuchindustrie. Doch der bei der vier Trompeter der Freiwilligen bolisieren, Teilder Erinnerung. am 9. November seine Welturaufführung beeindruckende Bau von 1304 ist nicht Feuerwehr Ypernin Dankbarkeit an dieje- Zu den neu gestalteten Museen gehört als Zeichen des Friedens erfahren wird. das Original, sondern die Rekonstruktion nigenerinnern,dieihreStadtverteidigtha- das Memorial Museum „Passchendaele Am Eingang des deutschen Soldaten- nach der völligen Zerstörung 1914 durch ben. Für eine Stunde ruht dann der Ver- 1917“ in Zonnebeke, wo allein innerhalb friedhofs in Vladlso steht die Skulptur deutsche Truppen . In den Tuchhallen be- kehr, der vom Zentrum der Stadt ins Um- findet sich heute das 2012 neu gestaltete land, den Ypern-Bogen führte. Tausende ANZEIGE „In Flanders Fields Museum“ (IFFM), alliierter Soldaten waren diesen Weg auf das seinen Namen nach dem berühmten das Schlachtfeld gegangen und nie wieder Gedicht von John McCrae erhalten hat. zurückgekehrt. DER ERSTE Das Museum erzählt mit mehr als 2000 Die Stille, die von 19 Uhr 30 bis 20 Uhr Exponaten, Touchscreens, interaktiven 30 die Zeremonie umschließt, kann einen Armbändern, Videoprojektionen und auch in der wunderschönen Umgebung Klanglandschaften die Geschichte dieser berühren. Denn es besteht ein bizarrer WELT Kontrast zwischen der lieblichen grünen flämischen Landschaft und dem Horror, 600000 Tonskulpturen sollen der hier vor 100 Jahren vier Jahre lang ge- KRIEG wütet und die Landschaft bis heute verän- 19141918 29.05.–30.1 1.20 14 an die Gefallenen erinnern dert hat. Besonders wenn die Mohnblu- Deutsches Historisches Museum ∙ Unter den Linden 2 ∙ 10117 Berlin ∙ www.dhm.de ∙ Täglich 10–18 Uhr Auf Flanderns Feldern blüht der Mohn men blühen, die ersten Blumen, die nach demTobenderSchlachtunddemUmpflü- heiß umkämpften Region. Es ist zugleich gen des Bodens durch Tausende von Gra- zentraler Ausgangspunkt für die Besu- naten wie zum Trotz immer wieder gedie- von 100 Tagen mehr als eine halbe Mil- „Trauernde Eltern“ von Käthe Kollwitz,Erlebte Geschichte auf den Schlachtfeldern des Ersten Weltkrieges in Belgien cher der Westhoek, der westlichsten hen.JohnMcCraehatsiemitseinembewe- lion Soldaten für gerade einmal acht Kilo- die sie ihrem Sohn gewidmet hat, der sich Ecke Flanderns, wo insgesamt 600000 genden Gedicht „In Flanders Fields“ be- meter Geländegewinn gefallen sind. Dort gegen ihren Willen freiwillig gemeldet Soldaten aller Nationen und Zivilisten rühmt gemacht. ist rekonstruiert, wie sich das Leben der hatte und mit 18 Jahren getötetFLANDERN wurde. In (ct). Vor 100 Jah- den Tod fanden oder vermisst wurden. 1918 steckteDer sich eineHügel Amerikanerin mit denBriten Königsgräbern etwa unter der Erdevon oderVergina in den wirktKoekelaere von befindetaußen sichren ein Käthe-Koll- begann das große Morden. Nicht umsonst wird Bundeskanzlerin An- im Gedenken an den im selben Jahr an Schützengräben abgespielt hat – im Som- witz-Museum. gela Merkel dieses Museum im Gedenk- einer Lungenentzündungrecht unscheinbar.. gestorbenen mer wie im Winter, bei Sonne, Regen,Fotos: Eis ChristianMit einem Wohlt internationalenDer Kunstpro-1. Weltkrieg. Die Urkata- jahr 2014 besuchen. Die flämische Regio- Dichter eine Mohnblume ans Revers und und Schnee. Der Yserturm bei Kaaskerke jekt „Comingworldrememberme“strophe wirddes 20. Jahrhunderts, nalregierung hat für die kommenden vier rasch hatten vor allem die Veteranenver- wurde in diesem Jahr ebenfalls als Mu- eine Verbindung zwischenwie den es 600000 heute prosaisch heißt. Jahre ein umfangreiches Gedenkpro- bände der Alliierten diese Tradition über- seum über den Ersten Weltkrieg neu kon- Opfern von damals und den Menschen gramm in Auftrag gegeben, das der Erin- Friedenssymbol. Die gotischen Tuchhallen von Ypern wurden 1914 von deutschen Truppen nommen. Heute istDas in den angelsächsi- Geheimniszipiert. im Hügelheute gelegt. JedermannWie kann ines einem damals wirklich war, nerung an den Ersten Weltkrieg gewid- zerstört. Heute beherbergt das Ensemble das „In Flanders Fields Museum“. Foto: visitflanders schen Ländern die rote Mohnblume das Aber auch die anderen flämischen kleinen Workshop eine Tonskulpturkann keiner er- ermessen. Ein Be- met, aber auch als nach vorne orientier- Zeichen des Gedenkens an die Toten al- Städte bieten ein umfangreichesDas Grab Pro- Königstellen, Phillip die mit II. einem ist Namen und einer tes internationales Friedensprojekt zu ler Kriege. Sie erinnertVERGINA an das (ct). Blut der Es istgramm nur zum eine Gedenkjahr. Brügge ist im öf- Kennmarke von der Gedenklistesuch in ver-Flandern, vermittelt verstehen ist. ges gefolgt. Bis zum 30. Juni ist „Krieg Das IFFM möchte aber auch einen Be- Soldaten, die inAutostunde der Blüte ihres LebensFahrt vonfentlichen der pul- Bewusstseineine wenigerder bedeutendsten als knüpft wird. So Ent- bekommteinen jedes Opfer kleinen ei- Eindruck. Das Museum erinnert vor allem an die und Trauma. Soldaten und Lazarette zug zur Gegenwart herstellen. Werimmer dahingerafft wurden.sierende Aber sie Metropole ist gleich- Kriegsschauplatz Thessalo- bekannt,deckungen hier hatten desnen vergangenen Paten. Idealerweise sindWie 600000 kaum ein anderer Ort ist Menschen, die unter dem Krieg zu leiden 1914–1918“ zu sehen. Nie zuvor waren einen Angehörigen während des Ersten zeitig eine fragile und anmutige Pflanze, die Deutschen ihren U-Boot-Stützpunkt. kleine Skulpturen bis 2018 entstanden, hatten. Mit einem interaktiven Armband, in einem Krieg so viele Verwundete auf Weltkriegsin Flandern verloren hat, kann deren Samen auchniki Schmerzen und doch lindern eineDie Reise historische weit StadtJahrhunderts diente ihnen als unddie dannfür alsdie großes Ma- Landart-ProjektYpern Symbol bei für die Schrecken das der Besucher am Eingang bekommt, einmal zu versorgen gewesen, das Laza- ihn dem wissenschaftlichen Dienst des kann, eine Blumein also die zwischen Geschichte Schön- Rückzugsort. Griechen- In denkedonier Stadthallen ein wird nationalesYpern für immer Heilig- ausgestelltdes werden Krieges – ein und heute Symbol wählt er eine Person, deren Schicksal er rettwesen entstand. In einer weiteren Museums melden. Ziel ist, die Namen al- heit und Tod. lands. Bei Vergina,vom im 14. Hoch- Oktober an dastum. Leben unterIn derjahrzehntelangeninternationales Mahnmal.des Friedens. Im April 1915, durch die ganze Ausstellung immer wie- Ausstellung in Gent widmet man sich aus- lerumsLebengekommenenMenschenal- Diese ambivalente Landschaft lässtsich deutschen Besatzung mit Fotos aus die- der verfolgen kann. führlich den psychischen Schäden der lerNationenzuerfassenunddiesedannje- von Ypernaus gutland mit dem Makedoniens, Rad erkunden. ser Zeit lebt dokumentiert. die Kämpfen machte Imer Internet:das Landwww.flandern.com/markierte der erste Gasangriff Zusätzlich wird in ständigen Wechsel- Kriegsteilnehmer, ein Thema, das bis weils an genau dem Tag nach 100 Jahren Speziell für die Gedenkjahregroße wurdenVergangenheit Tou- Das Flandernfestivalunter zur BrüsselVormacht unter in Griechenland.Flandern/flanders-fields/hier die neue Dimension des ausstellungen der Chronologie des Krie- heute traurige Aktualität behalten hat. im Museum zu projizieren. ren wie die „Friedensroute“der Erde zu wieder den histo- auf.dem Motto „1000 VoicesSein for Sohn Peace!“ hatschuf www.comingworldrememberme.beeine Welt- Mordens. Zuerst von den deut- macht und ging als Alexander schen Angreifern eingesetzt der Große in die Geschichte wurde das neue Kampfmittel Brot undein. Frieden Wo dieser seine letzte Ru- bald auch von den britischen he fand, ist bis heute ein Rätsel Verteidigern verwendet. Nach anfänglicher Euphorie bekommt auchgeblieben. Berlin die Kriegsfolgen zu spürenFür die Engländer ist Ypern An die Schrecken des Krieges erinnern die Ausstellungen in den Museen in Passendale und Ypern. Als sich im August 1914 das „Piccadilly Mehr als 2000Trauer Jahre um schlum- ihn – ließ vielesoetwas Frauen phy-wie ein Stalingrad. Jahre Café“ in „Kaffeehaus Vaterland“ umbe- merte auch Phillipsisch ungestört und psychisch in an ihrelang Grenzen hielten sto- sie sich in der völlig hunderttausenden hier verreck- wie damals in ein rotes Meer wirken die Friedhöfe der ver- nannte, traf der Besitzer öffentlichkeits- ßen. Zugleich waren die Daheimgebliebe- wirksam den Nerv einer in nationaler Er- seinem Totentempelnen zu unter umfangreichen der Sammeltätigkei-zerstörten Stadt verschanzt. Vor ten Soldaten und Munitionsre- verwandeln, sind Sinnbild für schiedenen Nationen als Mahn- Flanders Fields. regung befindlichen Gesellschaft. Ob aus Erde. Nur ein rechtten aufgerufen. unschein- Gesammeltden wurde Toren alles, tobte ein unerbitterli- ste gefunden. Blut und Vergänglichkeit und male für den Frieden. Überzeugung oder aus Angst der Inhaber barer Hügel hebtwas sich weiterverwertbar von der war:cherAltpapier, Stellungskrieg, dessen Spu- Dieser Eindruck hat die An- symbolisieren die Auseineinder- Der bekannste deutsche Sol- vor Ausgrenzung und Umsatzverlust: Un- Lumpen, Gummi, Metall. Auch langes Ort der gezählte Firmen und Geschäfte änderten Umgebung ab. FrauenhaarDas ist war wohl begehrt: Ausren ihm noch wurden heute in der Land- sichten der Menschen geprägt. setzung mit dem Thema Krieg. datenfriedhof in Langemark ist im Zuge des patriotischen Überschwangs auch der Grund,Treibriemen dass sein und Ge- Dichtungenschaft hergestellt, zu finden sind. Immer Mohnblumen (engl. Poppies), Der wird hier nicht als etwas letzte Ruhestätte für fast 25.000 Erinnerung. nach Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges ih- da wegen der britischen Seeblockade Ka- ren Namen: Der fremde Zungenschlag all- heimnis solangemelhaar unentdeckt nicht mehr erhältlichwieder war. werden Knochen der die die Felder Flanderns heute „heldenhaftes“ empfunden. So Gefallene. Größer sind die alli- Während des Ersten Weltkrieges widmeten viele täglicher Begriffe konnte schnell antina- blieb. Es war ein ZusammenGlücksfall mit für den immer höheren ierten Friedhöfe, nicht weil es Menschen ihr Leben der Hilfe anderer. Zu diesen zählte tional aufgefasst werden. die WissenschaftMenschenverlusten und der Fund an der Front und in sich um die Sieger handelt, son- auch die Französin Irène Curie, die älteste Tochter der Die über alle Maße der Vernunft hi- der Heimat führten diese härter werden- Nobelpreisträgerin Marie Curie. Genau wie ihre Mutter nausgehende Siegesgewissheit 1914 des Lebens für einenden Bedingungen Archäolo- zu einer tiefen Kriegs- dern, weil sie nicht wie die Deut- zeigte Irène ein starkes Interesse an Medizin und stand in scharfem Kontrast zur Stim- gen, als 1977 zummüdigkeit. Vorschein Wer sah, wie finanziell Besser- schen die meisten Toten in die Radiologie. Trotz ihrer jungen Jahre unterstützte sie mung zwei Jahre später, nachdem ein kam, was daruntergestellte steckt. ihren Bedarf über den Schwarz- ihre Mutter während des Krieges dabei, über 180 Großteil der Berliner Bevölkerung die Plakat für die Frauenhaarsamm- markt uneingeschränkt decken konnten, Heimat überführt haben. Krankenpfleger/innen zu schulen. Irène leitete sogar Auswirkungen des Krieges am eigenen lung (J. Wiertz, 1918).Im Foto: großen DHM Grabhügelder gelangte befin- bald zu der Überzeugung, Auf der „Flandern Fields Rou- die Röntgenstation eines Krankenhauses in Hoogstade Leib zu spüren bekommen hatte. Auf- den sich insgesamtdass fürvier die Gräber. gesamte Bevölkerung genü- te“ kann der Besucher die Erin- in den Feldern Flanderns. grund der unzureichenden Versorgungs- gend Nahrungsmittel und Kohle vorhan- Um mehr über die Geschichte von Irène Curie zu lage waren die Menschen immer zeitin- Steckrüben ersetzt werdenDas Phillips mussten, lagist dasden wärenprächtigste. – wenn sie nur gerechter ver- nerungsstätten der verschiede- erfahren, besuchen Sie flandersfields1418.com. tensiver damit beschäftigt, sich notwen- der tägliche DurchschnittsverbrauchEin weiteres ei- sollteilt das würden. Grab Dies von führte bei hunderttau- nen Nationen erkunden. Die Flanders Fields hat unzählige Dinge zu erzählen. dige Lebensmittel und Brennstoffe zu be- nes Erwachsenen meistAlexander unter 1000 Kalo-IV, Sohnsenden Alexanders Berlinern zu Frustration und so- Menschen Flanderns haben Kommen Sie und entdecken Sie sie selbst. schaffen. Der Arzt Alfred Grotejahn no- rien. Lebensmitteldiebstahl und andere zialem Hass, vor allem aber zu einem tierte am 17. März 1916 über die Folge Eigentumsdelikte nahmendes Großen während des sein.enormen Viele Glaubwürdigkeitsverlust Beiga- des ihren Frieden mit dem Krieg ge- der zunehmenden Unterernährung in Krieges sprunghaft zu.ben sind gut erhaltenStaates. und in macht. sein Tagebuch: „Die Berliner Bevölke- Auch die Prostitution erreichte ein bis Anfang 1918 kam es zu einem politi- rung bekommt von Woche zu Woche dahin unbekanntes Ausmaß.der Ausstellung, Um das ei- schen zu Massenstreik,sehen, die dem sich in Berlin mehr ein mongolisches Aussehen. Die Ba- gene Sattwerden oderden das ihrer historischen Kinder zu rund Komplex 400000 Menschenwie anschlossen. Tourismus Flandern, ckenknochen treten hervor, und die ent- ermöglichen, saheneine sich immerTotenhalle mehr umgibt.Ihre Hauptforderung: „Frieden und i Cäcilienstrasse 46, fettete Haut legt sich in Falten.“ Frauen gezwungen, ihren Körper zu ver- Brot!“ Viele andere aber verbanden mit Im Winter 1916/17, als aufgrund kaufen. Die Mehrfachbelastung von Le- den allgegenwärtigen Porträts von Kaiser 50667 Köln schlechter ErnteIm selbst Innern Kartoffeln warten als bensmittelbesorgung, unsagbare Kindererziehung Wilhelm II. und Paul vonAuf Hindenburg dem bisdeutschen Friedhof in Langemark sind tausende unbe- Mit Mohnblumen ehren die Tel. 0221-277590, www.discovergreece.com. Grundnahrungsmittelarchäologische zur Versorgung Schätze.und Arbeit, die Sorge um das Wohlerge- Herbst 1918 auch weiterhinkannte die feste Soldaten Er- begraben. 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In Frankrijk zetten we een samenwerking op met het blad ‘Le Point’. Het jaarlijkse congres van de RDA (Duitse federatie van autobusreizen) doet Ieper aan. In Canada sluiten we een overeenkomst met het Canadian War Museum voor hun grote tentoonstelling ‘Gas, Mud & Memory’. Voor Australië en Nieuw-Zeeland, waar we nog niet actief waren, stellen we een vertegenwoordigingskantoor aan om de pers en reisindustrie warm te maken voor ‘Flanders Fields’. Op het tweejaarlijkse ‘Flanders Brussels Travel Forum’ staat ‘100 Jaar Groote Oorlog’ centraal.

REACHING OUT

In France, we set up a collaboration with the newspaper ‘Le Point’. The annual conference of the RDA (German Federation of Bus and Coach Travel) is held in Ypres. In Canada, we conclude an agree- ment with the Canadian War Museum for their vast exhibition ‘Gas, Mud & Memory’. For Australia and New Zealand, where we do not yet have an ac- tive presence, we propose setting up a representa- / Mijnkrater Hollandse Schuur, Wijtschate, Heuvelland tive’s office in order to generate interest among the / Mine crater Dutch Barn, Wijtschate, Heuvelland press and the travel industry for ‘Flanders Fields’. The Great War Centenary is the central focus at the biannual ‘Flanders Brussels Travel Forum’.

34 / persreis met Bundeskunsthalle, Duitsland / Persreis uit UK en Ierland / press trip with Bundeskunsthalle, Germany / Press trip from UK and Ireland

/ RDA-conferentie Duitsland te gast in Ieper / Start van het Australië-team van Toerisme Vlaanderen / RDA conference Germany hosted by Ypres / Kick-off for the VISITFLANDERS Australia team / Museum aan de IJzer, Diksmuide / Museum at the Yser, Diksmuide

/ Vrij Vaderland, Veurne / Free Fatherland, Veurne

/ Museum aan de IJzer, Diksmuide / Museum at the Yser, Diksmuide GROTE EN KLEINE WERKEN / Käthe Kollwitz museum, Koekelare Het Museum aan de IJzer gaat open voor het publiek. Er worden trouwens overal in Vlaanderen lintjes doorgeknipt, want tal van grotere en kleinere investeringsprojecten zijn tot een goed einde gebracht.

GREATER AND SMALLER PROJECTS

The Museum at the Yser (Yser Tower) opens its doors to the public. In fact, ribbons are cut all over Flanders as numerous larger and smaller invest- / Lange Max museum, Koekelare / Vrij Vaderland, Veurne / Long Max museum, Koekelare / Free Fatherland, Veurne ment projects are successfully completed.

37 4 AUGUSTUS

Precies 100 jaar na het uitbreken van de Eerste We- reldoorlog verspreidt Toerisme Vlaanderen 115.000 exemplaren van een unieke herdenkingskrant ‘The Flanders Fields Post’, in Manchester, Dublin, Toron- to, Glasgow, Londen, Halifax en Brussel. Ook in de nieuwsbulletins van die dag duikt de actie op.

4 AUGUST

Exactly 100 years after the First World War broke out, VISITFLANDERS distributes 115,000 copies of a unique commemorative newspaper ‘The Flanders Fields Post’, in Manchester, Dublin, Toronto, Glasgow, London, Halifax and Brussels. The activities are also covered by the news bulletins of the day.

38 / In Manchester, UK / In Dublin, Ierland / In Dublin, Ireland

/ In Manchester, UK / In Halifax, Canada

39 WELKOM…

Op Brussels Airport is de herdenking nadrukkelijk aanwezig met klaprozen en beelden uit WO I. Ook de NMBS-stations in de Westhoek krijgen een the- matisch accent. Voor wie meer wil weten zal er elk jaar van de herdenking een overzichtelijke mini-gids gemaakt worden, in vier talen.

WELCOME…

At Brussels Airport, the commemoration is clearly visible with poppies and images from WW1. The SNCB train stations in the Westhoek are also themed accordingly. For anyone wishing to find out more, a comprehensive mini-guide – available in four lan- guages – will also be created for each year of the commemoration.

40 41 LICHTFRONT LIGHTFRONT

Oktober. 8400 fakkeldragers verlichten de 84 kilome- It is October. 8400 torch-bearers light up the 84 ki- ter lange frontlijn van Ploegsteert tot Nieuwpoort: lometre front-line from Ploegsteert to Nieuwpoort: een onvergetelijk moment. Toerisme Vlaanderen an unforgettable moment. VISITFLANDERS provides draagt een financieel steentje bij tot de organisatie financial support for the organisation of this Light- / LichtFront op Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke / LightFront at Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke van dit LichtFront, en haalt 30 buitenlandse jour- Front and brings around 30 foreign journalists and nalisten en bloggers naar de Westhoek. Het nieuwe bloggers to Westhoek. The new ‘WestFront’ visitor bezoekerscentrum ‘WestFront’ in Nieuwpoort is on- centre in Nieuwpoort is now open. The ‘Coming dertussen open. Ook de workshops ‘Coming World x World x Remember Me’ workshops also begin. The Remember Me’ gaan van start. De ambitie is om één aim is to create one sculpture for each of the beeldje te maken voor elk van de 600.000 mensen 600,000 people who lost their lives in Belgium die in België het leven lieten door WO I. during WW1. 42 / LichtFront nabij Westfront, Nieuwpoort / LightFront at Westfront, Nieuwpoort

/ LichtFront / LightFront / CWxRM / CWxRM 43 VLAANDEREN HERDENKT

Elke stad, elk dorp heeft een verhaal over de ge- beurtenissen in 1914. Ze vertellen daarover in speciale herdenkingsmomenten, tentoonstellingen, muziek en andere evenementen. Vele van deze onvergetelijke programma’s worden met de financiële steun van Toerisme Vlaanderen gerealiseerd.

FLANDERS REMEMBERS

Every city and every village has a tale to tell about the events of 1914. They recount their stories during special commemorative moments, exhibitions, mu- sical performances and other events. Many of these unforgettable programmes are made possible thanks / Pontonbrug, Antwerpen / Pontoon bridge, Antwerp to the financial support of VISITFLANDERS.

44 / Legermuseum, Brussel / Military museum, Brussels / Ravage, Leuven

/ Dendermonde

/ Shooting Range, FoMu, Antwerpen / Shooting Range, FoMu, Antwerp

/ 1.000 Voices for Peace / Aarschot

45 EEN BOODSCHAP VAN VREDE A MESSAGE OF PEACE

De Kerstbestanden in 1914 deden de wapens even zwij- The Christmas truce silenced the guns in 1914. VISIT- gen. Toerisme Vlaanderen vraagt aan bekende straat- FLANDERS asks well-known street artists from the artiesten uit het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Duitsland om United Kingdom and Germany to collaborate on a samen een werk te maken met de Kerstbestanden als thematic work based on the Christmas truce. A graf- thema. Het wordt een graffiti schildering in hartje fiti painting is created in the heart of London and Londen, en een kunstwerk op canvas in Berlijn. an artwork painted on canvas in Berlin.

De facebookpagina Flandersfields1418 blijkt meer The Flandersfields1418 Facebook page is proving to be dan levensvatbaar. We tellen 51.646 fans per 31 de- more than viable. We have 51,646 fans as of 31 Decem- cember 2014. En vooral erg veel interactie. ber 2014. And a great deal of interaction takes place. 46 47 2015

DE HERDENKING GAAT VERDER REMEMBRANCE CONTINUES

48 49 2015

DE HERDENKING GAAT VERDER REMEMBRANCE CONTINUES

48 49 2015 De belangstelling voor ‘De Groote Oorlog’ blijft ook na 2014 sterk. Australië en Nieuw-Zeeland, de ANZACs, sluiten aan bij de herdenking zoals ze in 1915 ook aan- sloten bij het krijgsgewoel. Nieuwe, vaak kleinschalige investeringen in de frontstreek zorgen dat bezoekers nog meer inzichten en verhalen aangereikt krijgen. Ondertussen, ongestoord, treden de klaroenblazers onder de Menenpoort elke avond aan voor hun Last Post Ceremonie… op 9 juli 2015 voor de 30.000ste keer, en met het voornemen dat het nooit de laatste ‘Last Post’ zal zijn.

The interest in The Great War remains strong after 2014. Australia and New Zealand – the ANZACs – join in with the commemoration just as they joined the turmoil of battle in 1915. New, often small-scale in- vestments in the Western Front area provide visitors with even more insights and stories. In the meantime, without any interruptions, the Last Post rings out under the Menin Gate every evening, and for the 30,000th time on 9 July 2015, with the intention that it will never truly be the last Last Post.

50 51 51 100 JAAR ANZAC DAY

‘Merci Australia’ – de slogan is van Atout France maar Toerisme Vlaanderen sluit er zich graag bij aan. Naar aanleiding van de 100ste ANZAC Day werkt Toerisme Vlaanderen mee aan de gelijknamige brochure van de Franse NTO. Ze zit als bijlage bij twee Australische kranten, samen goed voor 37.000 exemplaren. Via het Qantas netwerk komen daar nog eens 10 miljoen digitale exemplaren bij.

100 YEARS ANZAC DAY

‘Merci Australia’ – the slogan by Atout France is also TER ERE VAN DOKTER JOHN IN HONOUR OF DR. JOHN picked up by VISITFLANDERS. On the occasion of the 100th ANZAC Day, VISITFLANDERS collaborates Dat de frontregio gekend staat als ‘Flanders Fields’, The fact that the front is known as Flanders Fields with the French NTO to make a brochure of the dat de klaproos het symbool is voor de Eerste We- and the poppy is the symbol of the First World War same name. The brochure is handed out as a supple- reldoorlog: we hebben het te danken aan de Cana- is down to the Canadian doctor John McCrae. In May ment with two Australian newspapers, accounting / ANZAC Day Ceremonie op Polygon Wood dese dokter John McCrae. In mei 1915 schreef hij een 1915, he wrote a harrowing poem to mark the death for 37,000 copies in total. The Qantas network dis- / ANZAC Day Ceremony at Polygon Wood schrijnend gedicht bij de dood van een vriend. De of a friend. The horror of war continued on unabat- tributes another 10 million digital copies. oorlogsgruwel duurde onveranderd verder – met gas ed, with gas as a horrific new weapon. / ANZAC Day Ceremonie op Polygon Wood / ANZAC Day Ceremony at Polygon Wood als52 een verschrikkelijk nieuw wapen. 53 100 JAAR ANZAC DAY

100 YEARS ANZAC DAY

‘Merci Australia’ – the slogan by Atout France is also picked up by VISITFLANDERS. On the occasion of the 100th ANZAC Day, VISITFLANDERS collaborates with the French NTO to make a brochure of the same name. The brochure is handed out as a supple- ment with two Australian newspapers, accounting / ANZAC Day Ceremonie op Polygon Wood for 37,000 copies in total. The Qantas network dis- / ANZAC Day Ceremony at Polygon Wood tributes another 10 million digital copies. / ANZAC Day Ceremonie op Polygon Wood / ANZAC Day Ceremony at Polygon Wood 53 VER WEG THUISKOMEN

In december bestaat Talbot House in Poperinge 100 jaar. Hier konden de Britse frontsoldaten even verpo- zen en ‘thuiskomen’. Ook vandaag blijft een bezoek aan Talbot House een verademing. De campagne brengt dit thuisgevoel over: voorbijgangers in Londen en Manchester krijgen, net als de soldaten 100 jaar terug, thee aangeboden in unieke Talbot House bekers.

Tijdens een workshop in Fort Napoleon, Oostende, krijgt een groep van 40 reisorganisatoren uit UK en Ierland een stevige briefing over onder meer de komende herdenkingsjaren.

A HOME FROM HOME

In December, Talbot House in Poperinge celebrates its 100th birthday. This location offered British soldiers on the front line an opportunity to rest and recuperate and feel ‘at home’. Even today, a visit to Talbot House is a chance to ‘get your breath back’. The campaign exudes this homely feeling; passers-by in London and Manchester are offered a cup of tea in unique Talbot House cups , just like the soldiers 100 years ago..

During a workshop in Fort Napoleon, Ostend, a group of 40 travel organisers from the UK and Ire- land are provided with a comprehensive briefing about topics, including the forthcoming commemoration years. 54 55 56 DE BOODSCHAP VERSPREIDEN

Het internationale publiek blijven inspireren en helpen om de weg naar Flanders Fields te vinden: daarom zetten we een stevig gedocumenteerde website op, begeven we ons op Twitter, starten we nieuwsbrieven, werken we aan een educatieve brochure voor Britse scholen, brengen we een brochure uit voor mensen met een visuele beperking. Op Facebook blijft Flan- ders Fields gestaag groeien: we eindigen het jaar met 74.913 fans en veel interactie.

SPREADING THE WORD

Our aim is to continue to inspire and help our international audience find their way to Flanders Fields. That is why we are creating a well-documented website, starting to use Twitter, writing newsletters, working on an educational brochure for British schools and publishing a brochure for people with a visual impairment. Flanders Fields is steadily gaining popularity on Facebook; we end the year with 74,913 fans and a great deal of interaction.

57 2016

ONDER VUUR LIVING UNDER FIRE

58 59 2016

ONDER VUUR LIVING UNDER FIRE

58 59 2016 / Frans Monument, Kemmel Het zou een rustig jaar worden, want Frankrijk staat / French Monument, Kemmel hoog op de herdenkingsagenda met 100 jaar ‘Verdun’ en ‘de Somme’. Dan slaat terreur toe, eerst in Parijs en op 22 maart ook in Brussel. Even liggen we zelf onder vuur. Even liggen we zelf onder vuur en hapert het vertrouwen van de internationale bezoekers in / Hill 60, Zillebeke de veiligheid van onze bestemming. Al met al gaat de herdenking in Vlaanderen echter verder. Vreemd genoeg is het dagelijks leven tijdens WO I het thema van vele initiatieven dit jaar.

It should be a quiet year because France is high on the commemorative agenda with 100 years since Verdun and the Somme. But then the terror attacks begin, first in Paris and then also in Brussels on 22 March. We ourselves are now under fire. And potential international visitors begin to doubt the security of our destination. The commemoration in Flanders, however, moves forward. Strangely / Duitse begraafplaats Langemark / Duitse begraafplaats Vladslo, Diksmuide enough, daily life during WW1 is the theme of / German military cemetery Langemark / Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917, Zonnebeke / German military cemetery Vladslo, Diksmuide many of the initiatives this year.

60 61 / Pool of Peace, Heuvelland 2016 / Frans Monument, Kemmel Het zou een rustig jaar worden, want Frankrijk staat / French Monument, Kemmel hoog op de herdenkingsagenda met 100 jaar ‘Verdun’ en ‘de Somme’. Dan slaat terreur toe, eerst in Parijs en op 22 maart ook in Brussel. Even liggen we zelf onder vuur. Even liggen we zelf onder vuur en hapert het vertrouwen van de internationale bezoekers in / Hill 60, Zillebeke de veiligheid van onze bestemming. Al met al gaat de herdenking in Vlaanderen echter verder. Vreemd genoeg is het dagelijks leven tijdens WO I het thema van vele initiatieven dit jaar.

61 / Pool of Peace, Heuvelland 100 JAAR WIPERS TIMES 100 YEARS WIPERS TIMES

Met de medewerking van Ian Hislop, boegbeeld van de With the cooperation of Ian Hislop, a figurehead Britse satire, maken we een reeks video’s over het sa- of British satire, we create a series of videos about tirische soldatenkrantje bij uitstek: The Wipers Times, the satirical soldiers’ newspaper: The Wipers Times, in 2016 honderd jaar oud. Nick Roberts, kleinzoon van which celebrates its 100th birthday in 2016. Nick de oorspronkelijke redactiechef, ontpopt zich als een Roberts, grandson of the original editor, emerges as ware ambassadeur voor de herdenking in de West- a genuine ambassador for the commemoration in hoek. De vijf filmpjes worden met een persconferentie the Westhoek. The five films are launched with a gelanceerd, en via sociale media verspreid. We genere- press conference and are distributed via social me- ren meer dan 860.000 video views, waarvan meer dan dia. We generate more than 860,000 video views, 10% de video’s volledig bekijkt. of which more than 10% watches the entire video. SHOT AT DAWN SHOT AT DAWN

Meer dan eens werden soldaten die weigerden te vech- More than once, soldiers who refused to fight were ten veroordeeld tot de dood met de kogel. Poperinge sentenced to death by firing squad. Poperinge ded- wijdt een kleine maar harde tentoonstelling aan deze icates a small but hard-hitting exhibition to these executies, en plaatst zo deze doden bij de slachtoffers executions and thus adds these deaths to those die we herdenken. victims we are remembering.

62 63 63 STERKE VROUWEN

WOI was geen exclusieve mannenzaak. Dat maakt de tentoonstellingen-reeks ‘De ZIJ-kant van de oorlog’ duidelijk. Verpleegsters Elsie en Mairi; wetenschapster Marie Curie, kunstenares Käthe Kollwitz maar ook volkse vrouwen zoals Madame Tack komen aan bod. Vrouwen die vandaag vechten voor vrede treden op als ‘meters’ van het project. DE STEM VAN KINDEREN

Kun je oorlog uitleggen aan kinderen? Misschien door kinderen aan het woord te laten die het zelf hebben meegemaakt, honderd jaar geleden... ‘Oorlog in Korte Broek’ brengt dergelijke verhalen samen. We verspreiden ze ook via sociale media.

/ Madame64 Tack / Lieve Blancquaert & Jennie Vanlerberghe

STRONG WOMEN

WW1 was not exclusively for men. This is made very clear by a series of exhibitions called ‘Her Side Of The War’ (De ZIJ-kant van de oorlog). Nurses Elsie and Mairi, scientist Marie Curie, artist Käthe Kollwitz and also the ‘Mother of the Trenches’, Madame Tack, are part of this series. The women who fight for peace today function as ‘mentors’ of this project. THE VOICE OF CHILDREN

Can you explain war to children? Perhaps by let- ting the children who experienced it 100 years ago have their say... ‘War in Short Pants’ (Oorlog in Korte Broek) brings together these types of stories, which we also disseminate via social media.

65 EEN AANLOOP NAAR 2017 RUN-UP TO 2017

Veel communicatie-initiatieven nemen al een aanloop Many communication initiatives are already un- naar 2017, het jaar dat ‘Passchendaele’ wordt her- derway in the run-up to 2017, the year in which dacht. Het ‘Flanders Brussels Travel Forum’ toont het we commemorate ‘Passchendaele’. The ‘Flanders beste van Vlaanderen – waaronder ‘Flanders Fields’ Brussels Travel Forum’ shows off the best of Flan- - aan 415 inkopers uit 30 landen. We verspreiden een ders, including Flanders Fields, to 415 buyers from programmaboekje op de belangrijkste Franse herden- 30 countries. We distribute a programme leaflet at kingssites en op distributiepunten van P&O ferries. the most important French commemorative sites Vanuit de UK verzamelen we 40 verkopers van edu- and at distribution points on P&O ferries. From / Vlucht Brussel - Toronto catieve reizen voor een ‘hostel experience’ en vanuit the UK, we gather together 40 people involved in / Flight Brussels - Toronto Ierland zakt ook GTI met pers en trade af naar Flan- selling educational trips for a hostel experience ders Fields. De rechtstreekse vlucht Brussel-Toronto is and we also invite GTI with Irish press and trade. een goede gelegenheid om ook daar ‘Passchendaele’ The direct flight from Brussels to Toronto is also in de verf te zetten. Brendan Nelson, directeur van het a great opportunity to bring Passchendaele to Australian War Memorial, doet een oproep aan zijn everyone’s attention. Brendan Nelson, director of landgenoten om ‘Flanders Fields’ te bezoeken. Ook de the Australian War Memorial, puts out a call to tentoonstelling ‘The Belgians have not forgotten’ die his fellow countrymen to visit Flanders Fields. We rondreist in Australië en Nieuw-Zeeland steunen we. also support the exhibition ‘The Belgians have not Einde 2016 staat het aantal volgers van onze Face- forgotten’, which tours Australia and New Zealand. book-pagina op 108.906. At the end of 2016, the number of followers on our Facebook page stands at 108,906. / Brendan Nelson, directeur Australian War Memorial / Brendan Nelson, director Australian War Memorial / Hostelexperience 66 67 / Brendan Nelson, directeur Australian War Memorial / Brendan Nelson, director Australian War Memorial

/ Brendan Nelson, directeur Australian War Memorial / Brendan Nelson, director Australian War Memorial

67 2017

PASSCHENDAELE PASSCHENDAELE

68 69 2017

PASSCHENDAELE PASSCHENDAELE

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De Derde Slag bij Ieper, beter bekend als de Slag bij Passchendaele, staat geboekstaafd als een hel: gru- welijk leed, ontelbare slachtoffers, quasi geen terrein- winst. Vele landen plannen een officiële ceremonie ter herdenking. Het verhaal van Passchendaele wordt echter ook verteld door het landschap van ‘Flanders Fields’, de begraafplaatsen, de namen onder de Me- nenpoort, het museum in Zonnebeke. Met gerichte campagnes en culturele projecten zoals het Krater- Front, het tentoonstellingencircuit ‘1917, Totale oorlog in Vlaanderen’ of het ingetogen ‘Silent‘Silent CityCity meetsmeets Living City’ dragen we de herinnering verder uit. / Silent City meets Living City, Zonnebeke

The Third Battle of Ypres, better known as the Battle of Passchendaele, is known to have been hell-on-earth, with horrific suffering, innumer- able victims and very little territory won. Many countries are planning an official commemorative ceremony. The story of Passchendaele, however, is also told through the landscape of Flanders Fields, the cemeteries, the names listed under the Menin Gate and the museum at Zonnebeke. With targeted campaigns and cultural projects – including Krater- Front, the exhibition circuit ‘1917, Total War in Flan- ders’, and the fragile ‘Silent City meets Living City’ – we gradually expand the commemoration.

70 / Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke 2017

De Derde Slag bij Ieper, beter bekend als de Slag bij Passchendaele, staat geboekstaafd als een hel: gru- welijk leed, ontelbare slachtoffers, quasi geen terrein- winst. Vele landen plannen een officiële ceremonie ter herdenking. Het verhaal van Passchendaele wordt echter ook verteld door het landschap van ‘Flanders Fields’, de begraafplaatsen, de namen onder de Me- nenpoort, het museum in Zonnebeke. Met gerichte campagnes en culturele projecten zoals het Krater- Front, het tentoonstellingencircuit ‘1917, Totale oorlog in Vlaanderen’ of het ingetogen ‘Silent City meets Living City’ dragen we de herinnering verder uit. / Silent City meets Living City, Zonnebeke

70 71 72 / Totale Oorlog, In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper / Total War, In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres GETUIGENISSEN

‘1917, Totale Oorlog in Vlaanderen’ bestaat uit 11 grotere en kleinere tentoonstellingen die elk een aspect van ‘Passchendaele’ uitdiepen, en die verspreid zijn over de regio. Verhalen van soldaten die de slag hebben meegemaakt vormen de rode draad voor routes en in de communicatie. De digitale ‘early bookers’ campagne van Toerisme Vlaanderen zet deze verhalen ook in en loopt in de periode dat het publiek in de verschillende landen vakantieplannen maakt. We bereiken met de filmpjes maar liefst 4,4 miljoen mensen, halen ruim 720.000 videoviews op Facebook, 53.600 reacties en 56.000 clicks.

TESTIMONIALS

‘1917, Total War in Flanders’ comprises 11 larger and smaller exhibitions that each examine an aspect of Passchendaele and which are spread out across the region. Stories by soldiers who took part in the battle form the underlying basis of the routes and the communication. These stories are used by VIS- ITFLANDERS in its digital ‘early bookers’ campaign which runs throughout the period when the audience in the various countries are making holiday plans. The films reach a total of 4,4 million people, get more than 720,000 video views on Facebook, 53,600 reactions and 56 000 clicks.

73 MODDERSOLDAAT MUD SOLDIER

Op 31 juli 2017 vindt de officiële Britse herdenking plaats van de Slag bij Passchen- On 31 July 2017, the official British commemoration of the Battle of Passchen- daele. Een week voordien verschijnt op Trafalgar Square, hartje Londen de ‘Mud daele takes place. One week beforehand, in the heart of London, the Mud Soldier Soldier’. Deze sculptuur van een Britse soldaat vergaat tot modder onder gestaag appears in Trafalgar Square. This sculpture of a British soldier is made of mud; it druppelend water en symboliseert zo de gruwel van Passchendaele. Voorbijgangers disintegrates under dripping water and symbolises the horror of Passchendaele. en Britse media sluiten de Mud Soldier in hun hart, op sociale media reageren men- Passers-by and the British media take the Mud Soldier to their hearts and those sen ontroerd, geboeid en erg positief. De actie gaat viraal en haalt maar liefst 3,9 who respond on social media are moved, captivated and extremely positive. The miljoen videoviews op Facebook en ruim 48.000 link clicks en krijgt zelfs een eigen campaign goes viral and reaches no less than 3,9 million video views on Face- pagina op Wikipedia. Deze sterke samenwerking tussen reclamebureau, Toerisme book and more than 48,000 link clicks. The statue even gets its own Wikipedia Vlaanderen Brussel en Londen, de Londense Westminster Council en DCMS (Depart- page. This collaboration between the campaign agency, VISITFLANDERS Brussels ment of Culture, Media and Sports van de UK) zal een jaar later een regen van mar- and London, London’s Westminster Council and the DCMS (Department of Cul- ketingprijzen winnen, waaronder zes ‘Creative Club of Belgium Awards’ en 4 Effies. ture, Media and Sports in the UK) is showered with a range of marketing awards 74 a year later, including six ‘Creative Club of Belgium Awards’ and 4 Effies. 75 STREET ART

Op 6 september verschijnt in Hosier Lane in Melbourne, Australië, een opvallend graffiti kunstwerk. In opdracht van Toerisme Vlaanderen schilderde street artist Adrian Doyle en zijn team zijn visie op ‘Passchendaele’: de gruwel van het slagveld, en ook de wreedheid voor wie thuis achterbleef en zelfs geen graf kon bezoeken. De Australische media besteden ruim aandacht aan het initiatief, met een bereik van zo’n 13 miljoen. De actie ontvangt in 2018 een ‘Mumbrella Award for Bravery’.

‘Coming World x Remember Me’ gaat op reis naar Halifax en Toronto in Canada. Gelijktijdig verspreidt Toerisme Vlaanderen op sociale media een filmpje waarin de Canadese acteur R.H. Thomson zijn medewerking verleent.

STREET ART

On 6 September, an eye-catching graffiti artwork appears in Hosier Lane in Melbourne. On behalf of VISITFLANDERS, street artist Adrian Doyle and his team paints his vision of Passchendaele; the horror of the battlefield and also the brutality for those left at home who couldn’t even visit a grave. The Australian media give the initiative broad coverage, reaching 13 million people. The event receives a ‘Mumbrella Award for Bravery’ in 2018.

‘Coming World x Remember Me’ goes on tour to Halifax and Toronto in Canada. Simultaneously, VISITFLANDERS distributes a film on social media to which the Canadian actor R.H. Thomson con- tributes. 76 77 / Chinese arbeiders in Poperinge / Chinese labourers in Poperinge

NEW STORIES

/ Guynemer Paviljoen, Langemark-Poelkapelle From 2017 onwards, new locations offer further insights into the complexity of the Great War. In Kemmel, a spacious visitor centre that focuses on / Hippo.War, Waregem NIEUWE VERHALEN themes such as the Battle of Messines opens its doors. A monument to those Chinese labourers Nieuwe plekken bieden vanaf 2017 nog meer inzicht in de complexi- who were recruited for thankless and dangerous teit van de Groote Oorlog. In Kemmel opent het ruime bezoekerscen- tasks during and after the war appears in Po- trum met o.m. aandacht voor de Mijnenslag. In Poperinge verschijnt peringe. Poperinge also devotes a highly-rated een monument voor de Chinese arbeiders die ingeschakeld werden exhibition to this subject. voor ondankbare en gevaarlijke klussen tijdens en na de oorlog. Po- peringe wijdt er ook een gewaardeerde tentoonstelling aan. The VRT series ‘Onder Vlaamse Velden’ covers the archaeology of the WW1 battlefi elds in the West- De VRT-reeks ‘Onder Vlaamse Velden’ gaat over de archeologie van de hoek. VISITFLANDERS creates a much shorter com- WO I slagvelden in de Westhoek. Toerisme Vlaanderen maakt er een pilation on social media for foreign audiences. We sterk verkorte compilatie van voor het buitenlands publiek op sociale reach more than 3,1 million organic video views on media. We behalen meer dan 3,1 miljoen organische video views op Facebook. Facebook. With another digital promotion, we focus on all of Met een andere digitale actie richten we ons op alle mensen die op the people on Facebook who show an interest in Facebook interesse vertonen voor de Eerste Wereldoorlog en aan- the First World War and related themes. We reached

verwante thema’s. We behaalden 795.000 video views en 6650 clicks. 795,000 video views and 6650 clicks. Our own Face- / Under Flanders Fields Onze eigen facebookpagina sluit het jaar af met 148.370 fans. book page ends the year with 148,370 fans.

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Need to know European Travel Expos held in mortallywoundedinaction,and stonefigures:adejectedfatheryear powerfulimprintonanyonewhoof the war and MICHAELVISONTAYthe country’s Pictured Battle of Polygon all smiles at the Passchendaele liberation by Belgian and American The Australian The museum has a reconstruction of a Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne Commemoration dugout, an underground field camp. As we troops. The role of Belgium’s King Ceremony will be held DĞůďŽƵƌŶĞƐŚŽǁĨƌŽŵůĞŌ walk through it, the claustrophobia is on September 26 at a overwhelming. We do not, however, have to Albert I in the offensive will also be dawn service in wrapped up last weekend. experience the stench the soldiers endured, Polygon Wood. Register are Marie McEnally, Tourism the lice that swarmed their mattresses, or the at ticketek.com.au pilgrims’ ground shaking with the constant shelling explained. passc hendaele.be Silent City Meets nearby. Living City A service Each expo featured a range of Remarkably, there is a real dugout, intact, ■ will be held at Tyne Cot Healing Exhibition – Poperinge Cemetery in /ƌĞůĂŶĚ͖ŝƌŐŝƚtĞŝŶŐĂƌƚŶĞƌ͕ just a few kilometres away. A few years ago an Passchendaele at 7pm archaeological team was excavating beneath a on October 14 to mark European Tourist Bureaux, along church in nearby Zonnebeke, looking for a the 100th anniversary honour crypt, and instead found a huge, preserved of the battle. ^ǁŝƚǌĞƌůĂŶĚdŽƵƌŝƐŵ͖^ŽŶŝĂ,Žůƚ͕ Australian dugout that could hold 2000 Gravestones and soldiers. The complex, built under the church names will be ǁŝƚŚĂƐĞůĞĐƟŽŶŽĨŝŶĚĞƉĞŶĚĞŶƚ to afford protection from the front, is nearly illuminated in a sound 30 metres long and includes side corridors, and light show, with sŝƐŝƚ&ůĂŶĚĞƌƐ͖dƌĂƵƚĞdƵĐŬĨĞůĚ͕ music and personal five other rooms and two stairways. The stories. doesn’t strike the visitor as old, with the restoration is almost complete; the site will be 1917: Total War In to fallen TRAVEL FLANDERS FIELDS There is overwhelming ĚĞƐƟŶĂƟŽŶƐƉĞĐŝĂůŝƐƚƐƉƌŽŵŽƟŶŐ conspicuous exception of the church tower officially opened on July 31 by Prince WilliamReproduced by Gorkana under licence from the NLA (newspapers),Flanders Six new CLA (magazines), FT (Financial Times/ft.com) or other copyright owner. No further 'ĞƌŵĂŶEĂƟŽŶĂůdŽƵƌŝƐŵKĸĐĞ͖ and massive Cloth Hall (one of the largest non- reason to remember and his wife, Kate Middleton. exhibitions about the religious buildings in medieval Europe). For the royals, and all visitors, the Flanderscopying (including printing of digital cuttings), digital reproduction/forwardingyear 1917 in Flanders of the cutting is permitted except under licence from the copyright travel to Europe in 2018. Nevertheless, the knowledge of what the war every day in Fields are a ‘‘plein air’’ museum, complete Fields, running from happened runs very deep here; it is imprinted with balloon rides and boat trips down keyowner. All FT content is copyright The Financial Times Ltd.June 3 (the anniversary ŚƌŝƐƟŶĂĂƌŶŚŽĨĞƌ͕ƵƐƚƌŝĂŶ in the DNA. Although the Second World War Ypres. waterways of the war, with bunkers dotted of Battle of Messines) Article Page 1 of 1 The sound of distant gunfire also touched the area, its impact was minor along the way. For the locals, however, the to December 31. For The events were open to the more information on all compared with the earlier conflict. Historians fields remain an ever present source410712175 of danger. - CHRDIC - DC267-2 - 132948511 these events see EĂƟŽŶĂůdŽƵƌŝƐƚKĸĐĞ͖ŵĂŶƵĂůĞ have created a vivid, sprawling memorial to trees circling the rim. Nothing else has grown In April a farmer was ploughing his land on a passchendaele2017.org those years: not just museums and cemeteries there in 100 years. It is humbling to think how tractor when he cut the top off a buried shell. public and agents, and were These vivid memorials mark the mindless slaughter of the Great War, writes Michael Visontay. but battlefields and physical remnants of how many shells must have been dropped on this Fortunately, the vehicle absorbed most of the Wood of Peace – Tree the land and locals were changed piece of ground to cause such devastation. impact and he survived. Planting Day A tree will be planted for each ƩĂŶĂƐŝĂ͕/ƚĂůŝĂŶ^ƚĂƚĞdŽƵƌŝƐƚ permanently. Next we are off to the nearby Museum of It’s estimated that 500,000 shells are still fallen soldier with a declared a great success for all Importantly, they are focused on the impact Passchendaele, which commemorates the found every year in these fields. When locals known grave at the two on ordinary people, whether they were battle of the same name (aka The Third Battle find them in industrial areas, they are told to British cemeteries at Board and Kristen Angus from soldiers or civilians. For example, just outside of Ypres), which the Allies, encouraged by the put them by the side of the road. Last year, a Polygon Wood. There the town is Hill 60 (named because it was success of their mines, launched in July 1917. group of Turkish workers, unfamiliar with the will be two planting ‘‘Would you like to hear us sing Waltzing wreaths by young and old soldiers and a undermines the gravity we are supposed to Main: Bayernwald 60 metres above sea level), which had such The campaign can best be described as a shells, accidentally moved or touched one in a days, September 26 ŝŶǀŽůǀĞĚ͕ǁŝƚŚƉŽƐŝƟǀĞĨĞĞĚďĂĐŬ Matilda?’’ It’s an invitation seldom heard at sprinkling of schoolchildren. feel. Wijtschate trenches. strategic importance as a lookout that it catastrophic victory: over 100 days, more than pile alongside a road. It blew up, killing several and October 12. VisitBritain. any cemetery, much less a military cemetery This year is the 100th anniversary of several Perhaps the problem lies in me. There is Clockwise from top changed hands seven times during the war, 500,000 men on all sides were killed for a gain of them. Registration required on the other side of the world. We look iconic battles in Flanders Fields and there are overwhelming reason to remember the war left: Anzac Day most famously during the Battle of Messines, by the Allies of only eight kilometres of The Great War may be over but the legacy of passchendaele2017.org Menin Gate Last Post Ceremony at L&L sideways at each other, unsure how to many ceremonies planned throughout the every day in Ypres. This prosperous trading in June 1917. ground. This was the epicentre of the mindless Flanders lives on in every sense. At 8pm each day respond to this offer from a middle-aged year to commemorate the landmark events, town was completely destroyed by the Zonnebeke; In The Allies could not dislodge the Germans slaughter in mud we now associate with the ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● beneath the Menin couple from Brisbane, Peter and Susan most notably the Battle of Passchendaele (in Germans over three battles during the Great Flanders Fields and so, for more than six months, the 1st Great War. The writer travelled as a guest of Visit Flanders. Gate, volunteer buglers Sercomb. In truth, it is impossible to refuse, September). War. At some stages the enemy rained down Museum, Ypres; and Australian Tunnelling Company famously from the Last Post because our group has already said ‘‘no The ceremony at Menin Gate night was not 20 shells a minute on its medieval grandeur, the Museum of laid a series of 25 mines underneath the hill to Association raise their thanks’’ a few hours earlier at another one of them; it is held at the same time every wiping out a thousand years of history. Such Passchendaele. Far blast the enemy off the face of the earth. Our instruments to sound memorial site. night of the year. Although it is hugely popular was the devastation that Winston Churchill right: Australian excellent guide, Martial, tells us that the the Last Post. Now we stand, teeth gritted, among and the solemnity of young children touching, wanted Ypres to stay in ruins as a living servicemen and Australian miners were known as claykickers FLANDERS GHENT Flanders Fields Museum This museum thousands of white headstones at Tyne Cot there is just a hint of performance to the memorial to the carnage of war. women are still because they would lie at 45 degrees on boards in Ypres presents the Cemetery near Ypres in Belgium, ground zero occasion. I have been brought up to remember The town elders overruled him and rebuilt remembered in and kick out the clay with long picks attached story of World War I in of the fields of Flanders from World War I. I the fallen once a year, not every day, and the the centre and surrounding villages. So, unlike Flanders. to their feet, like pogo sticks. the region. See am prepared for the worst, an anthem fact that they hold it every night somehow many ancient cities in this part of the world, it For their expertise and bravery, these Medieval Flemish charm inflandersfields.be borrowed from State of Origin. tunnellers, who were often miners in civilian Memorial Museum of Instead, Susan unpacks a ukulele she has life, were paid at least twice as much as regular Passchendaele Brings been carrying on her back – yes, a ukulele – soldiers (and by some accounts up to six times Ghent is famous for its history but has much more to offer. the horror of this while Peter holds out an iPad that displays the as much). At precisely 3.10am on June 7, they landmark battle to life. lyrics (he plays the double bass, but it was too detonated the mines. Nineteen of them went Highlights include a reconstruction of a big to bring). off, killing thousands of German soldiers in an dugout, and an Susan strums a gentle rendition of And the inferno so large it was officially recorded as an The Flemish town of Ghent was described by as ‘‘the most influential painting ever’’ and ‘‘the extensive exhibit on gas band played Waltzing Matilda, the iconic anti- earthquake. Martial tells us that there were no Lonely Planet as Europe’s best-kept secret but, world’s most coveted masterpiece’’. It has been and chemical weapons. war song written by Eric Bogle in 1971, when injuries from the blast. The soldiers knew after a short stay, its many charms are obvious. the centre of 13 crimes and was No. 1 on Hitler’s See passchendaele.be the Vietnam War was at its height. everyone died because they did not see any This regional centre, less than an hour from wish list. Last October, after four years of The Ghent City Pavilion; detail from the 15th-century Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck. Where to stay in Ypres Ah, that Waltzing Matilda. I am so happy to Brussels, allows its medieval splendour to sit restoration, the 15th-century Flemish bodies shaking when they came up to survey Ypres Ariane Hotel be proven wrong, and offer them a silent the scene. comfortably alongside a chic modern depiction of Christ and the Annunciation was new public library, De Krook, which has from huge Scrabble tiles (buy your partner’s Slachthuisstraat 58. apology. The moment is profoundly moving; Walking around this area, we see trees with sensibility. Whether it’s the rustic character of unveiled in all its radiant glory in St Bavo’s become an instant hit since it was opened in name), to cool wall calendars and monkey- ariane.be/en; Novotel this retired nurse delivers a personal tribute to painted metal baskets around them. The blue its old quarter, the asymmetrical audacity of its Cathedral. With more than 100 figures in its March. This low, long structure juts boldly lamps (pietmoodshop.be). Just up the road is Ypres Centrum a young Brisbane soldier whose story was ones represent the British frontline, the red modern buildings or an eclectic mix of design multiple panels, the altarpiece is a magnet for over the canal, with two huge floors hanging The Other Shop, a hip new bookstore with Flanders Fields Hotel, passed on by their Belgian guide, who heard ones the German. At some point, we can see culture, Ghent offers pleasures for all tastes. visitors, and the cathedral also packs a punch over the lower floors. everything from luxe travel books to bizarre Sint Jacobsstraat 15. about it herself from a Brisbane school that the front is only 30 metres wide, which The best way to acquaint yourself with the with its massive vaulted ceiling. The whole building has only one door, and anatomy titles, and gravity-defying wooden accorhotels.com teacher. meant the soldiers could see the faces of the city’s charms is by hopping into the water. The A stone’s throw away stands the ultra- unfolds upwards and outwards to create a puzzles (find it on Facebook). Where to stay in The night before, in the centre of Ypres, other young men they were trying to kill, and guided canal tours offer a potted history of modern Ghent City Pavilion, which has the community centre that locals like to just hang If you need to recharge, the Belfort Food Bar Brussels there was another tribute to the fallen at the who were trying to kill them. Ghent’s rise as a prosperous trading hub, the roof of a church resting on four concrete pillars out in, even if they’re not enjoying its is a large, cosy bistro submerged beneath the The Dominican Hotel Menin Gate, a huge memorial dedicated to the On the southern part of Hill 60, we visit a stories behind its grand and kooky guild and is open on all sides. Look mum, no walls. considerable resources. ultra-cool City Pavilion, with excellent seafood Rue Leópold 9. nearly 55,000 Commonwealth soldiers who place called The Caterpillar, where the land is buildings, and some fun facts about the This award-winning building, all wood and A short stroll from the library lies an inviting pasta and burgers. For a more substantial dominican.brussels- were killed in WWI battles in the area and still deformed by a massive crater caused by thousands of bicycles dumped into the glass and defying easy description, points the array of design, art and concept stores that meal, Oude Vismijn offers tasty brasserie fare hotels.netn whose graves are unknown. Several hundred the shelling. It measures 80 metres across and waterways every year. city firmly into the future. It is stunning to cater for all manner of aesthetic tastes. in a modernised medieval barn looking over For more information people gathered at 8pm to witness the 15 metres deep, and as we walk down the Back on land, the city’s biggest jewel is the behold. The Piet Mood Shop is an interior design and the main canal. L&L See visitflanders.com sounding of the Last Post, and the laying of The Last Post is played every night at the Menin Gate memorial to the Commonwealth fallen, Ypres. lumpy grass to the bottom, we see a ring of Ghent Altarpiece, described by The Guardian Joining it in the must-see stakes is Ghent’s gift store with an eclectic range of goodies, MICHAEL VISONTAY or toerisme-ieper.be AFRGA1 L008

SOLEMN: A digger at the dawn service commemorating the battle of Polygon Wood in 1917. ELLA PELLEGRINI ELLEN WHINNETT Reproduced by Gorkana under licence from the NLA (newspapers), CLA (magazines), FT (Financial Times/ft.com) or other copyright owner. No further copying (including printing of digital cuttings), digital reproduction/forwarding of the cutting is permitted except under licence from the copyright POLYGON WOOD, BELGIUM owner. All FT content is copyright The Financial Times Ltd. Article Page 1 of 2 ALMOST 1000 people have battle there 100 years ago. Beforehand many walked lian and German front lines 409455152 - MIKSOT - DC267-2 made an emotional journey Descendants of the fallen a 1km reflective trail through to pay respects. to Polygon Wood in Belgium gathered yesterday among the the forest where the bloody During the spine-tingling to honour the 5700 young headstones at the Buttes New battle raged on September 26, walk, faces of the fallen were Australian soldiers killed in British Cemetery outside Zon- 1917, pausing at the Austra- projected onto the trees, ac- 80 nebeke for a dawn service. Source: The Daily Telegraph {Travel} Edition: Country: UK Date: Saturday 29, July 2017 Page: 9,10 Source: The Daily Telegraph {Travel} Area: 1033 sq. cm Edition: Circulation: ABC 484010 Daily Country: UK Date: Saturday 29, July 2017 Ad data: page rate £46,000.00, scc rate £214.00 Page: 9,10 Phone: 020 7931 2000 Area: 1033 sq. cm Circulation: ABC 484010 Daily Ad data: page rate £46,000.00, scc rate £214.00 Keyword: Visit Flanders Phone: 020 7931 2000 Keyword: Visit Flanders

Source: The Daily Telegraph {Travel} Edition: Country: UK Date: Saturday 29, July 2017 Page: 9,10 Area: 1033 sq. cm Circulation: ABC 484010 Daily Ad data: page rate £46,000.00, scc rate £214.00 Phone: 020 7931 2000 ‘Down there, Keyword: Visit Flanders they were safe died? Central to any visit must be the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 cemeteries, and first among those is Tyne Cot, the world’s largest thing. And once it shuts on Commonwealth war-grave November 10 that’s it. It’ll be closed cemetery and the final forever, and allowed to re-flood with resting place for 11,953 souls. from shells’ water,” says Degroote, a little sadly, As well as the immaculate as we stand looking at the scale ranks of gravestones, Tyne The centenary of model of the tunnel housed inside Cot also enshrines the the Memorial Museum remains of the battlefield, Passchendaele 1917. “It may and the visitors’ centre Passchendaele gives be our last chance to see here displays the hauls DESIGN INNOVATION ON SHOW AT DENFAIR TRAVEL UNEXPECTED SWITZERLAND FOOD COUPLES THERAPY an original relic of the ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● of shrapnel cleared visitors a unique Great War.” from the ground when GETTY IMAGES; ALAMY; EMMA THOMSON ALAMY; IMAGES; GETTY At the height of the the cemetery was built. war, more soldiers Originally a German perspective on what were surviving Passchendaele was one of the defining stronghold, its bunkers served as conflicts of the First World War underground in the s advanced dressing stations, with those soldiers endured Ypres area than the who died from their wounds being Source: The Daily Telegraph {Travel} 35,000 people Edition: buried round about and marked with underground, says Country: UK living in the city wooden crosses. Control of it passed Date: Saturday 29, July 2017 today. Zonnebeke, back and forth until the Belgian Army Life & Page: 9,10 at the heart of the claimed it in September 1918. Emma Thomson Area: 1033 sq. cm Ypres Salient and so Almost as many soldiers lie buried in Circulation: ABC 484010 Daily open to shelling from Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery near Ad data: page rate £46,000.00, scc rate £214.00 three sides, had the largest Poperinge, west of Ypres. It sat beyond hundred years ago, a Ypres, in Belgium – sat at the centre of Phone: 020 7931 2000 concentration of underground the reach of German artillery fire and group of British, the Ypres Salient, a Front Line bulge Keyword: constructions in the entire area. More 9-11 June 2017 Visit Flanders was used as a field hospital for the LeısureThe Australian Financial Review | www.afr.com AFR that fluctuated by just a few miles for than 180 have been located, but only a Australian and entirety of the war, with treatment the duration of the conflict. few have been explored and – Canadian tunnellers Reproduced by Gorkana under licence from the NLA (newspapers), CLA (magazines), FT (Financial Times/ft.com) or other copyright owner. No further rooms cobbled together inside were constructing a The tunnellers never finished copying (including printing of digital cuttings), digital reproduction/forwarding of the cutting is permitted except protectedunder licence from by the thecopyright foundations of the owner. All FT content is copyright The Financial Times Ltd. abandoned farm buildings. Many of the digging. The Battle of Passchendaele formerArticle church Page 3 of 6 – Zonnebeke Church dugout directly 397374426 - DIMDAL - DC267-2 - 128026171 casualties from Passchendaele were beneath the ruins of Zonnebeke lost its momentum and the Allies were Dugout is one of the best-preserved brought here, and the green space is A examples in the region. home to 10,784 graves. parish church. These underground forced to retreat for fear of being Its opening is part of a series of shelters that connected with the South of Zonnebeke is Polygon surrounded. When the war was won events commemorating the Wood, which was lost to the Germans trench systems were the only nine months later, the battlefields centenary of the Battle of in May 1915, completely razed during protection against the constant were cleared and entrances to these Passchendaele. Also known as the fighting, and not recaptured until shellfire on the front line. Digging underground constructions closed up. Third Battle of Ypres, it became one September 1917. It is dedicated to the them out was a grim job. As they toiled For 71 years, the Zonnebeke Church of the defining conflicts of the First Australian and New Zealand divisions World War, lasting 100 days and in the dim light, liquid mud sloshing Dugout lay forgotten. Then, in 1989, it who died defending the position in 1917. claiming half a million casualties for A walled avenue leads across the road around their boots, the tunnellers was rediscovered by a team of the sake of a five-mile advance. would have heard the muffled boom of archaeologists trying to locate the to Buttes New British Cemetery. Thunderous rain turned the Purpose-built after the Armistice, it’s shells exploding overhead. Their Allied 12th-century crypt of an Augustinian battlefield into a quagmire of mud comrades were fighting to fend off the burial ground for 2,108 soldiers abbey that once stood on this site. that drowned tanks, horses and men brought in from the battlefields of advancing German forces in the final as they tried to reclaim the high Zonnebeke – mostly in 1917 – more than stages of the Battle of Passchendaele, Now – with careful drainage, ground at Passchendaele and push half of which were never identified. IN FLANDERSone of the bloodiest of the First World research and a 3D inventory complete the Germans back from the coast, in Also worth visiting is the War. It was particularly intense here: – the dugout will be opened to the order to destroy their submarine Passchendaele Memorial, which bases that threatened Britain’s supply 12 Oct 2017 FIELDS THEthe village of Zonnebeke – northeast of public on Tuesday, the centenary of covers the land once occupied by Crest lines and the American Farm – a site of particularly stubborn Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton VIC POPPIES BLOW reinforcements arriving by ship. German resistance. The modest square A total of 61 Victoria Crosses were monument is dedicated to the Author: Arthur Haskell • Section: General News • Article type : News Item TRAVEL GUIDE awarded – the most of any single battle. Canadian troops who fought there, and Classification : Regional • Audience : 3,949 • Page: 5 • Printed Size: 924.00cm² So, apart from visiting the dugout, how is, fittingly, lined with maple trees. 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Circulation: ABC 28872 Daily ...expert advice & money-saving tips Remembrance trail links significant sights Ad data: page rate £11,286.00, scc rate £26.50 Phone: 0141 302 7000 WITH TRAVEL EDITOR NIGEL THOMPSON Keyword: FLANDERS Travel INSIDERS AND DEPUTY MARJORIE YUE More and more Australians are 25 Apr 2017 making the journey to West Australian, Perth Author: MALCOLM QUEKETT • Section: Supplements • Article type : News Item In Flanders fields Audience : 153,763 • Page: 4 • Printed Size: 1854.00cm² etc TRAVEL battlefields of the Western Front • Market: WA BY NIGEL THOMPSON Country: Australia • ASR: AUD 32,504 • Words: 1344 • Item ID: 763605662 Flanders One man’s pilgrimage to the fields (June 30TYNE – September Cot – biggest 2): alliedThis cemetery.tells Photo: SUPPLIED. the story of the women involved where his grandfather’s life changed for ever here will be no more DAVID YOUNG This year the centenary is being marked between 1914-18, from nurses to MALCOLM Licensed by Copyright Agency. You may only copy or communicate this work with a licence. by a range of ceremonies, exhibitions and poignant place to be in prostitutes. A “comfort route” takes Page 3 of 6 HE old soldier’s voice cracks as events across what is now a rural idyll. QUEKETT he reaches the final line of a verse The fight for Passchendaele village was 2018 than Flanders. visitors through pavilions decorated synonymous with the fallen. The but one of a series of major conflagrations veteran pauses and bows his on the Ypres Salient through the course It saw the worst of the of the war – four years that saw countless with healing art and consoling shellfire and left in ruins. The head, momentarily obscuring T teams were detonated, his taut face beneath a pristine navy beret, perish for a stretch of land you could now slaughter on the Western Front in T poetry. poperinge14-18.be hile the Australian before concluding poet Laurence Binyon’s traverse in a brisk morning walk. name Passchendaele became for obliterating German positions. The Commonwealth forces alone lost the “war to end all wars” and the ■ emotive stanza. HIPPO.WAR, Waregem: Two World War I ever associated with the war SITEBritish, 12 4TH New AUSTRALIAN Zealand and “At the going down of the sun and in the 185,000 lives in the area between 1914 and Belgian region will be marking morning, we will remember them.” 1918. The names of 55,000 whose bodies permanent exhibitions examine the narrative has during the Third Battle of Ypres, DIVISION MEMORIAL, He is surrounded by crowds, yet the were never found are engraved on the white the centenary of the Armistice role of the US and of horses through traditionally fought to the east of the town BELLENGLISE, FRANCE pensioner strikes a solitary figure beneath Portland-stone walls of the Menin Gate. Australian troops, who had the neoclassical arches of Ypres’ Menin Another 48,000 missing are listed on two with a year of compelling events. photo, clips, audio files and arte- focused on between July 31 and November Between September 18 and 20, Gate, his grandfather’s medal pinned to his other memorials in the area. 1918,endured the 48th a gas Battalion, attack 4th in left breast, as he honours a man he never Before I retrace my grandfather’s steps Here’s our pick... WGallipoli, in truth that was only 10, 1917. got the chance to meet. over the hills where so many still lie, lost facts, an interactive quiz and a horse ■ DivisionPloegsteert of the WoodAIF, fought in the its opening Moments earlier three volunteer buglers to the earth upon which they fell, I leave Coming World Remember Me a small part of the full story. The story is told in the In the shadow of the Menin Gate to venture hospital. h ippowar.be last successful action on the from the local fire station had played a moments of what became known haunting rendition of the Last Post – the further into Ypres – a town resurrected – Palingbeek park, near Ypres ■ v t l n r m The Australian losses in Flanders Fields Museum in the from the ashes of war. More info: isi f a de s.co Westernas the BattleFront. Advancingof Messines, on took notes drifting out towards Flanders Fields, (March 30 – November 11): This Turkey in 1915 were soon Cloth Hall, rebuilt after being the Hindenburg Outpost Line as they have done every evening, apart from Obliterated by shell bombardment, the the devastated ridge. the years of Nazi occupation, since 1928. task of piecing Ypres back together began eclipsed by the carnage on the reduced to rubble in the war. “I was moved, really moved,” the retired art installation will have 600,000 nearThe Bellenglise, battle cost the 6000division Australian in 1918 – and it would be 50 years until handmade figurines spread out in battlefields of France and took more than 4300 prisoners corporal admits, as we chat at the close of it was complete. Turning slowly as I scan casualties. At the edge of the a nightly act of remembrance that draws the mix of late medieval, Renaissance and the open to create a “no-man’s land”, Belgium, known as the Western SITE 2 TYNE COT CEMETERY, for 1260 casualties. hundreds of thousands of visitors every Gothic facades that surround the cobbled woodThe division’s is Toronto memorial Avenue in year. “My grandfather died in the first war. main square, it is staggering to think it’s all 23 Sep 2017 accompanied by war poetry and an Front, where the Diggers fought ZONNEBEKE, BELGIUM That was for him.” a 20th-century construct. FranceCemetery, is high an above exclusively Bellenglise. 26 Sep 2017 My trip, like his, is personal. One of the most impressive rebuilds, Adelaide Advertiser, Adelaide wrm between 1916 and 1918. Tyne Cot is the biggest British My grandfather – Sapper William John the Cloth Hall – its belfry tower standing observation bridge. c .be SOURCES:Australian AUSTRALIAN burial WAR MEMORIAL; ground. The There were 8709 Diggers killed and Commonwealth war The Australian, AustraliaYoung – survived the war and I’m now in sentinel over the town below – is now Author: Ellen Whinnett • Section: General News • Article type : News Item ■ WWI, The Battle For The North DEPARTMENTstories areOF VETERANS’ told at AFFAIRS. the Plugstreet the corner of Belgium where, 100 years ago, home to the In Flanders Field Museum, Classification : Capital City Daily • Audience : 156,374 • Page: 52 as a result of the eight-month cemetery in the world. There are ...... Author: Ross McMullinhe was seriously • Section: wounded duringGeneral a battle News one • of Article three standout type museums : News in the Item Sea – Provincial Court, Bruges that serves as a byword for the horrors of Printed Size: 1860.00cm² • Market: SA • Country: Australia • ASR: AUD 38,067 14-18 Experience interpretive Classification : National • Audience : 96,602 • Page:area, along 11 with • thePrinted Memorial Size: Museum 1587.00cm² of Words: 1650 • Item ID: 848953184 (April 21 – August 31): The occu- Gallipoli campaign and more 11,953 headstones of men killed ᔡ For further details: the Western Front – Passchendaele. Passchendaele in nearby Zonnebeke and centre.ww1westernfront.gov.au Market: National •Around Country: 500,000 Australiamen were killed • orASR: AUDthe privately-owned 32,071 • Words:Hooge Crater 2042 Museum. than 17,000 men wounded. or who died of wounds in the injured on both sides in the cloying Leaving the exhibits in search of the pying Germans installed a vast Item ID: 850079663Flanders mud during three-and-a-half About 295,000 Australians defence of Ypres between 1914 battlefields they depict, my first stop is network of ports, artillery batteries, SITE 4 VC CORNER brutal months in 1917, when blood and rain Licensed by Copyright Agency. You may only copy or communicate this work with a licence. Page 1 of 5 served on the Western Front, and 1918. On October 4, 1917, the soaked the trenches. Essex Farm on the outskirts of Ypres, one of bunkers and airfields in this area 27 Sep 2017 AUSTRALIAN CEMETERY AND For those colossal losses, the front line more than 150 war cemeteries that dot the more than 46,000 died and cemetery was part of the battle Licensed by Copyrightmoved Agency. a mere You five miles.may only copy or communicatesurrounding this area. work with a licence. MEMORIAL, FROMELLES, It was here in 1915, overlooking the grave Page 1 of 4 and, operating from Ostend and Adelaide Advertiser, Adelaide 132,000 were wounded. of Broodseinde Ridge. The Great Zeebrugge, they sent 2,550 Allied FRANCEThe Australian National Memorial Increasing numbers of Cross in the cemetery sits on the at Villers-Bretonneux. ships to the bottom of the sea. The Author: Ellen Whinnett • Section: International News • Article type : News Item Fromelles, the first major battle 23 Sep 2017 Australians have, over recent remains of a German concrete Picture: Chris Manly Reproduced by Gorkana under licence from the NLA (newspapers), CLA (magazines), FT (Financial Times/ft.com) or other copyright owner. No further Classification : Capital City Daily • Audience : 117,273 • Page: 26 fought by Australian troops on copying (including printing of digital cuttings), digital reproduction/forwarding of the cutting is permitted except under licence from the copyright Herald Sun, Melbourne court will display historic artefacts OVER THE years, been making the journey owner. All FT content is copyright The Financial Times Ltd. Printed Size: 435.00cm² • Market: SA • Country: Australia • ASR: AUD 6,471 bunker which was captured by Article Page 1 of 4 the Western Front, began when 398648759 - DIMDAL - DC267-2 - 128513174 and never-before-seen illustrations TOP Flanders to some of those battlefields to the 3rd Australian Division. Author: Ellen Whinnett • Section: General News • Article type : News Item Words: 253 • Item ID: 850631986 r m m r the 5th Australian and 61st to shed light on the conflict. vl iz.be e e be s pay their respects along what is In the muddy countryside Classification : Capital City Daily • Audience : 322,360 • Page: 53 ” British divisions attacked on Printed Size: 1160.00cm² • Market: VIC • Country: Australia • ASR: AUD 57,674 now known as the Australian around the town of Final salute to heroic Words: 1210 • Item ID: 848912789 July 19, 1916, meeting heavy Reproduced by Gorkana under licence from the NLA (newspapers), CLA (magazines), FT (Financial Times/ft.com) or other copyright owner. No further ■ The Final Offensive In Flanders Licensed by Copyright Agency. You may only copy or communicate this work with a licence. Remembrance Trail. Passchendaele in October25 Apr 2017 1917 VICTORY OUT OF THE MIRE Page 1 of 2 resistance from German The trail, developed by the the Australians lost 6673 dead. copying (including printing of digital cuttings), digital reproduction/forwarding of the cutting is permitted except under licence from the copyright – Zonnebeke area (April 21 – West Australian, Perth machinegunners. Devoid of owner. All FT content is copyright The Financial Times Ltd. Australian Department of The story is told in a visitors’ Article Page 2 of 2 Licensed by Copyright Agency. You may only copy or communicate this work with a licence. Page 1 of 3 November 11): An exhibition in flanking support and subjected Veterans’ Affairs with the centre at the cemeteryAuthor: and MALCOLM in the QUEKETT • Section: Supplements • Article type : News Item 409455152 - MIKSOT - DC267-2 three locations – Memorial Museum Audience : 153,763 • Page:to fierce4 • Printed counterattacks, Size: 1854.00cm² they • Market: WA French and Belgian Memorial Museum Passchendaele, HIPPO.WAR Country: Australia • ASR:were AUD forced32,504 • toWords: withdraw. 1344 • Item ID: 763605662 Diggers of Polygon governments and local Passchendaele 1917, in nearby Waregem (see below) and Heuvel- The Australians suffered 5533 communities, links significant Zonnebeke. Source: Herald, The (Glasgow) {Magazine} land Visitor Centre – connected by casualties, the British 1547. The Edition: Australian WWI sites, from Country: UK The farmlands of Belgium are dotted with the graves a tourist route will highlight the last Licensed by Copyright Agency. attackYou may only was copy a or complete communicate failurethis work with in a licence. Date: Saturday 12, August 2017 around Passchendaele in SITE 3 TORONTO AVENUE Page 5 of 6 Page: 36,37 year of the war and the country’s what was the most costly 24- Area: 1102 sq. cm and cemeteries of fallen Australian soldiers. Near a spot Polygon Belgium to the area of some of CEMETERY, PLOEGSTEERT Circulation: ABC 28872 Daily liberation by Belgian and American hour period in Australia’s war Ad data: page rate £11,286.00, scc rate £26.50 the last Australian actions in WOOD, BELGIUM Phone: 0141 302 7000 called Polygon Wood one man has found an affinity with troops. The role of Belgium’s King Keyword: FLANDERS France near Peronne. Before dawn on June 7, 1917, the stories of these men from afar and won’t let them Albert I in the offensive will also be pilgrims’ explosives packed under explained. passc hendaele.be SITE 1 YPRES (IEPER), BELGIUM German trenches by tunnelling be forgotten, writes ELLEN WHINNETT. ■ Healing Exhibition – Poperinge The town was devastated by Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium is the biggest British and Commonwealth war cemetery in the world. OHAN Vandewal- le doesn’t believe in honour Vandewalle that he went to etc TRAVEL ghosts. But he knows Australia to meet the soldier’s family, and learned the history Flanders One man’s pilgrimage to the fields Stretcher-bearers walk what he saw late throughthrough PolygonPolygon WoodWood one night in the of how this young man came to fallen AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL to be buried with such obvious Reproduced by Gorkana under licence from the NLA (newspapers), CLA (magazines), FT (Financial Times/ft.com) or other copyright owner. No further where his grandfather’s life changed for ever moonlight illumi- This year the centenary is being marked care, decades before. copying (including printing of digital cuttings), digital reproduction/forwarding of the cutting is permitted except under licence from the copyright DAVID YOUNG nating the war cemetery at by a range of ceremonies, exhibitions and JPolygon Wood in Belgium. “I told the soldier ‘I will find20 Sep 2017 events across what is now a rural idyll. owner. All FT content is copyright The Financial Times Ltd. HE old soldier’s voice cracks as ‘Pompey’ Elliott’s acumen at Polygon f t t ’ ’’ h id Herald Sun, Melbourne Article Page 1 of 1 he reaches the final line of a verse The fight for Passchendaele village was Brigadier-General Harold “Pom- poured into the gap. Thirty Australian soldiers, but one of a series of major conflagrations 410712175 - CHRDIC - DC267-2 - 132948511 synonymous with the fallen. The Wood helped to further Allied success pey” Elliott, who became Austra- Freeman’s 58th, increasingly in slouch hats and their World Author: Mat Mclachlan • Section: General News • Article type : News Item veteran pauses and bows his on the Ypres Salient through the course War I dress uniforms. They’d Classification : Capital City Daily • Audience : 316,499 • Page: 20 head, momentarily obscuring of the war – four years that saw countless lia’s most famous fighting general. exposed on their right, hung on de- Printed Size: 829.00cm² • Market: VIC • Country: Australia • ASR: AUD 46,031 This taut face beneath a pristine navy beret, perish for a stretch of land you could now ROSS McMULLIN The operation was to be carried spite growing casualties. But their been dead for almost 100 Words: 954 • Item ID: 846952195 before concluding poet Laurence Binyon’s traverse in a brisk morning walk. situation became more and more years, Vandewalle knows. emotive stanza. The Commonwealth forces alone lost out in two phases. In Elliott’s brig- 185,000 lives in the area between 1914 and But here they were, appear- “At the going down of the sun and in the have sometimes portrayed it as a ade, this would involve an initial precarious, and they requested re- Licensed by Copyright Agency. You may only copy or communicate this work with a licence. Page 1 of 4 morning, we will remember them.” 1918. The names of 55,000 whose bodies relatively straightforward affair. inforcements. Elliott sent forward ing to him as a vision, in a He is surrounded by crowds, yet the were never found are engraved on the white advance by the 60th Battalion to misty cemetery at midnight. pensioner strikes a solitary figure beneath Portland-stone walls of the Menin Gate. According to these appraisals, the part of the 60th. It was supposed to Another 48,000 missing are listed on two “Sometimes you have to be the neoclassical arches of Ypres’ Menin operation from a macro perspec- an objective on the eastern side of be spearheading the attack in 20 Gate, his grandfather’s medal pinned to his other memorials in the area. the wood (the red line), followed careful talking about this,’’ left breast, as he honours a man he never Before I retrace my grandfather’s steps tive basically went according to hours, but Elliott concluded that over the hills where so many still lie, lost by a subsequent advance by the V d ll f th when he was fatally wounded got the chance to meet. plan: a superlative barrage paved there would be no attack at all un- Moments earlier three volunteer buglers to the earth upon which they fell, I leave 57th and 59th battalions to the in the first advance on Sep- the shadow of the Menin Gate to venture the way for a successful advance, less this German incursion was re- from the local fire station had played a ultimate objective (the blue line). tember 26. haunting rendition of the Last Post – the further into Ypres – a town resurrected A notable ceremony concerning the few minor hiccups that arose pulsed. notes drifting out towards Flanders Fields, from the ashes of war. But the Germans realised what Jim dragged him away Obliterated by shell bombardment, the World War I will occur today in were quickly resolved, and the bat- The devastating enemy bar- as they have done every evening, apart from was coming and sought to disrupt from the line of fire, and after- the years of Nazi occupation, since 1928. task of piecing Ypres back together began Belgium. It will commemorate tle proved to be a sweeping victory rage continued to crash down. The wards, buried him with gPreat roud “I was moved, really moved,” the retired in 1918 – and it would be 50 years until Australia’s contribution at the for the attackers. these plans with a pre-emptive at- Germans knew the exact location “It’s my passion. I grew up corporal admits, as we chat at the close of it was complete. Turning slowly as I scan tack. On September 25, 100 years on the battlefields.’’ care and love, promising to re- ZONNEBEKE, BELGIUM a nightly act of remembrance that draws Western Front in 1917, which re- But such conclusions are of the various AIF headquarters the mix of late medieval, Renaissance and The battle of Polygon t f hi hundreds of thousands of visitors every Gothic facades that surround the cobbled mains our worst year since Euro- flawed. They don’t allow suffi- ago yesterday, they unleashed a and strong points because they OHAN Vandewalle doesn’t battle of Polygon Wood, a terrible continued to be found, often by year. “My grandfather died in the first war. main square, it is staggering to think it’s all bombardment of exceptional Wood, 8km from the Belgian believe in ghosts. clash between German and Allied accident through earthmoving and That was for him.” a 20th-century construct. pean settlement. ciently for the difficulties on the had previously occupied these po- town of Ypres, ran from Sep- My trip, like his, is personal. One of the most impressive rebuilds, The Australian Imperial Force right of the attack. What happened force on the 15th Brigade and the sitions themselves. The difficulties But he knows what he saw forces that claimed the lives of 5700 construction works. When they are, My grandfather – Sapper William John the Cloth Hall – its belfry tower standing 98th British Brigade alongside. tember 26 to October 3, 1917, one night three years ago, in young Australians. Vandewalle, an amateur Young – survived the war and I’m now in sentinel over the town below – is now endured more casualties in 1917 there constituted more than a for Elliott and his men were exac- and while it ultimately re- legacy, the corner of Belgium where, 100 years ago, British intelligence later conclud- the moonlight illuminating The battle tore the ground apart, archaeologist, is called in to assist. home to the In Flanders Field Museum, than in any other year of this or minor hiccup. erbated by the repeated claims of ll d th G f th he was seriously wounded during a battle one of three standout museums in the ed that German artillery concen- Jthe war cemetery at Polygon Wood flattened every tree and churned the “My last soldier was an Australian, that serves as a byword for the horrors of any other war. Polygon Wood was planned as the 98th British Brigade that they area, along with the Memorial Museum of tration had never been greater. in Belgium. fields to a filthy sea of mud and gore. on Anzac Day, 2013. He is still an the Western Front – Passchendaele. Passchendaele in nearby Zonnebeke and Severe AIF casualties accumu- the second of a series of step-by- had regained their frontline when Around 500,000 men were killed or the privately-owned Hooge Crater Museum. lated at numerous terrible battles step battles east of Ypres. An The unit occupying the front the 58th officers on the spot kept Thirty Diggers, in slouch hats and A century on, the peaceful unknown soldier,’’ he says. injured on both sides in the cloying Leaving the exhibits in search of the line in the 15th Brigade’s sector, the dress uniforms. They’d been dead for farmland and streets around Flanders mud during three-and-a-half in 1917, including Bullecourt, assault by four Australian brigades Five of these soldiers, brought to brutal months in 1917, when blood and rain battlefields they depict, my first stop is 58th Battalion (led by Major Neil almost 100 years, Vandewalle knows. Zonnebeke mask the whereabouts of soaked the trenches. Essex Farm on the outskirts of Ypres, one of Messines, Menin Road, Brood- was to be launched on Septem- terrible light in 2006, have had such a more than 150 war cemeteries that dot the Freeman, Geelong’s fullback in But here they were, in a misty thousands of unknown soldiers who For those colossal losses, the front line seinde and Passchendaele. But the ber 26, 1917, with advances by Brit- profound impact on him that he moved a mere five miles. surrounding area. the VFL), had never endured such cemetery at midnight. still lie beneath the fields — soldiers It was here in 1915, overlooking the grave battle chosen for the official Aus- ish brigades on both flanks. “Sometimes you have to be careful Vandewalle, a farmer and publican, dreams about them at night. The tralian commemoration was the On the right of the attack, with ferocious shellfire. The 58th stood Zonnebeke Five were found when firm despite severe losses, but the talking about this,’’ Vandewalle says. has dedicated his adult life to finding one that began 100 years ago yes- the most difficult task, was the 15th “People think you are an idiot. But and identifying. workers were laying a gas pipeline adjacent British battalion was under the road 1.5km away from Reproduced by Gorkana under licence from the NLA (newspapers), CLA (magazines), FT (Financial Times/ft.com) or other copyright owner. No further terday at Polygon Wood and be- AIF Brigade commanded by Flanders is like this. “It’s my passion,” Vandewalle, 56, copying (including printing of digital cuttings), digital reproduction/forwarding of the cutting is permitted except under licence from the copyright driven back. Advancing Germans burden Vandewalle’s pub, Café De Dreve. owner. All FT content is copyright The Financial Times Ltd. came a seminal Australian victory. “It is full of secrets.” says. “I grew up on the battlefields.’’ Article Page 1 of 4 Commonwealth soldiers missing delighted to be allocated to the They were taken to the cemetery 398648759 - DIMDAL - DC267-2 - 128513174 Assessments of Polygon Wood He is speaking from the front bar The battle of Polygon Wood, 8km from the horrific battles of World same battalion, the 17th. at Polygon Wood and reburied with War I that raged around Ypres. By 1917 they hadof arrived his pub on the 1km down the road from from Ypres, ran from September 26 As I walked through the Western Front andth thee Buttesy could tell New British Cemetery, the to October 3 and, while the Germans full military honours. memorial, scanning the seemingly that something bifginal was inresting the air. place for 2108 were ultimately repelled, the toll on Two have been identified: endless lists of names of boys from The British were planning to break Sergeant George Calder, from Bournemouth and Bristol, from out of the Ypres Salient,Commonwealth the ring of soldiers, many of both sides was horrific. Cape Town and Calcutta, I came to trenches that hadt hhemmeem bud inri ed without a name. Many of those who fell were Victoria, and Private John Hunter, MAT the Australian section. Ypres since the earliestThis days Tuesdaof the y, September 26, hastily buried close to the front line. from Queensland, whose identity was Of the more than 6000 names war, and the Aussies were going to confirmed by DNA tests in 2006. McLACHLAN here, a fraction of the 20,000 play a big part in themarks attack. the On centenary of the bloody Over the years, their remains have HE Menin Gate Aussies who fell in these fields in September 20, 100 years ago today, Memorial stands 1917, two stood out: GL and TR the 17th Battalion joined thousands SOLEMN: A digger at the dawn service commemorating the battle of Polygon Wood in 1917. ELLA PELLEGRINI triumphantly in the SEABROOK. It’s an unusual of troops from Australia, Britain Belgian town of Ypres. At name, and the two located side by and New Zealand in an attack first glance, it resembles side surely couldn’t be a along the Menin Road. ELLEN WHINNETT theT dozens of other arches coincidence. A bit of research For the Seabrook boys, it would scattered across Europe — its revealed that it wasn’t and told a be their first and last battle. POLYGON WOOD, BELGIUM soaring columns and vaulted story of grief that today is nearly We don’t know exactly what archway commemorating a long- impossible to comprehend. happened to George and Theo — ago victory over a forgotten foe. ALMOST 1000 people have battle there 100 years ago. Beforehand many walked lian and German front lines George and Theo Seabrook one account says they were killed But unlike the Arc de Triomphe were the oldest sons of William by the same shell. made an emotional journey Descendants of the fallen a 1km reflective trail through to pay respects. and the Brandenburg Gate, this and Fanny Seabrook of Petersham, The upshot is that they went memorial speaks as much about to Polygon Wood in Belgium gathered yesterday among the the forest where the bloody During the spine-tingling inner Sydney. They joined up in into the attack but never came out loss as it does about victory. Etched 1916 with their younger brother, and were both listed as wounded, into its walls are the names of more to honour the 5700 young headstones at the Buttes New battle raged on September 26, walk, faces of the fallen were William, and all three boys were then missing, then dead. William Australian soldiers killed in British Cemetery outside Zon- 1917, pausing at the Austra- projected onto the trees, ac- than 54,000 British and nebeke for a dawn service. 81 82 2018

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83 When the ceasefi re was signed on 11 November 1918, the war came to an end. Will the commemoration of the Great War fall silent 100 years later? 2018 Or has the commemoration gained power and relevance due to the frequent and intensive con- Toen op 11 november 1918 de wapenstilstand werd wekkende manier herdenken ze de 600.000 WO I-slacht- frontation with the history of the Great War over getekend, stopte het oorlogsgeweld. Zal honderd jaar offers op Belgische bodem. Even duidelijk is de bood- the past few years? later de herdenking van de Groote Oorlog dan stilval- schap dat het verdere lot van de wereld en de herdenking len? Of heeft herdenken juist aan kracht en relevantie in handen ligt van de huidige en komende generaties. The images of ‘Coming World x Remember me’ are gewonnen door de grondige en veelvuldige confron- CWxRM is ook het thema van de voorjaarscampagne van united in a land art installation. This is an impressive tatie met de geschiedenis van de Groote Oorlog de Toerisme Vlaanderen. We bereiken 3,8 miljoen video views way to remember the 600,000 WW1 victims who voorbije jaren? op Facebook en meer dan 51.000 link clicks. drew their last breath on Belgian soil. It also testifi es that the world’s future - and the commemoration De beeldjes van ‘Coming World x Remember me’ worden Troost en hoop zijn ook de kernwoorden in de ten- lie in the hands of present and future generations. samengebracht in een landschapskunstwerk. Op indruk- toonstelling ‘Healing’ in Poperinge. CWxRM is also the theme of VISITFLANDERS’ spring campaign. We reach 3,8 million video views on Face- book and more than 51,000 link clicks.

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84 85 When the ceasefi re was signed on 11 November 1918, the war came to an end. Will the commemoration of the Great War fall silent 100 years later? 2018 Or has the commemoration gained power and relevance due to the frequent and intensive con- Toen op 11 november 1918 de wapenstilstand werd wekkende manier herdenken ze de 600.000 WO I-slacht- frontation with the history of the Great War over getekend, stopte het oorlogsgeweld. Zal honderd jaar offers op Belgische bodem. Even duidelijk is de bood- the past few years? later de herdenking van de Groote Oorlog dan stilval- schap dat het verdere lot van de wereld en de herdenking len? Of heeft herdenken juist aan kracht en relevantie in handen ligt van de huidige en komende generaties. The images of ‘Coming World x Remember me’ are gewonnen door de grondige en veelvuldige confron- CWxRM is ook het thema van de voorjaarscampagne van united in a land art installation. This is an impressive tatie met de geschiedenis van de Groote Oorlog de Toerisme Vlaanderen. We bereiken 3,8 miljoen video views way to remember the 600,000 WW1 victims who voorbije jaren? op Facebook en meer dan 51.000 link clicks. drew their last breath on Belgian soil. It also testifi es that the world’s future - and the commemoration De beeldjes van ‘Coming World x Remember me’ worden Troost en hoop zijn ook de kernwoorden in de ten- lie in the hands of present and future generations. samengebracht in een landschapskunstwerk. Op indruk- toonstelling ‘Healing’ in Poperinge. CWxRM is also the theme of VISITFLANDERS’ spring campaign. We reach 3,8 million video views on Face- book and more than 51,000 link clicks.

/ Coming World x Remember Me, Palingbeek, Ieper / Coming World x Remember Me, Palingbeek, Ypres Comfort and hope are the key words in the ‘Heal- ing’ exhibition held in Poperinge.

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Zal WO I ook betekenis blijven houden voor de gene- Will WW1 remain significant for the generations raties van morgen? Vele scholen programmeren een of tomorrow? Many schools schedule visits to the bezoek aan de Westhoek als een deel van de geschie- Westhoek as part of the educational programmes denislessen en/of maatschappijleer en/of vredesop- they run on history, social studies and/or peace voeding. Twee workshops voor educatieve touropera- studies. Two workshops for educational tour oper- toren uit UK, Ierland en Australië garanderen dat de ators from the UK, Ireland and Australia guarantee / Memorial Museum Passchendaele, 1917, Zonnebeke vraag en het aanbod op dit vlak zo goed als mogelijk that supply and demand in this sector will remain op mekaar afgestemd blijven. Een samenwerking tus- more or less harmonised. A collaboration between sen Peace Village, Westtoer en Toerisme Vlaanderen. Peace Village, Westtoer and VISITFLANDERS.

Op ANZAC day 2018 opent de Australische overheid On ANZAC day 2018, the Australian government het Sir John Monash Center in Noord-Frankrijk. Dit opens the Sir John Monash Centre in Northern gloednieuw bezoekerscentrum moet de focus worden France. This brand new visitor centre will be the voor Australiërs die het Westelijk Front bezoeken. Het focus point for Australians visiting the Western Department of Veterans Affairs van Australië vraagt Front. The Department of Veterans Affairs in Aus- aan Toerisme Vlaanderen om zowel een persreis bij de tralia asks VISITFLANDERS to organise a press visit opening als een trade-trip later op het jaar te organi- for the opening as well as a trade trip later in the seren. year.

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De laatste digitale actie tijdens ‘100 Jaar Groote Oorlog’ The last digital activity during the Great War CenCen-- geeft het woord aan de vele mensen in Vlaanderen tenary gives the floorfl oor to the many people in FlanFlan-- die de herdenking voeden en mogelijk maken: archeoarcheo-- ders who support and facilitate the commemoracommemora-- logen, onderzoekers, de klaroenblazers van TheThe LastLast tion: archaeologists, researchers, those who sound Post, het personeel van de CWGC, vrijwilligers,… Ze The Last Post, the staff of the CWGC, volunteers, maken duidelijk dat zij ook na 2018 hun engagement and so on. They make it clear that their engageengage-- verder zetten. De herdenking stopt niet, het is ‘Never ment will continue after 2018. The commemoration the last Last Post’… will not end, it is ‘Never the last Last Post’…

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De laatste digitale actie tijdens ‘100 Jaar Groote Oorlog’ The last digital activity during the Great War Cen- geeft het woord aan de vele mensen in Vlaanderen tenary gives the fl oor to the many people in Flan- die de herdenking voeden en mogelijk maken: archeo- ders who support and facilitate the commemora- logen, onderzoekers, de klaroenblazers van The Last tion: archaeologists, researchers, those who sound Post, het personeel van de CWGC, vrijwilligers,… Ze The Last Post, the staff of the CWGC, volunteers, maken duidelijk dat zij ook na 2018 hun engagement and so on. They make it clear that their engage- verder zetten. De herdenking stopt niet, het is ‘Never ment will continue after 2018. The commemoration the last Last Post’… will not end, it is ‘Never the last Last Post’…

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