85333 The Yser Towers (Dutch: IJzertoren) are a monument complex near the Yser river at Diksmuide, West Flanders in Belgium. The first tower was built...
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The Yser (US: /iːˈzɛər/ ee-ZAIR, French: [izɛʁ]; Dutch: IJzer [ˈɛizər] ) is a river that rises in French Flanders (the north of France), enters the Belgian...
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experience mustard gas odour gas. The Yser Tower is also the scene of the yearly IJzerbedevaart (Dutch for 'Pilgrimage of the Yser'), a celebration of peace and...
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brothers were symbolically reburied at the Yser Towers (IJzertoren) in 1932 and was an important part of the annual Yser Pilgrimage (IJzerbedevaart). [1] Belgian...
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Nieuwpoort and the sculpture group of the Van Raemdonck brothers on the Yser Towers in Diksmuide. Aubroeck was born in Temse on 28 August 1884. He received...
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The Yser Pilgrimage (Dutch: IJzerbedevaart) is an annual gathering at the Yser Tower (IJzertoren) in Diksmuide, West Flanders in Belgium. This pilgrimage...
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Christian Workers founded by Joseph Cardijn 20th-century cookbooks The Yser Towers World War II The deportation of Jews from Belgium during the Holocaust...
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Belgium in World War I (section Yser Front)
organizations during the yearly Yser pilgrimage and "Wake of the Yser" in Diksmuide at the monument of The Yser tower. British veterans and civilians...
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Commonwealth-German military cemetery: Saint-Symphorien Crypt of the Yser tower Fort of Loncin French military cemetery: l’Orée de la Forêt French military...
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attractions include the Belgian coast, the historic center of Bruges, the Yser Tower in Diksmuide and Flanders Fields, the World War I battlefields around...
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Fransmansmuseum in Koekelare Vladslo German war cemetery Yser Tower, memorial for the soldiers killed on the Yser Front during World War I Dodengang, World War I...
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by Flemish organizations during the yearly Yser pilgrimage in Diksmuide at the monument of the Yser Tower. During the interbellum and World War II, several...
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town of Diksmuide, in the Belgian province of West Flanders. Located on the Yser river, until 1970 it was an independent municipality and then merged and...
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by Flemish organizations during the yearly Yser pilgrimage in Diksmuide at the monument of the Yser Tower. During the interbellum and World War II, several...
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his corpse was placed in the crypt of the IJzertoren (the Yser Tower, named after the River Yser) in Diksmuide. Through his friend Samuel De Vriendt [nl]...
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one French-German military cemetery, one Canadian monument, one Irish monument, the crypt of the Yser tower, the Fort of Loncin and two military plots....
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monuments and memorials in this sector which celebrate the Battle of the Yser and other events. These include – The Ypres Salient was the site of five...
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servicemen. After the war this aim was realised with the building of the Yser Tower memorial, with Verschaeve ceremonially laying the first stone on 7 July...
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the painting for more than 10 years. It was donated to the IJzertoren (Yser Tower) where it is kept in the museum. Name variations: Hendrik Jan Luyten,...
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(1923) Member of the jury of the competition for the construction of the Yser Tower (1925) Knight in the Order of Leopold (Belgium 1898) Officier de l'Instruction...
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included The Flag, A Flemish Village, the Flemish memorial Ijzertoren (Yser Tower), a portrait of the Flemish writer Ernest Claes entitled A Flemish Intellectual...
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Veurne was located within the Yser pocket of Belgian resistance against the German troops. During the Battle of the Yser, the Veurne city hall became the...
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Brussels was Allée Verte/Groendreef railway station near the site of today's Yser/IJzer metro station, north of the City of Brussels. It was from there that...
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that his health now allows him to return to Belgium.: 861 15 June – Yser Tower dynamited.: 861 16 June – Prime Minister proffers his resignation over...
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sent to United Kingdom while King Albert I remained in Belgium behind the Yser Front. In 1915 Prince Charles began attending Wixenford School in Wokingham...
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rail services Eurostar (including the former Thalys) and TGV. The South Tower, the tallest building in Belgium, stands in front of the station's main...
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defence of western Belgium and the French Channel ports, at the Battle of the Yser. When the German offensive failed, Falkenhayn ordered the capture of Ypres...
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October 1914 during a German attack on Belgian defences in the Battle of the Yser; she also served as the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, Dover Patrol...
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check on a Canadian Battery who had positioned themselves on the bank of the Yser Canal near St. Julien close to the France-Belgium border. They had only gone...
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First World War Mœuvres Samuel Meekosha British Army 1915 First World War Yser Edward Noel Mellish British Army 1916 First World War Saint-Éloi Teignmouth...
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