The heavy winter rains began to fall and "the rifle was substituted by the spade". In the meantime there were to be some major distractions in 1916, at Arras. The German attacks were held but at a great loss of life. Prior to the attack, the hill had been undermined with five galleries being driven under the German positions.In the Ypres Salient battlefields there are approximately 90,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers whose remains could not be identified for burial in a grave marked with their name. He also designed several Underground Stations, including that at Sudbury Town station, Chiswick Park station and Arnos Grove stationChalton Bradshaw and Leward had worked together on the Guard's Division Memorial. on the Somme and at Verdun. From the 45th Algerian up to the "Berlin Wood" near Gravenstafel the line was held by the Canadian 1st Division and from Berlin Wood the line was held by three British Divisions, the 5th, 27th and 28th. Langemarck and Poelkapelle were taken by the Belgian 9th Infantry Division, Passchendaele taken by Belgian Karabiniers and Grenadiers (6th and 12th Infantry Division), Zonnebeke and Broodseinde taken by the 17th Belgian Linie, Beselare by Scots from the British 29th Division and Geluveldt by troops of the Worcestershire Regiment, also part of the British 29th Division. During this battle the British conceded the ground they had conquered in the 3rd Battle of Ypres, including the Passchendaele salient. Published by Constable of London in association with the Imperial War Museum. (Almost) all war cemeteries and memorials in Belgium. Both had seen action with the British Army in the 1914-1918 war, Chalton Bradshaw on the Western Front and in Italy and Ledward in Italy. Photographs of Cemeteries, Churchyards and Memorials located in TurkeyPhotographs of Cemeteries, Churchyards and Memorials located in BelgiumPhotographs of Cemeteries, Churchyards and Memorials located throughout the worldA list of all "Shot at Dawns" who are buried or commemorated in Cemeteries or on MemorialsPhotographs of Cemeteries, Churchyards and Memorials located in FrancePoetry and Miscellaneous Articles submitted to us on World War One A list of Victoria Cross Recipients who are buried or commemorated in cemeteries featured on this siteThe casualty numbers for each cemetery are taken from the C. W. G. C. site.
The site has been online since January 2005.
The architect Charles Holden designed Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Buttes New British Cemetery, Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Messines Ridge British Cemetery, Polygon Wood Cemetery and St. Quentin Cabaret Military Cemetery. East of Ypres and about 50 metres N of the road from Potijze to Zonnebeke, reached by a footpath which leads to Potijze Chateau Lawn and Wood cemeteries and then to this cemetery. Similarly, there are also believed to be about 90,000 German soldiers whose remains were never identified as was the case with the remains of many French soldiers found on the battlefields. The Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing south of Messines is technically outside the sector known as the Ypres Salient, and commemorates the missing of the Lys battlefield sector.
At last the war was over but at a terrible cost and no more so than in the Ypres sector. ""IN MEMORIAM OF OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE 1ST AUSTRALIAN TUNNELLING COY WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE MINING AND DEFENSIVE OPERATIONS OF HILL 60 1915-1918 / THIS MONUMENT REPLACES THAT ORIGINALLY ERECTED IN APRIL 1919 BY THEIR COMRADES IN ARMS / 1923"The Queen Victoria's Rifles (QVR) had arrived in Le Havre on 5 November 1914 and were one of the first Territorial battalions to serve in France; they were attached to the 5th Division. "THIS WAS THE TYNE COT BLOCKHOUSE CAPTURED BY THE 3RD AUSTRALIAN DIVISION 4TH OCTOBER 1917""Here are recorded the names of officers and men of NEW ZEALAND who fell in or near Messines in 1917 and 1918 and whose graves are known only to God"Two lions couchant on low plinths on either side of the entrance to the Most villages and towns in West Flanders have their own war memorials, either civil or parochial. There are many monuments and memorials in this sector which celebrate the "Die VIII Augusti MCMXXXVII positus est hic primarius lapis""A LA MEMOIRE DE L'AMIRAL RONARC'H ET DES FUSELIERS MARINS GLORIEUSEMENT TOMBES A DIXMUDE 16 OCT-10 NOV 1914""IL VA DE NOTRE HONNEUR D'AIDER LES BELGES DANS CETTE TACHE JUSQU'A L'EXTREME LIMITE DE NOS MOYENS EN CONSEQUENCE LE PASSAGE DE DIXMUDE DEVRA ETRE TENU PAR VOUS TANT QU'IL RESTERA UN FUSELIER MARIN VIVANT"/ "24 OCT. 1914 - LE GENERAL D'URBAL - L'AMIRAL RONARC'H"The Germans mounted furious attacks and 21 to 23 October 1914 saw the The Germans stepped up their attacks on 31 October 1914 and German cavalry drove the British cavalry from the Messines Ridge and on 11 November, two premier German divisions (The Prussian Guards Division) attempted to break the British lines at Nun's Wood just north of the Menin Road. These can be traced in this website.Moreau-Vauthier's idea was endorsed by Henri Defert, president of the Touring Club of France who invited the Belgian Touring Club to join the project. The fighting had been fierce and the BEF's numbers decimated. As it was perhaps never a really practical idea it was eventually dropped but it does show how emotional people were about the Ypres area in the immediate years after the war had ended. Winston Churchill in particular was a strong advocate of this. From Steenstrate to the North Sea coast the line was held by the Belgian 6th Division, from Steenstrate to north of Langemarck it was held by the French 87th Territorial Division, and from there to the Ypres to Bruges road south of Poelkapelle it was held by the 45th Algerian Division.