metrisch | THE GREAT WAR - "In Flanders Fields" - An impression in VHS (digitalised) shot +/- 1990. @metrisch | Uploaded June 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Amateur video made about 30 years ago in and around the town of Ieper (Ypres), center of the former Flandres battlefield during WWI. Digitalized VHS and it shows in the rather poor quality.
Following sites were visited:
- Menin Gate, Ypres
- Restored Cloth Hall, Ypres
- Site behind Ypres restored St Martin's church where debris of original church is exhibited.
- Passchendaele Memorial.
- Tyne Cot British war cemetry, Passendale.
- St. Juliaan Memorial with Brooding Soldier, site of the first German gas attack.
- German war cemetry, Langemark.
- Unearthed shells near Wijtschate ('White Sheet' for the Tommies).
- German defences at 'Bayernwald' near Wijtschate.
- Wijtschate British war cemetry.
- Spanbroekmolen or Lone tree crater, the result of te largest of the 19 mines exploded by the British in june 1917 near Messines (now Mesen).
- Hill 60. Untouched battlefield now partly reclaimed by nature. The undulations made by the shell craters are still noticeable..
- Daily Last Post ceremony under Menin Gate, Ypres.