The Trench of Death on the Yser Front in Dixmuide is the only preserved Belgian trench complex from the First World War.
More than a hundred years ago, on May 12, 1917, the biplane of Count Paul de Goussencourt and Lieutenant de Cubber thundered from the sky during a firefight above Kaaskerke, a small town part of Diksmuide. Both died instantly.
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