West Flanders
During the excavation work for the railway construction between Ypres and Kortrijk in 1854, a sixty-metre-high hill was created.
Polygoonbos
The Battle of the Polygoon Forest took place in Zonnebeke from September 26 to 27, 1917. Australian and New Zealand soldiers eliminated the German bunkers and fortifications one by one.
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West Flanders
Half hidden underground on a hillside along the First World War battlefield in West Flanders, the German army built a reinforced concrete command post bunker.
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