Military locations

In early May 1915, Canadian doctor and poet John McCrae wrote the world-famous poem 'In Flanders Fields' from a medical aid station a stone's throw from Ypres.

For army leaders wanting to survey the front line from Messines across Wytschaete to Ypres, the Kemmelberg was the place to be during the First World War. From 1914 to 1917, the British army controlled the strategic hilltop.

The British army ruled Ploegsteert woods throughout World War I, except from April to September 1918, when the German army held Ploegsteert for six months.

The Irish Peace Park in Belgium is next to the Battle of Messines, which started on June 7, 1917.

An eagle atop a 15-meter-high pillar was inaugurated in 1930 and originally commemorated German marines killed aboard a submarine during World War I.

The Laboe Naval Memorial's foundation stone was laid in 1927 at the mouth of the Kieler Fjord in the Baltic Sea. The 72-metre-high tower was finished in 1936.

At the foot of the French side of the Zwarteberg lies a series of bunkers from the Maginot Line, including this example from 1938.

In 1992, a farmer accidentally stumbled upon the remains of a British dugout, a World War I underground shelter.

Once a country house set in lush parkland just outside Ypres, Bedford House was blown to bits during the First World War. The ruins were then used as a field hospital and brigade headquarters, among other things.

During the excavation work for the railway construction between Ypres and Kortrijk in 1854, a sixty-metre-high hill was created.