The German war cemetery of Langemark is near the village of Langemark, part of the municipality of Langemark-Poelkapelle, in the Belgian province of West Flanders. More than 44,000 soldiers are buried
This mass grave contains 24,917 soldiers of whom 7,977 remain unknown. The names of those known are on the surrounding upright basalt blocks.
This wreath marks the largest mass grave.
Individual marker of four unknown soldiers.
One wall listing the names of the 3,000 German students killed during the First Battle of Ypres, inside the entrance block.
First Battle of Ypres
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The First Battle of Ypres was a battle of the First World War, fought on the Western Front around Ypres, in West Flanders, Belgium. The battle was part of the First Battle of Flanders, in which German
Langemark German war cemetery
…attacks by the Imperial German Army in the Western Front (see trench map), marking the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915. During the First Battle of Ypres (1914) in World War I, poorly trained and inexperienced German infantrymen suffered severe casualties when they made a futile frontal attack on allied…
Fanciful painting of the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Nonne Bosschen, defeating the Prussian Guard, 1914 (William Wollen)
Langemark, October 1914
After the First Battle of Ypres, trenches stretched from Switzerland to the Belgian coast
German soldiers in a trench at Ypres, December 1914