Sint-Elooi
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Sint-Elooi is a small village, about 5 km (3.1 mi) south of Ypres in the Flemish province of West Flanders in Belgium. The former municipality is now part of Ypres. Though Sint-Elooi is the Dutch and only official name, the village's French name, St. Eloi, is most commonly used in English due to its role in World War I. The village and the nearby locations of Voormezele and Hollebeke were merged into Zillebeke in 1970 and into Ypres in 1976.
Royal Garrison Artillery gunners outside a shelter at St Eloi, 11 August 1917
British officers in a captured German armoured observation post on a ruined house in St Eloi, 11 August 1917
St. Eloi, 11 August 1917. A shell is bursting in the background
Sappers at Work: A Canadian Tunnelling Company, Hill 60, St Eloi by David Bomberg
Hooge in World War I
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In World War I, the area around Hooge on Bellewaerde Ridge, about 2.5 mi (4 km) east of Ypres in Flanders in Belgium, was one of the easternmost sectors of the Ypres Salient and was the site of much fighting between German and Allied forces.
German flamethrowers during the First World War on the Western Front, 1917
Soldiers of the 10th Field Artillery Brigade of the 4th Australian Division passing through Château Wood, near Hooge, 29 October 1917.
View of Hooge from the south, with Hooge Crater Cemetery clearly visible
Hooge Crater Cemetery entrance with Cross of Sacrifice and the stone-faced circle designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in memory of the many craters nearby