Zonnebeke
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Zonnebeke is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the villages of Beselare, Gheluvelt, Passendale, Zandvoorde and Zonnebeke proper. On January 1,
Zonnebeke town hall
Destruction of Zonnebeke, 1918
Zonnebeke Church Dugout constructed by 171st Tunnelling Company in 1918 (model)
The Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917
Tyne Cot
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Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery and Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of World War I in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. It is
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…a farmer's wife disappeared into the ground while washing the windows. Beecham dugout was subsequently discovered less than 400 metres (1,300 ft) from Tyne Cot Cemetery. It was made public in spring 2006 that the brickworks had received a licence for the extension of its blue-clay extraction zone. The Association for…
Tyne Cot Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery
Pill box of Flandern I Stellung in the grounds of Tyne Cot
The inscription on the cross built upon the largest of the three pillboxes reads: THIS WAS THE TYNE COT BLOCKHOUSE CAPTURED BY THE 3RD AUSTRALIAN DIVISION 4 October 1917 It originally read "2nd Division" until corrected in the 1990s.
The walls forming the memorial in the background, with one of the rotundas