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Remembrance Day National Ceremony held on the parade ground at the Australian War Memorial, 11 November 2010.
Photograph taken by Kerry Alchin
Order reference: PAIU2010_113.21
Contact: esales@awm.gov.au
The Hooglede German war cemetery (Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof Hooglede in German) is a military cemetery in the Belgian town of Hooglede, six kilometres northwest of Roeselare. It is located at the east side of Hooglede. It contains 8,241 buried German soldiers from World War I.
On October 19, 1914, Hooglede was occupied by German soldiers. The Hooglede cemetery in the Beverenstraat arose in 1917 when the cemetery in Hooglede was no longer sufficient for the mounting deathtoll. There were some new cemeteries, including "Ehrenfriedhof Hooglede Ost Beveren" along the street. After the liberation by the French, approximately 4100 German soldiers were buried in the soil of Hooglede.
The German cemeteries were supervised by the Belgian military service of tombs, but in 1926 all the cemeteries were the responsibility of the Amtlicher Deutscher Gräberdienst. Between 1932 and 1937, this service was responsible for the German cemetery in the Beverenstraat. Many graves in various cemeteries in Hooglede, Gits, Handzame, Torhout, and Lichtervelde were sent to Hooglede. The graves then were marked by crosses.
In 1937, a chapel was built using stones from a German pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris. During World War II, an addition 29 German soldiers were buried at the cemetery. These soldiers were later sent to another cemetery.
After the Second World War, the supervision of the cemetery was again in the hands of the Belgian organization "Nos Tombs". Not much later, in 1954, the monitoring was taken over by the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge in German).
Numerous German graves dispersed over the country were transferred between 1956 and 1958 from 128 cemeteries to the four cemeteries in the Flemish part of Belgium. Hooglede is one of the four main German cemeteries in Belgium. The others being in Langemark, Vladslo, Menen.
During the renovation works in Hooglede in 1957-58, the entrance arches of the chapel were reduced to nine. This change came in two phases. The crosses were also replaced by nameplates. After 1960, no more major works were performed.
I assumed this was a First World War memorial, but it turns out it's for the
Boer War.
Stephen Fry, on last nights "Who Do You Think You Are?" said when his
great-grandfather was a boy in Slovakia (?), he used to play Englishmen & Boers
rather than Cowboys & Indians, and he was always an Englishman!
The flare from the street light was unplanned!
I'm fairly sure this was the workhouse in Stourbridge, used as an annexe for war wounded in the First World War. The chap in the bed seems to have trench foot. The beds would not normally have been that crowded, but bought together for the photograph.
The first excursion of the tour was to the American War Cemetery in Margraten, Holland. It was interesting to see the memorials, there were around 8000 crosses here.
War memorial worldwar 1 and Worldwar 2
Rethel is a French commune, located southwest of the department of the Ardennes, in the region Alsace- Lorraine - Champagne -Ardenne .
Its inhabitants are called the Rethélois .
Sub- Prefecture of the Ardennes watered by the Aisne , it is the third most important city of this department . Located on the northern edge of Champagne and 37 km from Reims , near the Ardennes , it has a train station that instead 1 hour 10 of Paris . Indeed , the town of Rethel is the third economic pole of the Ardennes .
Around Frankfurt, there's heaps of cold war relicts. helipads, rocket batteries or, like this, an old tank training ground. I'm not sure if, in retrospect, that all should have made me feel safe or worried...
It was about -20C when I took this picture, but nothing was going to stop me from trying out my new Christmas present!
Despues de haber sido solo un simple rumo, hoy es que Sega ha confirmado oficialmente el desarrollo de Total War: Warhammer.
El juego está siendo creado por el estudio The Creative Assembly (Alien Isolation, Total War: Rome) en colaboración con Games Workshop, los responsables del popular juego ...
The war in Ukraine is devastating communities and threatening the lives of millions. UNDP teams have been on the ground throughout this crisis, helping to save lives and support relief efforts, but the needs are rapidly increasing.
Based on three decades of trusted partnership with the Government of Ukraine, UNDP has been working with municipalities, civil society organizations, and business associations across the country. Now, leveraging this extensive network and working as part of the coordinated UN response, we have scaled up support to the people of Ukraine. We’re focusing on immediate crisis response, maintaining core government functions and laying the groundwork for early recovery. We are also supporting emergency relief in neighbouring countries, ensuring a strong focus on resilience and development for the millions of displaced people who have fled the violence.
Photo: UNDP Ukraine