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News from Ypres 25

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[This regular item by Dr Dominiek Dendooven, researcher and curator at the In Flanders Fields Museum, detailing recent and forthcoming events around Ypres was first published in the August edition of Bulletin, the in-house member magazine of The Western Front Association. It is sent to members three times a year]. It is the 25th time I have h...

Childhood memories of Gallipoli in the 1920s

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The passion of members of the Western Front Association is such that few fail to recognise an important historic account when they come across one – and thanks to member Edward Lever, a rare first-hand account and photographs of early commemorative work and commemoration at Gallipoli would be recorded for posterity. As part of our ongoing explor...

Polygon Wood ANZAC Day Commemoration Ceremony 108th Anniversary

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Details from the Australian Embassy in Brussels. The program includes a dawn service at Buttes, New British Cemetery and commemorative services at Menin Gate and Toronto Avenue Cemetery. It has accompanying notes and weblinks, and includes commemorations jointly held with the New Zealand Embassy in Brussels. You will be able to follow the Anzac...

ANZAC Day at Brandwood End Cemetery with The Gallipoli Association

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The 25th April is known in many countries as ANZAC Day. Events are held in Australia, New Zealand, the U. K., Ireland and many other countries to honour those who served in the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War. Many of those who served made the ultimate sacrifice. Join us to commemorate Gallipoli/ANZAC Day in the ‘second City’ at Brand...

ANZAC Day Dawn Service 2025: Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux

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This moving service will take place at the Australian National Memorial, France at 5.30am on Friday 25th April 2025. This year’s ceremony marks the 107th Anniversary of the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, when Australian Troops finally captured the town after fierce fighting. This action represents the high-water mark of the German Spring O...

ANZAC Day Dawn Service 2025: Polygon Wood

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The municipality of Zonnebeke, the Passchendaele Museum and the Passchendaele Society 1917 will be holding a dawn service to commemorate ANZAC Day at the Buttes, New British Cemetery at 6am on Friday 25th April 2025. The cemetery is in Polygon Wood, south of Zonnebeke, where 2,108 Commonwealth soldiers are either buried or commemorated including...

ANZAC DAY 2025

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A small but stalwart band travelled from around our county to commemorate ANZAC Day at the Dominions Plot in Cambridge City Cemetery at dawn yesterday morning, 25th April. They were unexpectedly joined by Matt, a young Australian from Sydney who is about to start studies at the University. He was warmly welcomed and we listened as he told us tha...