31 Jul '17
Photo of the week: 100 years on
Summary
See this week's best photo as chosen by the editors at Flanders Today
Lights up
Stories from the Battle of Passchendaele were projected on the facade of the Cloth Hall in Ypres on Sunday evening as part of a special show to commemorate the conflict’s centennial. The battle took place between 31 July and 10 November 2024 and cost the lives of nearly half a million soldiers.
Photo: Benoit Doppagne/BELGA
First World War
Claiming the lives of more than nine million people and destroying entire cities and villages in Europe, the Great War was one of the most dramatic armed conflicts in human history. It lasted from 1914 to 1918.
Flanders Field - For four years, a tiny corner of Flanders known as the Westhoek became one of the war’s major battlefields.
Untouched - Poperinge, near Ypres, was one of the few towns in Flanders that remained unoccupied for most of the war.
Cemetery - The Tyne Cot graveyard in Passchendaele is the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the world.
550 000
lives lost in West Flanders
368 000
annual visitors to the Westhoek
1 914
First Battle of Ypres
- The Great War in Flanders Field
- The Great War Centenary
- First World War Centenary
