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Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate

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Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate

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Location: Ypres, Ieper, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

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April 13, 2022

This is one of the smaller cemeteries for the victims of the First World War in Ypres and the surrounding area, but it is no less moving.

What you will surely notice, no matter what size they are: You will always find (artificial) poppies in the cemeteries. What's it all about? On May 3, 1915, in Ypres, a Canadian officer wrote down the first words of a now famous poem: “In Flanders fields the poppies blow”.

John McCrae's poem isn't the only connection between the poppy and war. Poppies grow on rubble and in places where the ground has been moved frequently. The battlefields of Flanders are one big heap of war-torn soil, ripped apart by thousands of shells. This allowed the seeds to germinate. The profusion of red poppies on the battlefields of Flanders - often the only fleck of color in a sad landscape of ruins, mud and bomb craters - has to do with war.

With its deep red color like the copious blood spilled by soldiers and a black heart like a gunshot wound, the poppy became a symbol of commemoration of the First World War.

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Viviane

December 4, 2023

A place to pause for a moment

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

September 17, 2022

Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate located at the Lille Gate is one of the most beautifully situated cemeteries on the Western Front.

The cemetery is located on top of the old fortress walls, under which were shelters from incoming fire.

From October 1914 to the summer of 1918, Ypres was the center of the salient (Sailent) that was in the hands of the Commonwealth troops during the course of the war (in the early period the French also had control over Ypres). From April 1915 the city was bombed and completely destroyed. The cemetery was established by the French in November 1914 and used intermittently by Commonwealth forces from February 1915 to April 1918.

The French graves were removed after the war. Initially, many more dead were buried on the fortresses, but these were transferred to other cemeteries after the war. Only the 198 at Ramparts Cemetery remained, including 10 unidentified.

Did you know that the 14 New Zealand soldiers buried at Ramparts were Maoris?

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Location: Ypres, Ieper, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate

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