News
Media online
The photographic project resulted in a collection of pictures, including all the individual headstones. Those pictures are now online. ...
Building land
The Town of Poperinge bought a building lot situated besides the small road which leads to Remy Farm. ...
Jury appoints architect
Architect Luc Vandewynckel is to design the infrastructure of the Lijssenthoek interpretation centre. A professional jury selected this firm out of five candidates. In his design the architect uses references to the huts and barracks of the former field hospital.
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Research German graves
The Gesamtschule Berger Feld from Gelsenkirchen has set up a research team. During the coming months, four teachers and ten pupils will scrutinize the 212 German graves at Lijssenthoek....
Tribute to the Americans
Each year during Memorial Day weekend, the American Overseas Memorial Day Association (AOMDA) visits the graves of the American soldiers and airmen who are buried outside of the three American military cemeteries in Belgium. There is a ceremony at each grave, involving the placing of American and Belgian flags and flowers on the graves, and the pla...
Samuel Chang in search of his roots
Samuel Chang’s father was an interpreter for the Chinese Labour Corps. It was the first time that Chang had visited the region where his father was active during WW1....
First donation in favour of the visitors’ centre
The Lijssenthoek archives have received their first donation. Brian Dance and his wife Brenda (nee Leggatt) donated a postcard book ‘in memory of Uncle Ernest Albert Leggatt’. Private Leggatt is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery....
