Visit to Ypres

Some of the most influential or poignant poems of the day.

http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/welcome.htm and

http://www.worldwar1.com/heritage/hfcorner.htm

Hell-fire corner

http://www.hinchbk.cambs.sch.uk/btl/btlembark.html

Hinchingbrooke School pupils and staff visit the battlefields, and the result is a remarkable site that uses students' own photographs and diaries to provide a "virtual tour" for those unable to visit themselves.

This site impresses, perhaps more than any other, the horrors of war, and the pupils' comments are thought-provoking and sensitive.

http://www.thefrontline.free-online.co.uk/historyman/TW/TW10a.html

Every day life in the trenches.

http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/menin.htm

An interesting account of the Menin Gate, where a ceremony is held each evening.

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/westfront/ypsalient/meningate/lastpost.htm

Here you can listen to the Last Post being played at the Menin Gate

http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/welcome.htm

Tom Morgan hosts a huge site relating to Hellfire Corner, which is very near the town of Ypres. There, it is said, a remarkable truce took place on Christmas Day in 1914, which culminated in an exchange of gifts between the Germans and the British, the singing of carols, and even a game of football. Several tales of this exist; at the time of writing I am not entirely clear whether this was a real event or not.
If indeed it was real, the following day it was war again - business as usual.

http://www.hellfire-corner.demon.co.uk/holman.htm

"I have seen sights which no man should ever see, sights which stay firmly in your mind for the rest of your life. Vivid images of my mates and comrades-in-arms, lying face down in the trenches with scores of rats scavenging their exposed flesh. I can see it as if it were yesterday, men clambering over the bodies to get out of the line of fire, limbs and torso entwined. Shell-shocked men wallowing in the blood-soaked mire they called home."

Interviewed in June 2000, Private 41946 Charles Victor Holman was 102 then.

http://www.inflandersfields.be/english/eng-index.html

The Museum in Ypres. Well worth visiting.

http://www.btinternet.com/~james.fanning/fallenheroes/index.html

An impressive site by the History Department at Tideway Community School.

http://www.btinternet.com/%7ejames.fanning/webneo/index.html

This site, produced by two 14 year olds, received a commendation in a national awards scheme (see HERE)

http://www.chem.kuleuven.ac.be/~bruno/Ypres/virtueel.html

Those who have visited the Menin Gate may be intrigued by a "virtual visit" of the monument. You will need Quicktime for this.

http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/comment/haig-debate.html

Here various views about the war, and especially Haig's role, are discussed.

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=collections/chorus

You can hear some of the popular war songs here.