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Fire stations around the world held a minute’s silence on Thursday at 20.00 Belgian time, to mark the 30,000th Last Post ceremony taking place at that moment under the Menin Gate in Ypres.
Koen Verlaeckt, secretary-general of the Flanders Department of Foreign Affairs, is traveling to the Canadian capital of Ottawa for the 3 May unveiling of a statue in honour of the Canadian doctor
Flanders’ minister-president Geert Bourgeois is in Ypres today for the commemoration of an event that turned the course of the First World War exactly 100 years ago: the first large-scale poison g
The province of West Flanders has announced details of Woordfront, the second of its First World War public commemoration events.
One hundred years ago this Christmas, a day of fraternity in Flanders’ fields passed into fable.
A memorial to the First World War Christmas truce has been unveiled in Belgium, nearly a full century after the day the guns fell silent over the trenches.
In Ypres yesterday, a special edition of the daily Last Post ceremony was held to mark the 96th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Representatives of 83 countries, including German chancellor Angela Merkel and former Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, gathered in Nieuwpoort, West Flanders, yesterday to commemorate the fallen o
Ten thousand volunteers carried lit torches over a distance of 84 kilometres on Friday, marking what once was a frontier of destruction.
