WEST-VLAANDEREN

POELKAPELLE

Tank Memorial Ypres Salient
 

 

 


Ligging: Kruising Langemarkstraat, Houthulstseweg, Brugseweg en Wallemolenstraat.

GPS-coördinaten: +50°55'03.56", +2°57'23.69"

Opschriften

"TANK MEMORIAL YPRES SALIENT

IN HONOUR OF THE WW I TANK CORPS AND FORMER HEAVY BRANCH MACHINE GUN CORPS
TANK SOLDIERS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES WITHIN THE INFAMOUS YPRES SALIENT DURING WW I
AND ARE COMMEMORATED BY THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION IN BELGIUM

THESE GALLANT MEN FOUGHT AN EQUALLY BRAVE RESILIENT AND DETERMINED ENEMY
AS WELL AS THE QUAGMIRE OF THE BATTLEFIELD ITSELF

BY THE CONCLUSION OF 1917 THE YPRES SALIENT HAD ACQUIRED A NEW NAME

THE CEMETERY OF THE TANKS

ALSO COMMEMORATED IS A SINGLE WW II ROYAL TANK REGIMENT SOLDIER BURIED NEARBY

FROM MUD THROUGH BLOOD TO THE GREEN FIELDS BEYOND"

Bijkomende informatie : Zie scans hieronder

Er staan geen namen van oorlogsslachtoffers op het monument
 

 







In de achtergrond, het GUYNEMER monument, als eerbetoon aan de Franse piloot Georges GUYNEMER























Foto's : Bron [202], augustus 2018