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Remembrance - Boezinge - 11/11/2007
De Vrienden van het In Flanders Fields Museum hielden een
'remembrance' voor de Scots Guardsman Private Robert Liddle
Kilgour die op 24-jarige leeftijd sneuvelde op 31 juli 1917,
de eerste dag van de derde slag bij Ieper. Deze remembrance
had plaats in samenwerking met The Leith Concertband uit Leith
nabij Edinburgh. De band verzorgt reeds meerdere jaren de
herdenkingsplechtigheden van 11 november in Vlamertinge (Ieper).
Plaats van het gebeuren: Artillery
Wood Cemetery in Boezinge.
Remembrance to the Scots Guardsman Private Robert Liddle
Kilgour who died on 31 July 1917 by the Friends of the In
Flanders Fields Museum. The remembrance took place on 11 November
2007 at Artillery
Wood Cemetery, Poezelstraat, Boezinge (north of Ieper).
The cemetery was started by the Guards Division after
the Battle of Pilkem Ridge at the end of July 1917. It is
the burying place of the famous Irish poet Lance Corporal
Francis LEDWIDGE (1st Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers), who
died on 31 July 1917 (age 26). A short distance from the cemetery,
a small memorial has been erected in his honour on the former
railway line Ieper-Torhout.
This remembrance was in cooperation with The Leith Concertband
from Leith, near Edinburgh. For a couple of years now, the
band has been performing at the Armistice Day ceremonies at
Vlamertinge (Ieper).
Deze rubriek staat open voor iedereen.
Ook jij kunt foto's doorsturen voor de rubriek "Je was er
bij". Ons adres: info@westhoek.be
Everyone can send pictures for the pages "You were
there". Our address: info@westhoek.be
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