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Flanders, Ypres and the Salient in April 2007


Malte Znaniecki

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22nd of April 2007

Sint Elooi: Exit of the village - the road to Oosttaverne.

Below the site of Sint Elooi from Google Earth.

Crater 2 is to see clearly blue right of the road to Oosttaverne.

The dark green stripe right of crater 2 keeps crater 1 which itself is difficult to find out.

Left of both appears the big crater of June 7th 1917 (in dark blue) between the road to Oosttaverne and the road to Wytschaete.

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22nd of April 2007

Sint Elooi: This small road leads in a light bow around crater ("Trichter") 2.

From here we thought we could access crater 1 and make some photos since the way passes it.

View towards the entrance to Sint Elooi with the road from Oosttaverne.

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22nd of April 2007

Sint Elooi: We found the crater ("Trichter") 1 site but ...

it was private area ...

so no crater photos for Major Spiller ... <_<

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22nd of April 2007

Sint Elooi: But suddenly ... a miracle happened !

The owners of the site appeared and Frans and Ronny asked for permission to taking some snapshots.

And ... we got it ! :D

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22nd of April 2007

Sint Elooi: Crater ("Trichter") 1

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22nd of April 2007

Sint Elooi: Leaving the site of Crater ("Trichter") 1

Major Spiller thought it to be good to take some pics for getting a panorama view from east to west towards the positions of the German frontline until June 7th 1917.

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Sint Elooi: Leaving the site of Crater ("Trichter") 1

Continued panorama view from east to west towards the positions of the German frontline until June 7th 1917.

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Sint Elooi: Leaving the site of Crater ("Trichter") 1

Continued panorama view from east to west towards the positions of the German frontline until June 7th 1917.

Zooming the centre of the last picture we get to a British bunker (built after the capture of the area) remaining from this time.

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Malte, it's actually a British bunker, built after the capture of this ground on 7th June 1917.

Some superb photos!

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22nd of April 2007

Sint Elooi: Leaving the site of Crater ("Trichter") 1

Continued panorama view from east to west towards the positions of the German frontline until June 7th 1917.

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22nd of April 2007

Sint Elooi: Arrived back at the entrance I shot St. Elooi towards the centre of the village

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Sint Elooi: Since this was a CRATER-tour we had to look for more.

This was on the left side of the road ...

Unfortunately this crater only is to access with a key to get in Ypres.

We left it behind us. Unseen ! :(

The picture below shows this crater of June 7th 1917

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22nd of April 2007

Sint Elooi: We left this place to enter the Messines Ridge.

Straight forward the road to Oosttaverne

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22nd of April 2007

We followed the road to Oosttaverne and made our next stop at the Oosttaverne Wood Cemetery

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