Battle of Kemmel Hill 1918 : World War One French Memorial and Ossuary

Flanders Fields place of remembrance : the French Memorial in honour of the soldiers fallen during the battle for  Mont Kemmel (Kemmelberg) in april 1918

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It is as easy to walk down the hill to the Ossuary, but keep in mind the walk back up again. The Ossuary contains the remains of 5 294 soldiers, all but 57 of them unknown. Most of these soldiers fell in that whirlwind attack on 25 April On the left of the obelisk are marked the names of the commanders of the units and on the right the units themselves.

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The French Memorial at Kemmel. She sits next to a steep road in a cup in the trees, standing a fair way up the slopes of the mount on a clutch burning incline. Known as Mont Kemmel, Mount Kemmel or Kemmelburg depending on your nationality, all of them held it a one point or another between 1914 and 1919. It sits in Heuvelland in Western Flanders, not far from the French border below Ypres on the bottom of the Salient.

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Allied soldiers (first British, then French) were an easy target for the German artillery attacking from the top of the hill. The ossuary was built at the end of the war. The various local testimonies of the time show the importance of the number of bodies still left on the ground after the Battle of the Flanders Mountains.

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