Passchendaele Memorial Garden playground and WW1 plane model

Recreation area near the Word War One Passchendaele  Memorial Museum and Garden  in Zonnebeke

Browse the collection : West Flanders Province time lapse and video stock footage

The Passchendaele Memorial Park combines recreation and the experience of nature at its purest with remembrance of the Battle of Passendale.

(Flanders Fields)

The Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 presents the historic story of the First World War in a poignant and vivid way, with a particular emphasis on the Battle of Passchendaele. This battle in 1917 is known as one of the most horrific battles from the First World War, with more than half-a-million casualties for a territorial gain of merely eight kilometres. ‘Passchendaele’ not only became a concept in the history of the First World War, it also became a symbol of the great futility of the violence of war in all its horror.

(Toerism Zonnebeke)

The objective of the battle was to capture the ruins of Passchendaele village. It was a nightmare mission. Torrential rain had turned the ground into a quagmire of thick, stinking mud that swallowed man and machine. Wave after wave of Allied forces were mowed down. Troops were called in from Australia and New Zealand only to perish within days. Passchendaele became known as ‘Passion-dale’ – the valley of suffering.

(Amateur Traveler)