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WWI Battlefields - Ypres salient - Essex Farm Advanced dressing station and cemetery, Flanders, Belgium
Essex Farm was one of the key frontline spots in the Ypres salient during th e first world war. It housed an advanced dressing station where casualties were first treated when they were brought from the frontline by stretcher bearers. It was dug into the banks of the Ypres-Yzer Canal which was the frontline held by British and Canadian forces.
Nowadays the site is dominated by the Essex Farm cemetery, a World War I, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground. There are 1,204 dead commemorated, of which 104 are unidentified. It's one of dozens of Commonwealth cemeteries in the Ypres salient.
John McCrae
Essex farm cemetery also houses the John McCrae memorial site. McCrae was a lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian army who worked as a surgeon in the advanced dressing station. A larger -then-life figure he was well known by all the troops in the surrounding areas and far beyond.
His unshattered optimism and skills as a docter made him a very popular man. In his limited time off he would be seen behind the lines riding his horse Bonfire with his dog Bonhomme following. He was a poet and a great storyteller and wrote letters for his nephews and nieces in Canada from the perspective of Bonfire, signed with his hoof!
He witnessed the aftermaths of one of the first gas attacks in Flanders in 1915 and when one of his best friends in the army was killed he wrote a poem the day after that still resonates to this day. It's called "In Flanders Fields".
McCrae fell ill later in the war and died of pneumonia in january 1918. So loved he was that his funeral was a big event even in wartorn Flanders with many troops present and a procession lead by Bonfire.
On the photo:
Esses Farm Commonwealth war cemetery. Shot with a Leica Q, augustus 2022. Note that some of the graves are grouped together. This happens when the men were found together.
WWI Battlefields - Ypres salient - Essex Farm Advanced dressing station and cemetery, Flanders, Belgium
Essex Farm was one of the key frontline spots in the Ypres salient during th e first world war. It housed an advanced dressing station where casualties were first treated when they were brought from the frontline by stretcher bearers. It was dug into the banks of the Ypres-Yzer Canal which was the frontline held by British and Canadian forces.
Nowadays the site is dominated by the Essex Farm cemetery, a World War I, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground. There are 1,204 dead commemorated, of which 104 are unidentified. It's one of dozens of Commonwealth cemeteries in the Ypres salient.
John MCrae
Essex farm cemetery also houses the John McCrae memorial site. McCCrae was a lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian army who worked as a surgeon in the advanced dressing station. A larger -then-life figure he was well known by all the troops in the surrounding areas and far beyond.
His unshattered optimism and skills as a docter made him a very popular man. In his limited time off he would be seen behind the lines riding his horse Bonfire with his dog Bonhomme following. He was a poet and a great storyteller and wrote letters for his nephews and nieces in Canada from the perspective of Bonfire, signed with his hoof!
He witnessed the aftermaths of one of the first gas attacks in Flanders in 1915 and when one of his best friends in the army was killed he wrote a poem the day after that still resonates to this day. It's called "In Flanders Fields".
McCrae fell ill later in the war and died of pneumonia in january 1918. So loved he was that his funeral was a big event even in wartorn Flanders with many troops present and a procession lead by Bonfire.
On the photo:
Advanced dressing station at Essex Farm, augustus 2022. Tonemapped using three handheld shots with a Leica Q.
WWI Battlefields - Ypres salient - Essex Farm Advanced dressing station and cemetery, Flanders, Belgium
Essex Farm was one of the key frontline spots in the Ypres salient during th e first world war. It housed an advanced dressing station where casualties were first treated when they were brought from the frontline by stretcher bearers. It was dug into the banks of the Ypres-Yzer Canal which was the frontline held by British and Canadian forces.
Nowadays the site is dominated by the Essex Farm cemetery, a World War I, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground. There are 1,204 dead commemorated, of which 104 are unidentified. It's one of dozens of Commonwealth cemeteries in the Ypres salient.
John MCrae
Essex farm cemetery also houses the John McCrae memorial site. McCrae was a lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian army who worked as a surgeon in the advanced dressing station. A larger -then-life figure he was well known by all the troops in the surrounding areas and far beyond.
His unshattered optimism and skills as a docter made him a very popular man. In his limited time off he would be seen behind the lines riding his horse Bonfire with his dog Bonhomme following. He was a poet and a great storyteller and wrote letters for his nephews and nieces in Canada from the perspective of Bonfire, signed with his hoof!
He witnessed the aftermaths of one of the first gas attacks in Flanders in 1915 and when one of his best friends in the army was killed he wrote a poem the day after that still resonates to this day. It's called "In Flanders Fields".
McCrae fell ill later in the war and died of pneumonia in january 1918. So loved he was that his funeral was a big event even in wartorn Flanders with many troops present and a procession lead by Bonfire.
On the photo:
Advanced dressing station at Essex Farm. Shot with a Leica Q, augustus 2022.
WWI Battlefields - Ypres salient - Essex Farm Advanced dressing station and cemetery, Flanders, Belgium
Essex Farm was one of the key frontline spots in the Ypres salient during th e first world war. It housed an advanced dressing station where casualties were first treated when they were brought from the frontline by stretcher bearers. It was dug into the banks of the Ypres-Yzer Canal which was the frontline held by British and Canadian forces.
Nowadays the site is dominated by the Essex Farm cemetery, a World War I, Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground. There are 1,204 dead commemorated, of which 104 are unidentified. It's one of dozens of Commonwealth cemeteries in the Ypres salient.
John MCrae
Essex farm cemetery also houses the John McCrae memorial site. McCCrae was a lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian army who worked as a surgeon in the advanced dressing station. A larger -then-life figure he was well known by all the troops in the surrounding areas and far beyond.
His unshattered optimism and skills as a docter made him a very popular man. In his limited time off he would be seen behind the lines riding his horse Bonfire with his dog Bonhomme following. He was a poet and a great storyteller and wrote letters for his nephews and nieces in Canada from the perspective of Bonfire, signed with his hoof!
He witnessed the aftermaths of one of the first gas attacks in Flanders in 1915 and when one of his best friends in the army was killed he wrote a poem the day after that still resonates to this day. It's called "In Flanders Fields".
McCrae fell ill later in the war and died of pneumonia in january 1918. So loved he was that his funeral was a big event even in wartorn Flanders with many troops present and a procession lead by Bonfire.
On the photo:
John McCrae memorial, Exssex Farm cemetery. Shot with a Leica Q, augustus 2022.
Europe_2016_Western_Front_: Taken on 18/9/16 using LEICA M (Typ 240) and a Elmarit-M 1:2.8/28 ASPH. lens.
Europe_2016_Western_Front_: Taken on 18/9/16 using LEICA M (Typ 240) and a Elmarit-M 1:2.8/28 ASPH. lens.
Europe_2016_Western_Front_: Taken on 18/9/16 using LEICA M (Typ 240) and a Elmarit-M 1:2.8/28 ASPH. lens.
Joe Strudwick was 15-years-old when he was killed instantly by a German shell near Ypres in Belgium in 1916.
His grave is among more than a thousand at Essex Farm Cemetery on the outskirts of Ypres.
Essex Farm Cemetery
Ypres Salient, Belgium
In Flanders Fields
By John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Location that John McCrae wrote, "In Flanders Fields"
Ypres Salient, Belgium
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