The Ypres Salient Battles
Five Day Itinerary
Items in Red are Must Sees
Items in Blue are Possibles, as time allows
Itineraries can be created Collaboratively
Day One – Behind the Lines
Depart Lille, France or Poperinge, Belgium – 9 a.m.
Oudezele
Kemmel
Poperinge
- Talbot House and Museum
Shot at Dawn
Dozinghem Cemetery
Lijsenthoek Cemetery
Day Two – 2nd Battle of Ypres, April 22 to May 9, 1915
Vlamertinge
- Church and Cemetery
Essex Farm
- walk on the dyke to In Flanders Fields site
Yorkshire Trench
Kitcheners Wood
Mouse Trap Farm
Frezenberg and PPCLI Memorial
The Brooding Soldier, St.Julien
Menin Gate – The Last Post 8 pm
Day Three – Hooge, St.Eloi Craters and Hill 62, 1915 & 1916
Hooge
- Hooge Museum
St.Eloi Craters
Zillebeke Lake
Sanctuary Wood
- Museum
Hill 62
Maple Copse Cemetery
Day Four – Passchendaele/3rd Battle of Ypres – July 31 to November 10, 1917
Walk up Passchendaele Ridge from Varlet Farm
- in the footsteps of the Canadian Corps
Passchendaele Museum
Tyne Cot Cemetery
Day Five – Around the Salient
In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres
- up to the top of the bell tower
Houthulst Forest
Poelcapelle Old British Cemetery
Guynamer Memorial
Dixmuide
- De Dodengang (Trench of Death)
Vladlso German Cemetery
Steenstraat
Menin Gate, The Last Post 8 pm
