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British: Voormezeele, Wittenhuisstraat

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  • Feb 22, 2023
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Updated: 2 days ago

Located next to the farm on the Wittenhuisstraat road is a British bunker showing signs of damage from artillery fire.


Dugouts and Bunkers, Ypres Salient, Ieper, Voormezeele, WW1, Flanders
British bunker showing damage from artillery fire. Authors image

This British bunker is on the frontline as it was in April 1918 and the Germans had taken the bunker and set up a machine gun position here. It was retaken by the US 119 Infantry Regiment on 31 August 1918.


Dugouts and Bunkers, Ypres Salient, Ieper, Voormezeele, WW1, Flanders
View of the bunker. Authors image

Dugouts and Bunkers, Ypres Salient, Ieper, Voormezeele, WW1, Flanders
Trench Map with the bunker highlighted

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