Yser Frontline &
Yser Salient Tour in May 2014
Saturday
3rd, Sunday 4th and Monday 5th May 2014
Chris
Yates regularly tours in his RV8 in the UK and on Mainland Europe and has highlighted
a tour being organised by the MG Car Club Belgium in the Ypres area of Belgium
as part of the WW1 commemoration.
Posted: 140109
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the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, the MG Car
Club Belgium is organising an International Commemoration Weekend. The tour of
remembrance will visit the “Westhoek”, a pivotal scene where during
World War I a fierce battle was fought along the Yser and the hills around Ypres.
Particularly the flooding of the low-lying Yser plain, from the lock complex in
Nieuwpoort, made sure any further movement of the occupier in the Belgian sector
of the front was paralysed for 4 more years. As Nieuwpoort clearly had a strategic
role in determining the course of WWI the organisers of the tour have decided
to start the commemoration weekend there.
Full details of the tour programme
and how to book are available in a comprehensive briefing paper prepared by MG
Car Club Belgium. More
Contact
Chris Yates by email f you wish to discuss
the event.
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