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Exhibits at Hill 62 Trenches Museum, Sanctuary Wood

Hill 62 Trenches museum is on Canadalaan near Ypres (Ieper.) I previously posted on its external exhibits and the trenches on Armistice Day.

The first two here are not typical of German commemoration markers.

German Grave Cross:-

German Grave Cross, Hill 62 Museum

German Gravestone (inscribed Fried Her Lander):-

German Gravestone, Hill 62 Museum

This is in the more usual German commemorative style. German Headstone (inscribed H Langer and F Schrobsdorf):-

German Headstone, Hill 62 Museum

German Wooden Memorial:-

German Wooden Memorial, Hill 62 Museum

Engine Part:-

Aero Engine Part, Hill 62 Museum

Model Tanks and Poilu Bugler:-

Model Tanks and Poilu, Hill 62 Museum

Mortars, Grenade Launchers Etc:-

Mortars, Grenade Launchers Etc

Trench Mortars:-

Trench Mortars etc

Wartime Poster in support of Serbia:-

Wartime Poster, Hill 62 Museum

Memorial tributes:-

Memorial Tributes, Hill 62 Museum

Trench Art Windmill:-

Trench Art Windmill, Hill 62 Museum

Hill 62 Trenches Museum, Sanctuary Wood, Near Ypres

The museum is situated on the Canadalaan off the Menin Road, near Ypres (Ieper,) Belgium. I have mentioned Canadalaan before, here and here.

The board describes the museum as a Museum Tranchées (Trenches Museum.)

Two field guns flank the museum’s frontage:-

Gun Outside Hill 62 Museum, Sanctaury Wood, Near Ypres, Belgium

Sanctuary Wood Museum Gun

The museum building contains many relics of the Great War but its main interest is a set of relatively well-preserved trenches to the rear of the building where the trees of Sanctuary Wood have returned.

These supports for barbed wire lean against the back of the building:-

Barbed Wire Supports, Hill 62 Museum

View of Trenches:-

View of Trenches, Hill 62 Museum, Sanctuary Wood

Derelict aero engines and shell craters:-

Craters, Hill 62 Museum

More craters:-

Hill 62 Museum Craters + Trees 1

Craters, Hill 62 Museum

Trench line:-

Trench Line, Hill 62 Museum

More trenches:-

More Trenches, Hill 62 Museum

Further Trenches at Hill 62 Museum

More Hill 62 Trenches

Trench Zigzag, Hill 62 Museumline 5

View Into Trench, Hill 62 Museum

Trenches, Hill 62 Museum

Hill 62 Museum Trenches

Trenchworks, Hill 62 Museum

A dugout:-

A Dugout, Hill 62 Museum

Trench mortar and trenches:-

Hill 62 Museum, Mortar and Trenches

Tunnel entrance:-

Tunnel Entrance, Hill 62 Museum

Part of tunnel:-

Tunnel, Hill 62 Museum

Tunnel exit:-

Hill 62 Museum Tunnel Exit

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