Memorial The Brooding Soldier
This impressive monument on the Vancouver Corner commemorates the 2000 Canadian soldiers who died in the first gas attack during the Second Battle of Ypres.
The monument stands in a park where the schrubs protray grenades and the front portray. The earth beneath the monument comes from Canada.
The monument has the nicknames "Rest on your arms reversed" and "Den Canadien (The Canadian)".
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Source
- Text: Fedor de Vries
- Photos: Luc van Waeyenberge
Nearby
Museum
- Museum Pond Farm Museum - Langemark (Langemark-Poelkapelle)
- Guynemer Pavilion - Poelkapelle (Langemark-Poelkapelle)
- Farm Kleine Zwaanhof Information Center Ypres Saliant - Ieper
Point of interest
- Information Plaque Civilians Langemark number 3 - Langemark (Langemark-Poelkapelle)
- Wall Disbanded German Ehrenfriedhof 124 - Poelkapelle
- Information Center Battle of Langemark - Langemark (Langemark-Poelkapelle)
Monument
- Commemorative Plate Edward Donald Bellew VC - Sint-Juliaan (Langemark-Poelkapelle)
- Memorial Hertfordshire Regiment - Sint-Juliaan (Langemark-Poelkapelle)
- Memorial Stephen Henshaw - Sint-Juliaan (Langemark-Poelkapelle)
Cemetery
- Commonwealth War Cemetery St. Julien Dressing Station - Sint-Juliaan (Langemark-Poelkapelle)
- Belgian Graves Veterans Langemark - Langemark (Langemark-Poelkapelle)
- Commonwealth War Cemetery Bridge House - Langemark (Langemark-Poelkapelle)
Fortification
- German Bunker Kaserne 2 Herzog Albrecht / Hackney Villa - Sint-Juliaan (Langemark-Poelkapelle)
- German Bunker Brugseweg - Langemark (Langemark-Poelkapelle)
- Goumier Farm Bunker - Ieper
Crash site
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