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Pilkem Ridge: View down the 'hill' looking towards Langemark

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AuthorEdwards, Alun
TitlePilkem Ridge: View down the 'hill' looking towards Langemark
NotesA plaque to the memory of the poet Hedd Wyn is located further along the road from Boezinge to Langemark, just after Pilkem at a cross roads on a building opposite De Sportman bar. Ellis Humphrey Evans (bardic name Hedd Wyn) served as a Private in the 15th Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The memorial plaque records that he was mortally wounded near-by on the 31st of July 1917.
Item Date9th July 2008
Creation placeYpres, Belgium (Google Maps)
Item mediumDigital image
ContentPhotograph
KeywordsLandscape, Western Front, Ypres
Repository nameThe First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Repository address
13 Banbury Road
Oxford
OX2 6NN
UK
Repository URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
CataloguerKate Lindsay
FilenameCXTPROPHOTOS - 117.jpg
CopyrightThe First World War poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford
Digital repositoryThe First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/5380