Saturday, 14 March 2020

Ypres 2020 - British Nieuport Memorial

The Nieuport Memorial commemorates 552 British officers and men who were killed in Allied operations on the Belgian coast during the First World War who have no known grave. 

Twenty of those commemorated served with the Royal Naval Division and were killed or mortally wounded during the siege of Antwerp in October 1914.  Almost all of the remainder fell in heavy fighting in the region of Nieuport in the summer of 1917, the Battle of the Dunes.

The memorial was officially unveiled by Major General Sir George Macdonogh in July 1928. 

British Memorial Nieuport
pre 1938

In 1937, adjacent to the British memorial,  construction began on a memorial to the Belgian King, Albert 1st who died in 1934. King Albert was a well respected monarch who led his country during World War One. The Albert memorial was inaugurated in 1938.

British Memorial Nieuport
post 1938
British Memorial Nieuport
British Memorial Nieuport
British Memorial Nieuport

At the base of memorial base  are bronze plaques bearing the names of those commemorated. Around the top of the panels is Binyons ode to the fallen.


They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them

British Memorial Nieuport
Memorial Plaque


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NIEUPORT MEMORIAL
ROYAL ARTILLERY




ROYAL HORSE and FIELD ARTILLERY
Lieut
JEB
OAKES
MC
10-Jul-1917
"Z" 1st T.M Bty.
2.Lieut
FC
BOULLY

10-Jul-1917
RHA attc. RFA
Bmdr
M
CAMPBELL

10-Jul-1917
"Y"1st T.M. Bty.
Gnr
J
SYKES

11-Jul-1917
"A" Bty. 168th Bde.
Gnr
W
TAYLOR

12-Oct-1914
58th Bty. 35th Bde.
Dvr
J
SARGENT

10-Jul-1917
21st T.M Bty.

R
OROYAL GARRISON  ARTILLERYARRISON ARTILLERY
Gnr
j
HIRST

10-Jul-1917
203rd Siege Bty.

ROYAL HORSE and FIELD ARTILLERY
Gnr
R
HALTON

12-Jul-1917
"A" Bty. 168th Bde