Landships II

.....and have to wait one hour before the local Pub opens:

At the Memorial Museum Passchendaele there is an exhibition concerning Colonial Troops at the "IJzer frontline".

Belgians didn't "used" Colonial Troops in Flanders but anyway there were about 20 Congolese Soldiers fighting in the Flamisch trenches (dressed in Belgian Uniforms)

Who were they, how came they to the Belgian front, who suvived and what happens after the war with them?

Their story (photos, documents) in the "Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917" from 23 April untill 30 November 2011, open from 0900Hr untill 17OOHr, NO entrance fee

Adress: Ieperstraat 7A, 8980 Zonnebeke (Phone: Belgium 051/770441

More Info: toerisme@zonnebeke.be or www.passchendaele.be

At the same adress: 24 April: "Flanders Scottisch day"
                                 25 April: "Anzac Day"

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