90 years of Remembrance
Pilckem Ridge
“ Concerns have been raised that proposals to extend the A19 Motorway near Ieper in Belgium will disturb burials on the First World War "Ypres" battlefield. ”
On 21 January 2002 Lord Faulkner of Worcester asked Her Majesty's Government:
What representations they have made to the Flemish regional government to prevent the destruction of the Pilckem Ridge Commonwealth war graves site by the construction of a new section of the A19 road between Ypres and Furnes.
Read the exchanges here
Who are we?
The All-Party Parliamentary War Graves & Battlefields Heritage Group, chaired by Lord Faulkner of Worcester, has over 90 members.
Co-secretaries are Peter Barton, historian & author of several books on WW1 in association with the Imperial War Museum & Professor Peter Doyle, a military terrain specialist.
November 2008:
