Ypres and the Battles of Ypres

by Unknown

ARMENTIÈRES. NÔTRE-DAME CHURCH, WHICH THE GERMANS BLEW UP BEFORE BEING DRIVEN OUT OF THE TOWN (see above)

ARMENTIÈRES. RUE NATIONALE, AS THE SHELLS LEFT IT

ARMENTIÈRES. RUE DE LILLE IN RUINS

BIZET. POST ON THE FRONTIER
On the left of motor-car: TEMPORARY CUSTOM HOUSE

Cross the Cloth Market, then follow the tram-lines along Rue de Flandre and Rue Bizet. Follow the Lys Canal, then cross the new bridge. Go through Bizet Village (badly damaged houses). Leaving the ruins of the church on the right, turn first to the right, then to the left (the photograph shows an army hut on the left, now temporarily used as the office of the Receiver of French Customs). Cross the frontier a few yards further on, then at the fork just outside the village, take the road on the right opposite the Villa des Roses (photo below). Leaving on the right the road to the gasworks (of which nothing is left but a wrecked gasometer) the first houses of Ploegsteert are reached. This village lay west of the first lines in May, 1918, and was captured by the Germans on April 12 (see p. 39).