Poperinge Town Hall Death Cell

So, So Sad

Over 3,000 allied soldiers were sentenced to death by execution for deserting their posts or acts of cowardice in WWI. Only 346 were actually executed. 25 British & 2 Canadian soldiers were executed i...

Poperinge Shooting post

This is where deserters etc were shot at dawn. The prison cell adjacent still have carvings/drawings on the walls that are protected with glass.

A very sad place..

Visited with a Leger Beer & Battlefields Tour, the guide Marc was excellent.. explained some of what went on here you can understand that not all those young men could stand it. When you go in to see...

Cruelty of war

Within ten minutes or less, you can imagine some of the horror of the war machine and how some were not up to its ruthlessness. Small, but the raw reality still hits you because of how very confined t...

WW1 Holiday

This is a must, it’s a very small but important part of WW1, it’s moving to see the writing on the walls still there and protected by the clear glass/plastic, it as easy to look in the second cell and...