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St Julien Dressing Station Cemetery

The village lies on the Hanebeek, one of the small streams that drains the fields in this area: they turned into a morass in the heavy rains and immense bombardments of the Third Battle of Ypres of 1917. 428 British soldiers lie at the former location of the ADS, used during the slogging advance to Poelkapelle and the Passchendaele ridge.
At Kerselaar (Vancouver Crossroads), 1 Km further along the road towards Poelkapelle, is this magnificent memorial to the Canadian troops who fought in this vicinity; notably those who fell in the Second Battle of Ypres. The Canadians were rushed into the large gap left in the front line when French troops hurriedly withdrew in the face of the first-ever gas attack. They had no form of gas mask except the most rudimentary protection against the Chlorine that the Germans had released in cloud form.
Across the 's Grafentafel Ridge to Passchendaele
 
Sacred Ground: Following in their footsteps