Unlocking Ypres

Welcome to Unlocking Ypres - a new project to bring to life the experience of visiting interwar #Ypres - #UnlockingYpres #ww1

It’ll be a Bit Different This Christmas, Old Boy. Just in front of Plugstreet Wood, two privates of the London Rifle Brigade contemplate their first Christmas in the trenches. Prints and original available here: timgoddenillustrations.bigcartel.com/product/it-ll-… #ww1 #christmas #christmas1914

6 years ago today I shared my first illustrations of The Great War. It's been an amazing journey so far. To mark the occasion, here's a new piece I completed earlier today: It'll be a bit different this year, old boy! timgoddenillustrations.bigcartel.com/product/it-ll-… #ww1 #illustration

Just a little reminder to anyone in Ypres this Thursday evening, I’ll be giving a free lecture on Great War veterans, pilgrimage and the @cwgc cemeteries as part of the collaborative series organised by @GatewaysFWW and In Flanders Fields Museum. #ww1 #memory #cwgc

If you're in Ypres on 21st November, why not come along to this free lecture at the In Flanders Fields Museum. You can find out a little about it here: gatewaysfww.org.uk/events/seminar-‘returning-veterans-pilgrimage-and-british-war-cemeteries-western-front’-tim-godden #ww1 #memory

You can wear Daddy’s scarf, today. This Remembrance weekend, across the country fans are getting ready to watch their team. Here’s an illustration remembering all the footballers and football fans who fell, those who returned and those left behind. #ww1 #footballremembers

Last Letter The war poet Wilfred Owen pens his last words in a letter to his mother. A limited edition of 20, signed and numbered digital screen prints are available now in my online shop: timgoddenillustrations.bigcartel.com/product/last-l… #ww1 #wilfredowen #illustration

On 4th Nov. 1918 the poet Wilfred Owen was killed crossing the Sambre-Oise Canal, his last penned words, in a letter to his mother, said; "Of this I am certain you could not be visited by a band of friends half so fine as surround me here. Ever Wilfred X" #ww1 #WilfredOwen

James Pearson of @WATSONIANFC and @Scotlandteam who was killed at Sanctuary Wood, Ypres serving with the Dandy Ninth battalion of @TheRoyalScots. #JPNvSCO #rugby #ww1

In a damp secluded corner of this North Devon churchyard is listed the grief of one family’s war. None of them appear on the parish war memorial. #ww1 #memory

We popped into St. Peter’s, Barnstaple today and discovered the Barnstaple Branch Old Contemptibles Association standard hung alongside the 6/Devons colours. Also in there were a number of private memorials to parishioners killed during The Great War. #ww1 #memory

Loos British Cemetery. Never seen a stone like one before

1922, Thomas Cook catalogue - How to see Paris and the Battlefields. #ww1 #RIPThomasCook

@gdmnw Thanks, Gareth, though these would have been @CWGC interns helping you to discover Tyne Cot. You may have been lucky enough to meet @AmyHarrison19, one of our alumni and was an intern in Ypres.

@UnlockingYpres Very impressed by your volunteers at Tyne Cot today. The tour transformed our visit from a quick walk around the cemetery to a meaningful and insightful experience.

@ReturnedFTF @SB_Anzac @dizzernp @sommecourt I've no idea, presumably whoever has put the exhibition together either has it in their collection or has borrowed it from elsewhere?

My new Walking Ypres has just come out! Very pleased with it & it’s on special offer at @penswordbooks : pen-and-sword.co.uk/Walking-Ypres-… #WW1

Tribute bells for St George’s Church in Ieper, Belgium transported by #WW1 lorries to @CWGC sites: ow.ly/smnI30eMB7m #Passchendaele100

2/Lt A C Young, R Ir Fus, died at Ypres #OTD in 1917: his father added a very moving inscription to his grave at Tyne Cot. #Passchendaele100

@GatewaysFWW and @TheWFA International #Conference #WW1 Commonwealth War Graves Commission @CWGC bit.ly/2vew1sY

A little pang of pride that one of the @UnlockingYpres team just posted about Holden and cemetery design. My work here is done... twitter.com/tesei32/status…

Jack is the relative of one of our great supporters @TheDerb and is remembered here at St. George's Memorial Church. #ww1 #Passchendaele100