The Western Front Today
Updated - Saturday, 5 June, 2004

Collected within these pages are many present day photographs taken at battlefield locations and cemeteries located on the Western Front.

Also included is present-day film footage of many renowned sites and military cemeteries.  Thus footage is included from the Menin Gate, Tyne Cot, Hooge, Sanctuary Wood and Hill 60 (among others).  In total there are some 100 samples of modern day film clips.

The table below lists the sections currently available.  Thumbnail views of each photo are initially presented; clicking on any of the photographs (such as the one above) will result in a larger size image being opened in a new browser window.

To browse a collection of vintage footage filmed during the Great War click here.

16th Irish Division Memorial, Wytschaete (Ypres Salient)

18th Div Memorial, Clapham Junction (Ypres Salient)

18th Div Memorial, Thiepval (Somme)

18th Div Memorial, Trones Wood (Somme)

19th 'Butterfly' Division Memorial (Ypres Salient)

1st Australian Division Memorial (Somme)

1st DCLI (The Bluff) Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

29th Division Monument (Somme)

41st Division Memorial, Flers (Somme)

47th London Division Memorial (Somme)

49th (West Riding) Division Memorial (Ypres Salient)

5th Australian Division Memorial (Ypres Salient)

50th Northumbrian Division Memorial (Ypres Salient)

51st Division Monument (Somme)

7th Division Memorial (Ypres Salient)

85th Canadian Infantry Battalion Memorial (Ypres Salient)

Aeroplane Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

AIF Burial Ground (Somme)

Albert (Somme)

Ancre Cemetery (Somme)

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders Memorial (Somme)

Auchonvillers Cemetery (Somme)

Authuille Cemetery (Somme)

Aveluy Wood Cemetery (Somme)

Beaumont-Hamel Cemetery (Somme)

Beaumont-Hamel Memorial Park (Somme)

Bedford House Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Berkshire Cemetery Extension (Ypres Salient)

Bernafay Wood Cemetery (Somme)

Bethlehem Farm East Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Bethlehem Farm West Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Birr Cross Roads Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Blauwepoort Farm Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Bridge House Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Brooding Soldier Canadian Memorial (Ypres Salient)

Bull's Road Cemetery (Somme)

Bus House Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Butte de Warlencourt (Somme)

Buttes New British Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Caterpillar Valley Cemetery (Somme)

Chester Farm Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Connaught Cemetery (Somme)

Courcelette Canadian Memorial (Somme)

Delville Wood Cemetery (Somme)

Delville Wood South African Memorial (Somme)

Diependaalhock Bunker (Ypres Salient)

Dixmude Trenches of Death (Ypres Salient)

Dochy Farm New British Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Essex Farm (Ypres Salient)

Gloucestershire Memorial (Ypres Salient)

'sGravenstafel New Zealand Memorial (Ypres Salient)

Gueudecourt Newfoundland Memorial (Somme)

Guillemont Road Cemetery (Somme)

Hamel Cemetery (Somme)

Hawthorn Crater (Somme)

Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No. 1 (Somme)

Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No. 2 (Somme)

Hedge Row Trench Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Hellfire Corner (Ypres Salient)

Hill 60 (Ypres Salient)

Hill 62 Canadian Memorial (Ypres Salient)

Hooge Crater (Ypres Salient)

Hooge Crater Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Hooge Crater Museum (Ypres Salient)

Household Cavalry Memorial (Ypres Salient)

Hunter's Cemetery (Somme)

Hyde Park Corner (Ypres Salient)

Hyde Park Corner Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Irish House Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Island of Ireland (Ypres Salient)

Kruisstraat Craters (Ypres Salient)

Langemarck Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Lankhof Farm Bunkers (Ypres Salient)

Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Le Touquet Railway Crossing Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Lille Gate (Ypres Salient)

Lille Ramparts Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Lochnagar Crater (Somme)

London Cemetery & Extension (Somme)

Lone Tree Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Longueval New Zealand Memorial (Somme)

Lonsdale Cemetery (Somme)

Maple Copse Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Martinpuich Cemetery (Somme)

Menin Gate (Ypres Salient)

Menin Road South Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Messines Mine 1955 (Ypres Salient)

Messines Ridge Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Mill Road Cemetery (Somme)

Mud Corner Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

New British Passchendaele Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

New Zealand Memorial and Park/Bunkers (Ypres Salient)

Oosttaverne Wood Cemetery (Somme)

Ovillers Cemetery (Somme)

Oxford Road Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Peckham Crater (Ypres Salient)

Perth (China Wall) Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing (Ypres Salient)

Ploegsteert Wood Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Polygon Wood Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Polygon Wood New Zealand Memorial (Ypres Salient)

Pool of Peace (Ypres Salient)

Potijze Burial Ground (Ypres Salient)

Potijze Chateau Lawn/Grounds Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Pozieres Cemetery (Somme)

Pozieres Mill Australian Memorial (Somme)

Prowse Point Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Railway Dugout Burial Ground (Ypres Salient)

Red Baron Crash Site (Somme)

Rifle House Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Sanctuary Wood Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Sanctuary Wood Museum (Ypres Salient)

Shrapnel Corner (Ypres Salient)

Somer Farm Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Somme River (Somme)

Spanbroekmolen Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Spoilbank Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

St Charles de Potyze (Ypres Salient)

St Eloi Craters (Ypres Salient)

St George's Memorial Church (Ypres Salient)

Sunken Lane (Somme)

Tancrez Farm Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Tanks Corps Memorial (Somme)

Thiepval Memorial to the Missing (Somme)

Toronto Avenue Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Transport Farm (Ypres Salient)

Tuilleries Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Tyne Cot Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Ulster Tower (Somme)

Underhill Farm Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Voormezeele Encl 1 & 2 Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Voormezeele Encl 3 Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Warlencourt Cemetery (Somme)

White House Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Wieltje Farm Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Woods Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

Wytschaete Cemetery (Ypres Salient)

'Y' Ravine Cemetery (Somme)

Ypres Cloth Hall (Ypres Salient)

Film footage is available in Windows Media format (.wmv) and can be viewed using (for example) Windows Media Player.  If you experience difficulties during playback be sure to load the latest Microsoft video codecs available on the Microsoft website.

The photographs and footage were taken during visits to Belgium and France between 2000-03.  Summary notes accompany many photographs giving relevant background information.

German losses at Messines were 25,000, of which 7,500 were taken prisoner.  British casualties were 17,000 killed or wounded.

Original Material © Michael Duffy 2000-07, SafeSurf Rated