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Day Five: Passchendaele Memorial Museum, Belgium
The museum focuses on the military history of the war, and in particular the Battle of Passchendaele. In 1917 the town of Passchendaele was the scene of some of the most dramatic events of the Great War. Almost half a million soldiers died, went missing or were seriously injured.
Housed in a striking chateau, the museum in Zonnebeke focuses on the material aspects of the war, including uniforms, weaponry, engineered constructions and battlefield archaeology. Its reconstructed dug-out creates a realistic sense of what life would have been like for soldiers working and living in the trenches.
The newly opened section of the museum is dedicated to the Battle of Passchendaele, especially the contribution of soldiers from the various Commonwealth countries involved in the battle. A large-scale model explains step by step the phases of the Battle of Passchendaele, with an emphasis on the landscape during the war.
Visitors can walk through a historical reconstruction of several types of German and British trenches in the newly- developed museum garden which provides insight into trench evolution, from the first basic trenches to well-advanced systems.
The existing dug-out has been extended, with five new ‘rooms’, and a post-war temporary house dating from 1919 will also be reconstructed. The Remembrance Gallery, the last part of the museum extension, is dedicated to the remembrance of the many casualties who suffered and fought for Passchendaele. It includes the famous Falls the Shadows sculpture from New Zealand artist Helen Pollock, made of clay from both Passchendaele and Coromandel, New Zealand.
Next to the museum, the Passchendaele Memorial Park will be a new park area devoted to the remembrance of the Great War which will include small, individual, ‘poppy gardens’ dedicated to various nations that were involved in the Battle of Passchendaele.
We Need your Help!
Our visit to the Passchendaele Memorial Museum in Belgium does not yet have a sponsor! In return for your sponsorhip, we will take a picture (with your logo if you prefer) of our Scouts at the museum, and we will also record a video of our youth thanking you by name from the site. In addition, you will be featured in our "Sponsor Hall of Fame", on our interactive map, and we will publically thank you through our social media channels encouraging the parents of our 100+ youth members to do the same.
All sponsors of our journey will also receive a certificate of thanks signed by all the youth who will be attending the trip.
We Work Hard for Our Donations!
Scouts are not looking for a hand-out, we are looking for the opportunity to work for our donations. As much as we appreciate donations, we also really appreciate the opportunity to provide a service in exachange for the donation. Our adult and youth members are insured by Scouts Canada for service projects, and the onus would NOT be on your business/organization in the unlikely event of injury. We can clean parking lots, shovel snow, rake leaves, clean windows, chop wood, complete light-moderate manual labour, data-processing, painting, customer service, trail maintenance, trash clean-up, web design, photography, graphic design and really anything else you can think of. You will not only be providing a donation to help the youth experience a trip that will literally change the way they look at their place in the world but you will also be providing these same youth with real work experience and life skills.
Sponsor our stop at the Passchendaele Memorial Museum in Belgium
We are seeking a $250 donation to sponsor our trip to the Passchendaele Memorial Museum in Belgium.
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