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The nearest train stations are in Arnèke and Esquelbecq.
Esquelbecq (from ) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
It forms the villages limit between Ledringhem and Arnèke, between Zegerscappel and Esquelbecq and between Pitgam-Steene and Crochte.
In 1436, Wautier de Ghistelles was "seigneur d'Ekelsbeke et de Ledringhem" (Lord of Esquelbecq and Ledringhem) and governor of "La Madeleine" hospital in Bierne.
In 1436, Wautier de Ghistelles was "seigneur d'Ekelsbeke et de Ledringhem" (Lord of Esquelbecq and Ledringhem) and governor of "La Madeleine" hospital in Bierne.
In 1436, Wautier de Ghistelles was "seigneur d'Ekelsbeke et de Ledringhem" (Lord of Esquelbecq and Ledringhem) and governor of "La Madeleine" hospital in Bierne.
Travelling at , the train collided with a heavy goods vehicle stuck on the level crossing at Esquelbecq in northern France. The front power car was severely damaged, but only one bogie derailed. The train driver was slightly injured.
In 1975, Smith produced the film "Return To Dunkirk", about the men who escaped from a massacre at Esquelbecq. "Just A Year" followed three of the survivors of the Birmingham pub bombs in November 1974 which killed 21 people.
The source of the Yser is in Buysscheure ("Buisscheure"), in the Nord department of northern France. It flows though Bollezeele ("Bollezele"), Esquelbecq ("Ekelsbeke"), and Bambecque ("Bambeke"). After approximately of its course, it leaves France and enters Belgium. It then flows through Diksmuide and out into the North Sea at Nieuwpoort.
Llandudno is twinned with the Flemish town of Wormhout from Dunkirk. It was there that many members of the Llandudno-based 69th Territorial Regiment were ambushed and taken prisoner. Later, at nearby Esquelbecq on 28 May 1940, the prisoners were shot.
Lightfoot was one of several former and current (at that time) "Spurs" players who died in action in World War I. In early 1916, Lightfoot joined the Royal Garrison Artillery. He died in Northern France on 20 July 1918, the cause of his death is unknown. Lightfoot is buried at the Esquelbecq Military Cemetery.
The river Peene Becque constitutes the southern border between Ledringhem and Arnèke and Zermezeele. It is also the South-Eastern limit with Wormhout until the limit crosses a field between "rue des postes" and "rue de la Forgé". The North-Eastern limit with Wormhout is "rue Louis Patoor". The village Western limit with Arnèke is "Voie romaine" (D52). The Northern limit with Esquelbecq is "chemin de Rubrouck".
By 28 May the "Leibstandarte" had taken the village of Wormhout, only ten miles from Dunkirk. After their surrender, soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, along with some other units (including French soldiers) were taken to a barn in "La Plaine au Bois" near Wormhout and Esquelbecq. It was there that troops of the "Leibstandarte" 2nd Battalion committed the Wormhoudt massacre, where 80 British and French prisoners of war were killed.
On 26 May the German advance resumed. By 28 May the LSSAH had taken the village of Wormhout, only ten miles from Dunkirk. After their surrender, soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, along with some other units (including French soldiers) were taken to a barn in "La Plaine au Bois" near Wormhout and Esquelbecq. It was there that troops of the LSSAH 2nd Battalion, under the command of SS-"Hauptsturmführer" Wilhelm Mohnke committed the Wormhoudt massacre, where 80 British and French prisoners of war were killed. Although it is unarguable that the massacre occurred, Mohnke's level of involvement is impossible to know, he was never formally charged and brought to trial.
Brasserie Thiriez is a small craft brewery located in Esquelbecq, a town in the Arrondissement of Dunkirk in the Nord "département", in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais "région" of France, quite close to the Belgian border. It is situated on the grounds that formerly housed the Poitevin farm brewery, which was active and served the local area until 1945. The current brewery was founded in 1996 by Daniel Thiriez, who had become interested in homebrewing as a college student, and later left his career as a "human resources professional for a large supermarket chain" in the interest of reviving the tradition of the small village brewery.
After their surrender, a large group of soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 4th Battalion Cheshire Regiment, and gunners of the Royal Artillery as well as French soldiers in charge of a military depot were taken to a barn in "La Plaine au Bois" near Wormhout and Esquelbecq on 28 May 1940. The Allied troops had become increasingly alarmed at the brutal conduct of the SS soldiers en route to the barn, which included the shooting of a number of wounded stragglers. On arrival at the barn the most senior British officer in the group, Captain James Lynn-Allen, protested but was immediately rebuked by an SS soldier.
French Flemish is taught in a few schools in the French Westhoek. The ANVT-ILRF was given permission to carry out experimental lessons in four public schools (in Esquelbecq, Noordpeene, Volckerinckhove, Wormhout) for the school years of 2007-08 until 2010-11, after which it would be evaluated. Afterwards, all requirements were met but it was only allowed to continue them, but not to expand to other schools or to the "collège". On the other hand, the private Catholic education began teaching Dutch in collèges in Gravelines and Hondschoote.
Arriving at Poperinge on 20 August, Hessian troops under Freytag's command drove the French from Oost-Cappel and Rexpoëde back to Bergues. This fortified town was, two days later, surrounded by a corps moving south of Bergues and taking Wormhout and Esquelbecq. The corps was then spread in a thin military cordon. Its left lay at Poperinge, its right at Houtkerque. Freyta's command was split into a number of small outposts in the occupied villages. Freytag was an experienced commander and had seen much service in the seven years war commanding light troops, however at Hondschoote his trust in the cordon system of linked army outposts was to prove fatal.