Carrefour des Roses

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The Carrefour des Roses is a memorial of the town of Boezinge, located near the Langemarkseweg.

History: Near this place were the victims of the first German gas attack on 22 April 1915. It was a division of older French soldiers (les Pépères) and an Algerian division. Many of the graves of the victims were already repatriated and buried in the French cemetery of Nécropole nationale de Notre-Dame de Lorette. Especially the Breton survivors needed a memorial place near where the victims had fallen. This became a piece of land near the inn The Resistance, where the center of the French sector was located in 1915. On the charts this was referred to as Carrefour des Roses. It was right behind the front during the Second Battle of Ypres. A 16th-century Breton Calvary in pink granite, from Louargat, was donated by a gas attack survivor. A number of menhirs were also donated. On the largest menhir you will find an orientation table. A Breton landscape was also copied with juniper bushes and broom. The site was inaugurated in 1929 by former chaplain and...