Image: Modern photograph of an intersection between two WWI trenches that cut dark grooves through a white snowy landscape. Text: 'Battle of the Frontiers, 1914'

Battle of the Frontiers, 1914

Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025 | 2 p.m. Zoom Conference

Popular memory of the First World War conjures images of mud-laden trenches and clunky tanks, but in the late summer of 1914 many of the war’s iconic technologies and tactics were still only in the early stages of their use – or yet to be developed. Clive Harris, guide and director of Battle Honours, explores the opening action on the Western Front as an exclusive preview of the Museum and Memorial’s upcoming battlefield tour to Belgium. 

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Hosted in partnership with Battle Honours and in conjunction with the 2025 battlefield tour

Prelude: Belgium and the Great War


In a beautiful landscape immortalized by Lt. Col. John McCrae’s iconic poem “In Flanders Fields,” explore the gateway of the Western Front with the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Belgium. Tracing the first and last footsteps of the Great War in Europe, we will examine the strategic and cultural significance of the region – from French trenches to “French” fries.

Image: Modern photograph of a bare farm field bathed in golden light after a storm has passed through, with a double rainbow in the distance. Text: '2024 Battlefield Tour / Prelude: Belgium and the Great War'