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6 unusual facts about Poperinge


Arborfield Garrison

The Garrison was also the home of "Depot" REME, this was housed at Poperinge Barracks.

Poperinge

Wolnzach in Germany, since 1965, in recognition of which the town was presented with a traditional German maypole in 1976

Under the Romans a link was made to it from the road between Cassel and Aardenburg.

Geoffrey Chaucer makes it the birthplace of his Flemish knight in "The Tale of Sir Thopas" from the Canterbury Tales.

Talbot House

Talbot House : a house in Poperinge, Belgium, set up by Chaplains Tubby Clayton and Neville Talbot in 1915 as a rest centre for Allied soldiers in World War I.

Toc-H Public School

Toc H is an international Christian social service organization having its origins at Poperinge, in Belgium during the First World War.


Milenko Milošević

He signed for West Flanders Division One side BS Poperinge, where he met his former Cercle manager Jerko Tipurić.

Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323–28

Zannekin won the neighboring towns of Roeselare, Poperinge, Nieuwpoort, Veurne, Dunkirk, Cassel, Bailleul for his cause as they opened their gates to him.


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