Sint-Juliaan Things to Do Tips by Pavlik_NL

The "Steenakker" windmill

A smile in this sad landscape because of history is the "Steenakker molen" (= stone ackre windmill). It has been destroyed like everything else in the first worldwar, but was rebuilt after. The Germans nicknamed the windmill in the first months of the war as the "Totenmuehle" (Windmill of the dead) as for the many casualties that fell around it in the first battles of October 1914 in this part of the becoming frontline.

Canadian forces memorial

Rising high above the fields that surround Sint juliaan is the Canadian Forces Memorial. Different from all the other monuments in the Ieper Saillant, this silent column has a sence of artistic beauty. On the column one sees a soldier that holds his face down in moarning. F. Clemeshaw created it in 1921 and on it one can read "Rest on your arms reversed".
Here it was that 3.000 Canadians were killed in the world's first gas attack on larger scale.