The bloody Battle of Ypres was a series of engagements that took place on April 22 to May 25, 1915, as the Germans tried top breach Allied trench lines near the town of Ypres in northern Belgium. The ...
In October and November 1914, exactly 100 years ago, the British Expeditionary Force and the German Army fought the First Battle of Ypres in northern Belgium. Before World War I was over, Ypres was ...
My father, Standish Smithwick, met the young German at the Christmas truce in 1914 who had once wounded him. The incident shook all his notions of warfare and continued to do so until he died, 44 ...
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BERLIN -- The Germans are continuing to advance in the region to the north. Northeast of Ypres they have stormed and taken the canal town of Lizerne, on the west bank of the Yser. Additional prisoners ...
The huge 11 feet high and 15 wide artwork entitled Ypres, 1915, was painted by British artists Gilbert Rogers and has not been seen in public for ninety years. The canvas shows Royal Army Medical ...
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The Ministry of Defence is wanting to trace relatives of four soldiers killed in Ypres in June 2015 (Picture: PA; Getty) Investigators want to trace the families of World War One soldiers whose ...