Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, left, the Duchess and Duke of Cambridge, 3rd left, King Philippe, third right, and Queen Mathilde, second right, of Belgium, watch as the poppies fall from the ...
A dawn cannon salute has commemorated Passchendaele, one of World War I's worst battles. Top envoys for Britain, Germany and Belgium attended ceremonies for the more than half a million killed and ...
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 ...
YPRES, Belgium — A dawn cannon salute in western Belgium has marked the start of one of World War I’s bloodiest battles 100 years ago. Around 100 people gathered Monday at the Welsh memorial in ...
Thousands of British are returning to Flanders today, joining Belgians among endless rows of headstones, 100 years after the Allied attack that evolved into perhaps the most horrific battle in an ...
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 ...
Major commemorations to take place this summer to mark centenary of one of the bloodiest battles of the first world war Major commemorations will take place in Belgium in the summer to mark the ...
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Passchendaele village lay barely five miles beyond the starting point of his offensive. It took over three months, leaving 325,000 Allied and 260,000 German casualties The heaviest rain for 30 years ...
Aime van Nieuwenhove, a wealthy lace merchant in the pretty Flemish town of Ypres, was a worried man in November 1914. As a local councillor he had organised the evacuation of thousands of civilians, ...
A new addition to Oxford’s “Great Battles” series, Ypres is not a detailed account of the several protracted battles for that famed Belgian city. Rather, it is an exploration of the evolution of “the ...