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View A field of great sorrow and of greater glory The battle ground of Ypres - Visiting the old battlefields of the Western Front, the scene by the ruined cloth hall of Ypres by Fortunino Matania on ...
Century-old battle sums up horrors of WWI ... When the Third Battle of Ypres started on July 31, 1917, World War I was entering its fourth year, bogged down in trench warfare.
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.
In three years, the fighting around the Ypres Salient, culminating in the muddy, bloody Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, cost more than 400,000 lives.
Monday marks 100 years since the Battle of Passchendaele, one of the First World War’s bloodiest offensives. The three-month military campaign, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, saw the ...
Battle of Passchendaele. Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties, but also for the mud.
A ceremony’s been held to mark the 100th anniversary of the First Battle of Ypres during the World War One. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Belgian and Dutch royal families were among dozens ...
A London bus used in the Allied war effort of 1914 is retracing its route in Belgium.
A ceremony’s been held to mark the 100th anniversary of the First Battle of Ypres during the World War One. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Belgian and Dutch royal families were among dozens ...