APRIL 1915 saw two of the bloodiest battles of the First World War and by the end of that month fifteen men from the Athy ...

The Daily Mirror reports the Germans' use of 'asphyxiating gas' in the trenches around Ypres, details some of ... sight of a portion of the Fleet. The first sight which greets our eyes are the ...

Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres ... in the British lines and the site of two previous battles: First Ypres (October-November 1914) and Second Ypres (April-May 1915).

Cassar then, plunges into the battle with a long chapter on the early days of the fighting around Ypres. He then devotes a chapter to ... which included both ersatz troops and landwehr, hardly first ...

The First Battle of Ypres - one of five - the previous October and November claimed more than 250,000 lives. Now similar scenes are playing out around a small Ukrainian city. History has a way of ...

The Great Market Square of Ypres (Ieper) is surrounded by magnificent buildings like The Cloth Hall, The Court of Justice and St. Martin's Cathedral. Two hundred metres from the square is the ...