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The Princess Royal has paid tribute to First World War soldiers who “gave their lives for peace ... who was killed fighting with the British Army in 1914 and was buried at Ypres Town Cemetery. He ...
Though the reasons for WWI are murky to most Americans – something about the assassination of an Archduke, as well as the unification of feudal-era principalities into modern nation-states ...
Tyne Cot Cemetery. It will take you 10 minutes to get here by car. A quick right out of the town, over a roundabout, straight on alongside the old Ypres-Roulers railway.
The grave of a missing soldier from the First World War has been identified more than 100 years after he died in a battle in ...
The biggest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world is at Tyne Cot, near the site of the Third Battle of Ypres (1917), also known as Passchendaele. There are 12,000 headstones there: some with names, ...
War cemeteries are common around Ypres, from small memorials and tributes beside farmhouses to the largest allied burial site in the world, the Tyne Cot cemetery that’s home to nearly 12,000 graves.
A pocket of land and ruins known as the Ypres Salient. On average, 5,000 men died each month as British and Commonwealth forces fought to hang on to it. By the end of 1918, the dead numbered ...
A GROUP of 180 year nine history students and 18 members of staff from St John the Baptist School in Woking left at 5am on March 10 for a whirlwind day trip to Ypres in Belgium.