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There were more than 100,000 casualties in the First Battle of Ypres, from October 19 to November 22, 1914, with a similar number of casualties in the Second Battle of Ypres from April 22 - May 15 ...
The battle also represented the death of the old British Army, the “Old Contemptibles,” as they came to be known. The British Expeditionary Force that came to France in August had numbered some ...
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.
Around 100 people gathered Monday at the Welsh memorial in Langemark, near where the Third Battle of Ypres, known as Passchendaele, began. More than half a million Allied and German troops were ...
The Allies halted their advances in western Belgium in the First Battle of Ypres in November 1914, and entrenched fronts were established. The war of attrition was on.
Ninety years after the battle of Passchendaele, officially known as the third battle of Ypres, a group of enthusiasts is attempting to dig up some of the key trenches of World War I. Conditions at the ...
Private John Tame was 26 when he died at the Battle of Langemarck in August 1917. His remains were identified after being found during roadworks at Zonnebeke near Ypres in Western Belgium in May 2018.
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