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The Cardigan Rugby Club choir recently performed at the Last Post ceremony at Menin Gate, honouring WWI soldiers. Their ...
The bodies of five British soldiers killed in the First World War have been found in a network of trenches at Ypres ... nationalities are found in the old battlefields, the spokesman went on.
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 ...
Britain's last survivor of WWI kept the true horrors of the trenches to himself until a few days before he died ...
The family of a British WW1 soldier who survived being shot in the forehead then went on to be awarded the Victoria Cross has ...
British casualties at the battles of Ypres were 420,000 ... cathedral was begun in 1221 and was completely destroyed during WWI and is now rebuilt to the original plans - it also contains ...
Known to the British as the Fourth Battle of Ypres or the Lys Offensive after its location along the Lys River, from April 9 to May 1, 1918 Georgette pitted a total of 35 divisions from the German ...
Lots of pivotal battles were fought in Ypres, such as the Battle of Passchendaele. During WW1, battles were fought everywhere, including on private farmland. When the war was over, farmers ...
On April 22 1915, a greenish fog drifted over the battlefield north of Ypres in Belgium, choking to death some 5,000 French soldiers and heralding a new type of ...
British casualties at the battles of Ypres were 420,000 ... cathedral was begun in 1221 and was completely destroyed during WWI and is now rebuilt to the original plans - it also contains ...