The bodies of five British soldiers killed in the First World War have been found in a network of trenches at Ypres, Belgium. More than 80 years after their deaths, archaeologists discovered the ...
First Ypres (October-November 1914) and Second Ypres (April-May 1915). Haig had long wanted a British offensive in Flanders and, following a warning that the German blockade would soon cripple the ...
Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches, dug-outs and barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918 ... the battles of Ypres, Verdun and the ...
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 ...
On the 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Polygon Wood we mark a turning point of WWI. Allied forces pushed back German forces in The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres.