Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties, but also for the mud. Ypres was the principal town within a salient (or bulge ...

The Daily Mirror reports the Germans' use of 'asphyxiating gas' in the trenches around Ypres, details some of the gains made by the Allies on the Western Front and provides the latest war news ...

The Canadian First Division took up position alongside French troops near Ypres, the last Belgian city not captured by the Germans. At first there was constant bombardment on the battlefield.

At 3.50am on 31 July 1917, the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as Passchendaele, began when 2,000 Allied guns opened up on German lines. By the end of the three-month long campaign, more than ...

Britain's last survivor of WWI kept the true horrors of the trenches to himself until a few days before he died ...