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We should never forget the horror — and heroics — of Passchendaele The Canadian Corps, having already experienced the horrors of the Ypres salient in 1915, had no interest in returning there ...
Ahead of them, a rise along the Ypres Salient was held by two ragtag French divisions. Also: Governments have pursued WMDs over the last 100 years, reports Affan Chowdhry, and some have used them ...
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 ...
JOHN Phillpott's visit to the Ypres Salient brings back memories of when, occasionally, my father would recall details of those four years. He served in the West Riding Regiment. We heard about ...
In the Ypres Salient, an estimated 300 million projectiles the British and the German forces fired at each other during the war were duds. Most have still not been recovered.
The names of more than 54,000 men are inscribed on the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, a monument to those whose graves are not known.