Canadian soldiers were among the first to witness the horrors of modern warfare as "the war to end ... up position alongside French troops near Ypres, the last Belgian city not captured by the ...

Ypres was the principal town within a salient (or bulge) in the British lines and the site of two previous battles: First Ypres (October-November 1914) and Second Ypres (April-May 1915).

Canadian soldiers were among the first to witness the horrors of modern warfare as "the war to end ... up position alongside French troops near Ypres, the last Belgian city not captured by the ...

It was the costliest of the many battles around the infamous Ypres Salient, where the British found themselves surrounded on three sides by German forces on higher ground. Half a million men were ...

On April 22 1915, a greenish fog drifted over the battlefield north of Ypres in Belgium ... dehumanised phantom by modern warfare,” said Doran Cart, a curator at the National World War I ...

The Menin Gate is a memorial in Belgium dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in the Ypres Salient during World War One and whose graves are unknown. At the daily service on ...

The Menin Gate is a memorial in Belgium dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in the Ypres Salient during World War One and whose graves are unknown. At the daily service on ...