In three years, the fighting around the Ypres Salient, culminating in the muddy, bloody Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, cost more than 400,000 lives.

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A visit to the Ypres Salient is something everyone should do at least once in their lives. It may be the final resting place of great-uncles, grandads, great-grandads – and those thousands of ...

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 ...

On 22 April 1915, less than nine months into the First World War, the German army unleashed a terrifying new weapon that changed the face of warfare forever. At around 5pm, across a 6km front ...

Aged 23 in the summer of 1917, Sgt Ivor Rees from Felinfoel in Carmarthenshire, was already battle hardened when he arrived at the Ypres salient. He had been with the 38th Division at Mametz Wood ...

Newsround has been to Ypres, in Belgium, to see some of the places that were affected by WW1 and the memorials that have been built to commemorate those who lost their lives.

Accounts might differ in the details, but it happened in or around St. Julien, by the Ypres salient, behind enemy lines. The soldier was recorded as being white, around 5ft 10in, clean-shaven with ...

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 ...

On 22 April 1915, less than nine months into the First World War, the German army unleashed a terrifying new weapon that changed the face of warfare forever. At around 5pm, across a 6km front ...

The Menin Gate Memorial bears the names of officers and men from the UK and the Commonwealth Forces who fell in the Ypres Salient and have no known grave Accommodation: 6/10 This is a one-hotel ...

The group from Loretto visited the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing – a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium, which commemorates the names of thousands of Commonwealth servicemen who fell near the ...