Andy Carr's great-uncle, Gaston de Launay, a French military officer, found Naylor's Bible in a trench in Ypres. It reads, 'Found by me in the trenches, Battlefield of Ypres. May 13, 1915.' (CBC) ...

Then, with a hiss, streams of thick, yellow-green gas poured over six kilometres of trenches as the valves on 5,730 canisters were opened, releasing 150 tons of compressed chlorine gas.

The trench bore witness to major episodes of WW1 - the fighting after the first gas attack in April 1915, and the Third Battle of Ypres, the Battle of Passchendaele, in July 1917.

He lived close to the Ypres trenches, and remembers the soldiers marching down his street as he sat on his front stoop. By Marlo Glass Published Nov 11, 2023 Last updated Nov 12, 2023 ...

Canadian troops were out-numbered and out-gunned but they charged the Germans preventing a further advance. On April 24, a twenty-foot wall of green gas moved toward the Canadian trenches in Ypres.

Portrait of George Jameson, supplied by his family. Photo by Martin Jameson / Postmedia The Second Battle of Ypres, which began on April 22, 1915, would last for more than a month.

Incredibly, it worked: at 11:45pm the battalion of Canadian Highlanders stormed the Germans hastily dug trenches in nearby Kitchener's Wood, a forest about two miles northeast of Ypres, and sent ...

It was Christmas morning near Ypres, and the men of the Toronto Regiment were waking up in their chilled, fetid trenches. Swells of chlorine gas had floated across no man’s land a few days earlier.

YPRES, BELGIUM — Millions of rats, mainly black or brown, infested the trenches during the First World War and often ran over the faces of sleeping soldiers. Brown rats were the worst. Some were ...

Thousands of people gathered today (11 November) in the Belgian town of Ypres to mourn the millions of soldiers killed in the First World War, which began 100 years ago.