There were more than 100,000 casualties in the First Battle of Ypres, from October 19 to November 22, 1914, with a similar number of casualties in the Second Battle of Ypres from April 22 - May 15 ...

The line was eventually shortened, and Ypres did not fall. However this, the so-called Second Battle of Ypres , cost 60,000 Allied lives. There were 35,000 German casualties.

Life April 1915: Bravery, pestilence, and poetry at Ypres Gas was used as a weapon for the first time at Ypres. It earned Canadians a reputation purchased in blood—and produced a poem you know.

Monday marks 100 years since the Battle of Passchendaele, one of the First World War’s bloodiest offensives. The three-month military campaign, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, saw the ...

YPRES, Belgium – The First World War cut a swath of destruction across Europe, leaving centuries-old towns and hallowed buildings in ruins. Rebuilding took generations.

Based on location in Ypres, Dan Snow draws on the sound archives of the BBC and Imperial War Museums to hear veterans' recollections of the battlefield there a century before him. Show more ...

Two other men were hurt, one left fighting for his life, after they disturbed the shell as they worked near the Ypres canal. The circumstances were unclear because there was apparently no digging ...

The men's remains have been reinterred in a military cemetery near Ypres Six British soldiers have been reburied in Belgium with full military honours more than 100 years after they were killed in ...