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.

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 ...

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 ...

It is a simple song, says McCalman, but one of the saddest in the show. Far Far From Ypres began life as an album of songs and poems from WW1, which were recorded by Scottish folk singers.

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 ...

PC Alfred Wilson was killed in Ypres, Belgium on September 20, 1917, at the third battle of Ypres – known as the battle of Passchendaele. Alfred was born in Billinghurst, Sussex, in 1890.