In the Ypres Salient, as the region is known, Canadians first saw the horrors of chlorine gas, and later in the war, the muddy Battle of Passchendaele would result in about a half million casualties.

Apr 28, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Add to Calendar 28-04-2024 14:00 28-04-2024 16:30 America/Toronto Documentary Premiere: Ways We Remember War: The Second Battle of Ypres and Canada’s Memory On ...

YPRES, BELGIUM - The historic city of Ypres will be the site of a seven-day vigil beginning Nov. 4 to remember the 68,000 Canadians killed in the First World War. The names of the war dead will be ...

Walking around the cathedral in Ypres, it is hard to believe the area was razed to the ground during the Great War. It is also difficult to fathom some of the other atrocities that took place not far ...

A rededication of a headstone for a fallen Canadian soldier took place Thursday. Cpl. Frederick Percival Bousfield was killed in the First World War near Ypres, Belgium.

Most of it was sown in the spring of 1917, during the third battle of Ypres -- known as "Wipers" to British troops -- when a staggering 4.7 million shells were fired into a narrow salient ...

Anne joined Princess Claire of Belgium in Ypres where the memorial, bearing the names of more than 54,000 soldiers whose bodies have not been found, has undergone extensive restoration work.

His body was not recovered, but remains originally found in June 1921 and reburied at Bedford House Cemetery in Ypres, Belgium, have now been identified as those of Capt Blencowe.

The Princess Royal rededicated the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Belgium (Aaron Chown/PA) The Princess Royal has paid tribute to First World War soldiers who “gave their lives for peace they ...