In all, more than 500,000 tons of chemical gas agents were used in World War I. Some 500,000 troops were injured and some 30,000 died, including 2,000 American troops.

The bodies of five British soldiers killed in the First World War have been found in a network of trenches at Ypres, Belgium. More than 80 years after their deaths, archaeologists discovered the ...

More than a century after his death, the previously unmarked grave of Corporal of Horse (CoH) Charles Edward Dean has finally ...

First Ypres (October-November 1914) and Second Ypres (April-May 1915). Haig had long wanted a British offensive in Flanders and, following a warning that the German blockade would soon cripple the ...

Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches, dug-outs and barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918 ... the battles of Ypres, Verdun and the ...

The attack would begin with the most intense bombardment in history on the morning of March 10, 1915, exceeding even the German onslaughts at Ypres, with over 500 guns of various calibers massed ...

The 2025 edition of Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields will once again start from the Menin Gate in Ypres, a memorial to the victims of World War I, and end on Vanackerestraat in Wevelgem. This year's ...

On April 22 1915, a greenish fog drifted over the battlefield north of Ypres in Belgium ... a curator at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, in the US. “That had a huge impact ...

Between 1914 and 1918 five major battles were fought for control of Ypres. Troops on the ground sheltered in trenches while all around them the ground shook from exploding shells. Combat was hard ...