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 ...

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 2025 edition of Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields will once again start from the Menin Gate in Ypres, a memorial to the ...

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 ...

Ypres was obliterated twice in WWI, but its citizens weren’t shipped to Corsica. Dresden was firebombed to ashes, but its residents weren’t rounded up and sent to Antigua. Hiroshima and ...

On October 3, 1914, thirty-one thousand Canadians set sail ... The Canadian First Division took up position alongside French troops near Ypres, the last Belgian city not captured by the Germans.