Aime van Nieuwenhove, a wealthy lace merchant in the pretty Flemish town of Ypres, was a worried man in November 1914. As a local councillor he had organised the evacuation of thousands of civilians, ...
The huge 11 feet high and 15 wide artwork entitled Ypres, 1915, was painted by British artists Gilbert Rogers and has not been seen in public for ninety years. The canvas shows Royal Army Medical ...
first World War, the ground where bloody battles were fought continues to yield up deadly secrets. Two workmen were killed when an unexploded shell blew up in the centre of Ypres, in southeastern ...
Monday 4 August marks the 100th anniversary of Great Britain declaring war on Germany. The First World War, also known as the Great War, lasted until 11 November 1918 and is recognised as one of the ...
In October and November 1914, exactly 100 years ago, the British Expeditionary Force and the German Army fought the First Battle of Ypres in northern Belgium. Before World War I was over, Ypres was ...
A GRENADE from the First World War exploded at the site of an old battlefield in Belgium today killing two people almost 100 years after the conflict started. The shell exploded at a construction area ...
Antoon Verschoot will raise his bugle to his lips tonight and the plaintive notes of the 'Last Post' will echo beneath the Menin Gate, then float gently over fields that once were hell incarnate.
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