The Daily Mirror reports the Germans' use of 'asphyxiating gas' in the trenches around Ypres, details some of the gains made by the Allies on the Western Front and provides the latest war news ...
Passchendaele village lay barely five miles beyond the starting point of his offensive. It took over three months, leaving 325,000 Allied and 260,000 German casualties The heaviest rain for 30 ...
Officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, Passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties, but also for the mud. Ypres was the principal town within a salient (or bulge) in ...
Britain's last survivor of WWI kept the true horrors of the trenches to himself until a few days before he died ...
Relentless shelling and bombing laid waste to the town of Ypres in Belgium during the First World War. Seen here in an aerial shot on New Year's Day 1915, the landscape is scarred and buildings ...
It's April 1918 and in the trenches of Northern France the Battle of the Lys, also known as the Fourth Battle of Ypres is underway. 22 year old Aníbal Augusto Milhais from the Portuguese ...
A memorial service will be held to mark the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Gheluvelt. It will commemorate the achievements of men from the 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment who saved Ypres ...