Reporting from Ypres, Belgium — “In Flanders fields,” the old poem says, “the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row.” And in the middle of those fields stands Ypres (pronounced “EE-preh”), ...
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, ...
A dawn cannon salute has commemorated Passchendaele, one of World War I's worst battles. Top envoys for Britain, Germany and Belgium attended ceremonies for the more than half a million killed and ...
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BRUSSELS, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The massed ranks of empty chairs at the Belgian World War One exhibition - one for each country and region that sent soldiers to die here a century ago - have been ...
The men's remains have been reinterred in a military cemetery near Ypres Six British soldiers have been reburied in Belgium with full military honours more than 100 years after they were killed in ...
From his seat in the Avro biplane 2,000ft above the Ypres Salient, Archibald James, an Observer with the Royal Flying Corps, scanned the desolation below. It was April 22, 1915 and six months of ...
The site has been sealed off while explosives experts are brought in A shell or grenade buried in western Belgium since World War One, has exploded, killing two people. At least two more were injured, ...
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