The bloody Battle of Ypres was a series of engagements that took place on April 22 to May 25, 1915, as the Germans tried top breach Allied trench lines near the town of Ypres in northern Belgium. The ...

Gas was used as a weapon for the first time at Ypres. It earned Canadians a reputation purchased in blood—and produced a poem you know. “It is impossible for me ...

BERLIN -- The Germans are continuing to advance in the region to the north. Northeast of Ypres they have stormed and taken the canal town of Lizerne, on the west bank of the Yser. Additional prisoners ...

The Ministry of Defence is wanting to trace relatives of four soldiers killed in Ypres in June 2015 (Picture: PA; Getty) Investigators want to trace the families of World War One soldiers whose ...

Canadians, relatively fresh on the scene. had been moved into an allied bulge into the German lines called the Ypres Salient. On April 22nd, they were subjected to a deadly world’s first, a new and ...

Winter, 1915. Christmas Day approached. The trenches outside Ypres, in southern Belgium, were filled with Canadian soldiers You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you ...

At 5pm on April 22, 1915, following a German artillery bombardment, French soldiers holding the northern face of the Ypres salient saw a greenish-yellow cloud drifting towards them from the enemy ...

Londoner Woodman Leonard commanded an artillery unit in the First World War and kept a daily diary of life on the Western Front and during several major battles. Sun Media is publishing excerpts of ...

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”), ...