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, ...
They came in their uniforms or their Sunday best, bearing wreaths of cloth poppies and handwritten notes for fallen family members and countrymen, to be laid upon marble steps, to be read like poems ...
World War I fighting officially stopped at 11 a.m. on November 11 in 1918. Ceremonies marking the anniversary took place around much of the world, including the Menin Gate at Ypres in Belgium.Soldiers ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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