BBC2 年
Yorkshire Trench: Bid to restore Ypres World War One front line site
A unique part of Yorkshire's World War One heritage in Belgium has become the focus of a new fundraising campaign. The Yorkshire Trench, near Ypres, was built and occupied in 1915 by soldiers from ...
BBC7 年
Passchendaele 100: Ypres lights up to remember a dark past
The lonely, eerie sound of a bugle is one that locals in Ypres, Belgium, are well used to ... William and Kate remember WW1 battle 'I was named after a World War One battle' Passchendaele's ...
BBC14 年
Daily Mirror Headlines: The Battle of Ypres, Published 24 April 1915
The Daily Mirror reports the Germans' use of 'asphyxiating gas' in the trenches ... In Belgium the surprise caused by the asphyxiating bombs used by the Germans to the north of Ypres has had ...
The Mirror4 年
Third Battle of Ypres
Britain's last survivor of WWI kept the true horrors of the trenches to himself until a few days before he died ...
RTE Online6 年
Irish soldier describes the smell of the trenches
I am writing in good health. There is terrible slaughter out here at present, at the second battle of Ypres, where all the fighting is going on. You would be sorry to see all the grand churches ...
RTE Online1 个月
Irish soldier describes the smell of the trenches
I am writing in good health. There is terrible slaughter out here at present, at the second battle of Ypres, where all the fighting is going on. You would be sorry to see all the grand churches ...