and now they have added another chapter to the history of the Ypres salient.’ [Editor's note: This is an article from Century Ireland, a fortnightly online newspaper, written from the ...

"In WW1 the Yorkshire Regiment raised 24 battalions ... "Yorkshire Trench is the only British trench in the Ypres Salient still preserved on its original alignment. The importance of this site ...

London, 11 February 1916 - Irish nuns who fled from the Battle of Ypres are currently living in Golders Green in London. The nuns are headed by their Abbess who is 85, and the full community ...

now rest alongside the graves of thousands of their comrades who fell during heavy fighting around the town of Ypres. The seven men served together in 11th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers ...

A medal awarded to a heroic sapper who was buried alive in the trenches is expected to fetch up to £8,000 at John Nicholson’s ...

PC Alfred Wilson was killed in Ypres, Belgium on September 20, 1917, at the third battle of Ypres – known as the battle of Passchendaele. Alfred was born in Billinghurst, Sussex, in 1890.

“In WW1 the Yorkshire Regiment raised 24 battalions ... Yorkshire Trench is the only British trench in the Ypres Salient still preserved on its original alignment. The importance cannot be ...

Over time the Ypres Salient came to symbolize every description heard in conjunction with the Great War: sacrifice, courage, honor and duty just as much as chaos, slaughter, calamity and utter ...

but they were destined for the Belgian town of Ypres and the immortal Ypres salient. Here they would play a pivotal role in thwarting Germany’s last-ditch offensive to end the war in 1914.

Passchendaele is the name given to the third battle fought in as many years around the town of Ypres in the fields ... would one day win the war. World War One Remembered: The Battle of ...

It was on the usual massive scale, with each side cramming nearly a million men into the Ypres salient. Although not officially known at the time, all the British generals except Haig, and the ...

Helena Rosa Duncombe Shafto organised supplies for prisoners of war during WW1. Castleford Civic Society wants to find out more about the five victims from the town killed in the blast.