Ernest Steele volunteered to fight for his country in late 1914, even though he was below the minimum age for signing up to ...

A soldier who died in World War One will be rededicated after his body ... of the Hertfordshire Regiment died on 26 April 1918 near Ypres. He was previously commemorated at the Tyne Cot Memorial ...

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.

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the ... of both sides and view the battles of Ypres, Verdun and the Somme in more detail.

In 1992 a farmer discovered a WW1 trench, intact, in a field in Boezinge, a village near Ypres. A team of amateur archaeologists called the Diggers, led by Patrick Van Wanzeele, partially ...

My wife Fiona and I have long nursed a dream of an epic hike along the length of the old Western Front and this year, a ...

Apr 28 | 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Add to Calendar 28-04-2024 14:00 28-04-2024 16:30 America/Toronto Documentary Premiere: Ways We Remember War: The Second Battle of Ypres and Canada’s Memory On April ...

They fell in 1917 at the terrible, three-month-long battle of Passchendaele, near the city of Ypres (now called Ieper) in western Belgium. Today, if you visit Ieper, you will find a building ...

In 1992 a farmer discovered a WW1 trench, intact, in a field in Boezinge, a village near Ypres. A team of amateur archaeologists called the Diggers, led by Patrick Van Wanzeele, partially ...

The Handsome Lads is a documentary about the death of Locheport man Simon MacQuarrie – the first Uist man to be killed in World War One – and how the horror of the Ypres battlefield affected ...

The laces made in Belgium during World War One are an important part of the lace holdings of the Division of Home and Community Life’s Textile Collection in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...