Article: My trip to remember; PAY TRIBUTE TO FALLEN HEROES IN YPRES.(Features)

Dictionary definition: Ypres, Battles of (World War ...
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History;      457 words ...Ypres, Battles of (World War I) There were a total of four battles near the Belgian city of Ypres, representing various attempts by the ... Commonwealth troops died fighting around Ypres during World War I.

Article: Ypres veterans return; Lest we forget: Centenarians ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  July 25, 2002 ;     534 words ... ... year-old veteran of the First World War, prepares to lay a wreath in memory ... fallen comrades at the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium, yesterday Three First World War veterans were feted through the streets of Ypres yesterday when they returned to ...

Article: Arts: All go on the Western Front The First World ...
The Independent - London;  April 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... entrenched in the salient north of Ypres saw a yellow-grey fog drifting ... use of poison gas in the First World War. Panic broke out and swiftly spread ... referred to as the Second Battle of Ypres. I was in Ypres 10 days ago, with a party of journalists ...

Article: A personal tribute to the men of Ypres; Singer-songwriter ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  November 9, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... killing fields of the First World War. The events of 1914 ... to the Third Battle of Ypres by the innocuous Flemish ... grandfathers were at Ypres and he asked what their ... them. 'Growing up in Ypres, Piet has been very ... and sing some old First World War songs - it's something ...

Article: Landscape and memory: Brian James revisits Ypres, where ...
History Today;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... made the fluctuating Battle of Ypres a benchmark of the First World War are still alive. But the footprint ... us tell the story--and at Ypres there is a sentence of that story ... panoramic photographs of pre-1914 Ypres, with the slow devastation of ...

Previously Unknown First World War Trench Unearthed Near ...
Getty Images;  November 10, 2003 ;     255 words ... ... Fusiliers on November 10, 2003 in Ypres, Belgium. Archaeologists excavating ... route of a planned motorway near Ypres have uncovered a series of trenches ... were abandoned at the end of World War I and contain the bodies of ... Getty Images) Dateline: Ypres, Belgium Keywords 1st WW ...

Article: 3rd battle of ypres was one of costliest of world ...
The Virginian Pilot;  July 12, 2007 ;     607 words ... ... known as the third battle of Ypres, is distinctive among the battles of World War I because of its cost, and ... launch his forces from the Ypres salient, the loop in the front ... then stormed the ridge over Ypres from the south. What followed ...