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, ...

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In October and November 1914, exactly 100 years ago, the British Expeditionary Force and the German Army fought the First Battle of Ypres in northern Belgium. Before World War I was over, Ypres was ...

first World War, the ground where bloody battles were fought continues to yield up deadly secrets. Two workmen were killed when an unexploded shell blew up in the centre of Ypres, in southeastern ...

JOHN Phillpott's visit to the Ypres Salient brings back memories of when, occasionally, my father would recall details of those four years. He served in the West Riding Regiment. We heard about ...