The Third Battle of Ypres, around the village of Passchendaele, fought from 31 July to 10 November 1917, remains one of the ...

Gent-Wevelgem will move its start way away from Gent from 2020, moving to Ypres in West Flanders, near the French border, for the next six years. The spring classic, which was first run in 1934, has ...

Six unknown First World War soldiers have been re-interred today (16 April), 100 years after they were killed in action. They were buried with full military honours at the Commonwealth War Graves ...

Gas was used as a weapon for the first time at Ypres. It earned Canadians a reputation purchased in blood—and produced a poem you know. “It is impossible for me ...

The huge 11 feet high and 15 wide artwork entitled Ypres, 1915, was painted by British artists Gilbert Rogers and has not been seen in public for ninety years. The canvas shows Royal Army Medical ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ypres is not simply a city but a state of mind – a symbolic place of pilgrimage and memorial to resilience. Though German bombardment ...

The bloody Battle of Ypres was a series of engagements that took place on April 22 to May 25, 1915, as the Germans tried top breach Allied trench lines near the town of Ypres in northern Belgium. The ...

Nonetheless British Expeditionary Force commander Sir John French now ordered another attack on Mauser's Ridge north of Ypres on the afternoon of April 23. This turned out to be completely futile, as ...

He’s one of Britain’s greatest war historians. And now in his masterly new book to mark the centenary of World War I, Max Hastings reveals the very human stories behind the war. Here, in our final ...