Officially known as the Third Battle of ... for the mud. Ypres was the principal town within a salient (or bulge) in the British lines and the site of two previous battles: First Ypres (October ...

Relentless shelling and bombing laid waste to the town of Ypres in Belgium during the First World ... hard and bloody. Soldiers drowned in the mud. During the infamous Battle of Passchendaele ...

HISTORIAN:The Indian Army contingence arrived during the First Battle of Ypres, just in time and in just enough numbers to block the gaps. They certainly saved the British from what might have ...

Cassar (Eastern Michigan) gives us a rather analytical, well written, detailed account of British and Canadian troops during Second Ypres (Apr ... which the battle ended. Cassar often uses the ...