The bloody Second Battle of Ypres was a series of engagements that took place on April 22 to May 25, ... JANA HOCKING: I tried to seduce Hugh Jackman and discovered why THOSE rumors just won't die; ...

There were more than 100,000 casualties in the First Battle of Ypres, from October 19 to November 22, 1914, with a similar number of casualties in the Second Battle of Ypres from April 22 - May 15 ...

But when 168 tonnes of chlorine were released from almost 6,000 cylinders in the Belgian municipality of Langemark–Poelkapelle, just north of Ypres, just three days into the second battle for ...

Top envoys of former World War I enemy nations converged on Ypres in western Belgium Monday for a second day of commemorations marking Passchendaele, where at least 460,000 German and British ...

As our thoughts turn to the terror attacks which rocked London 20 years ago tomorrow, the Russian Federation is – according ...

The Desperate Second Battle of Ypres. Prof. Cassar (Eastern Michigan) gives us a rather analytical, well written, detailed account of British and Canadian troops during Second Ypres (Apr. 21-May 25, ...

The battle also represented the death of the old British Army, the “Old Contemptibles,” as they came to be known. The British Expeditionary Force that came to France in August had numbered some ...

Think of the men in our community – the young boys you see around town, the dads you meet at the hockey rink. Now imagine if these men had lived 100 years ago, and how differently our town would look.

While the first and second battles of Ypres were launched by the Germans in 1914 and 1915 respectively, the meticulously planned third battle was intended as Sir Douglas “the butcher” Haig’s ...

He and his son were in retreat to defensive lines on 2 May 1915, during the second battle of Ypres, according to Mr Elmy. "It was at the point where the Germans had just begun to use poison gas on ...

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