Ypres, Belgium, battlefield tours: A living place of the dead. By Alison Stewart . February 5, 2019 — 1.29pm. Save. Log in, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later.

If you’re exploring the battlefields on your own, Ypres (type Ieper in your sat nav) is an easy 1hr 30min drive from the ferry port and Eurotunnel terminal at Calais.

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.

But Ypres is not the only major wartime anniversary to fall in 2015. There will also be centurial commemorations for Agincourt (1415), Waterloo (1815) and Gallipoli (1915).

After the prelude at La Bassée, Armentières, Messines, and the Yser, the main battle of Ypres commenced on October 20 and lasted about three weeks. In this time the nondescript, ...

The anniversaries of several dramatic battles coincide next year, with Agincourt, Waterloo and Ypres all the subject of special escorted tours. Nick Trend reports ...

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 ...

In the wake of Ypres, Canadian doctor Lt. Col. John McCrae was distraught at the loss of a good friend in the fighting. It wasn't long before the chewed-up earth of the Ypres battlefield began to ...

Though the reasons for WWI are murky to most Americans – something about the assassination of an Archduke, as well as the unification of feudal-era principalities into modern nation-states ...

The battle of Passchendaele began on July 31, 1917, near Ypres in Belgium and ended on November 6 of that same year. For the British, the battle became a symbol of the senseless slaughter of World ...

When designing the new Battle of the Bulge museum at a former US military headquarters in southern Belgium, curators chose to feature a very commonplace object: a standard-issue Army blanket. It ...