Today it is a small, pretty city in the far north-west of Belgium, noted for its imposing cloth hall built in the Middle Ages. But one hundred years ago the nondescript Flemish town of Ypres was home ...

YPRES, Belgium — A dawn cannon salute in western Belgium has marked the start of one of World War I’s bloodiest battles 100 years ago. Around 100 people gathered Monday at the Welsh memorial in ...

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 ...

YPRES, Belgium — Dismembered soldiers sucked into cesspools of mud. Shattered tree trunks and the waft of poison gas hovering over the wounded who were awaiting their fates on the scarred soil of ...

1935: The RAF’s first monoplane fighter, the Hawker Hurricane, made its maiden flight. 1942: The Church of England relaxed its rule that women must wear hats in church. 1956: A ceasefire is announced ...

About 100,000 British and French soldiers had been killed or wounded in the first three months of the battle to take Passchendaele Ridge in 1917. A Canadian force was sent in as reinforcements on Oct.

Thousands of British are returning to Flanders today, joining Belgians among endless rows of headstones, 100 years after the Allied attack that evolved into perhaps the most horrific battle in an ...

Three unidentified British and Australian soldiers who died in the First World War has been laid to rest with full military honours in Ypres, Belgium, more than 100 years after their deaths. The ...

Bells cast in memory of First World War battles near Ypres are going on show for the final time before being transported to the Belgian town. St George's Memorial Church in Ypres was built to honour ...

1935: The RAF’s first monoplane fighter, the Hawker Hurricane, made its maiden flight. 1935: The RAF’s first monoplane fighter, the Hawker Hurricane, made its maiden flight. 1942: The Church of ...