A national ceremony in Belgium on Friday recognized the roughly 4,000 First Nations, Metis and Inuit soldiers from Canada who ...

One of the Canadians killed in action early in the First World War inspired Lt.-Col. John McCrae – a Canadian doctor and ...

Three huge battles were fought around Ypres in World War One but it was never captured by the Germans. The town's St George's Memorial Church was built to honour the dead but funds ran out before ...

A unique part of Yorkshire's World War One heritage in Belgium has become the focus of a new fundraising campaign. The Yorkshire Trench, near Ypres, was built and occupied in 1915 by soldiers from ...

A World War One soldier who died of his wounds seven years after the conflict ended has been added to a local memorial after ...

STUDENTS from The Skipton Academy have recently returned from Belgium and France where they visited several battlefields and memorials of the ...

The Second Battle of Ypres was fought from 21 April25 May 1915 for control of the strategic Flemish town of Ypres in western Belgium following the First Battle of Ypres the previous autumn It ...

Britain and its Empire lost almost a million men during World War One; most of them died on the ... of both sides and view the battles of Ypres, Verdun and the Somme in more detail.

With the Battle of the Aisne grinding to a halt as trench warfare gradually set in both the German and Allied commanders realised the dominance of the defensive established by quick firing ...

GCSE History students from Outwood Academy Danum embarked on a profound three-day visit to the historic Ypres Salient. The ...

Hundreds of army veterans gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Gheluvelt - a pivotal World War One clash ...