This is the daytime view from Ypres’ landmark Cloth Hall’s 410-foot-tall clock tower, taken during a charity footrace. (Chris Reynolds / Los Angeles Times) 6 / 12.

They came in their uniforms or their Sunday best, bearing wreaths of cloth poppies and handwritten notes for fallen family members and countrymen, to be laid upon marble steps, to be read like ...

Ypres' medieval Cloth Hall was reduced to rubble by the end of the battle in November 1917. More on this story. Tracking down the WW1 grave markers. Published. 25 July 2017 ...

The Cloth Hall – like everything else in Ypres – is a complete rebuild. German artillery had reduced it to a pile of masonry by 1917. After the Armistice, German reparation money rebuilt the ...

At that time, bombs were still being found in the ruins of the once great Cloth Hall. Two brothers who ran a photography business, known as Antony d’Ypres, photographed their native town before ...

The historic Cloth Hall was rebuilt after World War I. Credit: Shutterstock It seemed perfectly chosen for this moment in Ypres in 1993. It was played in honour of a group of ancient Australian ...

View A field of great sorrow and of greater glory The battle ground of Ypres - Visiting the old battlefields of the Western Front, the scene by the ruined cloth hall of Ypres by Fortunino Matania on ...