Now Ypres, with its magnificent 14th century Cloth Hall, ancient ramparts, cobbled squares and gabled houses, was well and truly in the First World War front line.

The grave of a missing World War One soldier has been identified in Belgium. Capt Ernest Cecil Blencowe of the Dorsetshire ...

Except during World War II, Ypres has repeated this ritual nightly since July 1928. ... 411 Americans are buried at the Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial in Waregem, 30 miles east of ...

In 1936, the Ypres mayor donated to the Australian War Memorial the two limestone lions in gratitude for the sacrifice made by thousands of Australian soldiers in Belgium.

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 ...

When the guns finally fell silent, Winston Churchill, as Britain’s Secretary of State for War in 1919, wanted Britain to buy the remains of Ypres and leave it as a memorial to the hundreds of ...

In early morning mist, the Menin Gate rose dramatically from the moat that still surrounds Ypres. It's a war memorial that virtually dwarfs the town, a Lutyens-inspired gateway into Valhalla.

Each evening at the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, the Last Post is sounded in an act of remembrance for the soldiers who died in World War One. This has happened almost continuously since 1928 ...

The brothers are still remembered by their descendants, who visited the Menin Gate memorial at Ypres last year to leave poppies. Great-niece Kay said tragedy struck the family again in World War Two.