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.

The ceremony honoured the strong connection between Hamilton and Ypres during World War I. Project initiator Peter Bos and VC recipient Willie Apiata during the unveiling. CHRISTEL YARDLEY / STUFF ...

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.

They are commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres, Belgium. The medals went for more than triple the estimated price at £1,300, after their story was uncovered.