A ceremony’s been held to mark the 100th anniversary of the First Battle of Ypres during the World War One. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Belgian and Dutch royal families were among dozens ...

In three years, the fighting around the Ypres Salient, culminating in the muddy, bloody Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, cost more than 400,000 lives.

Events in Ypres, Belgium, will be held in July to mark the centenary of Passchendaele, one of the muddiest and bloodiest battles of World War One. Descendants of British soldiers who fought in the ...

It was on July 31, 1917, just a few days shy of being three years into the bloody World War One, that the third ,“great battle” of Ypres began.

* 1917, the year of the battle of Polygon Wood, is considered Australia’s worst year in any war * 21,000 Australian soldiers died in 1917, a third of Australian deaths in WWI.

The First Battle of Ypres took place on the Western Front in Belgium from October 19 to November 22, 1914. Advancing German troops attempted to break through the defending British and French lines.

The line was eventually shortened, and Ypres did not fall. However this, the so-called Second Battle of Ypres , cost 60,000 Allied lives. There were 35,000 German casualties.

More than half a million troops - 325,000 Allied troops and 260,000 Germans - died in the battle, officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres, in the West Flanders region of northern Belgium in ...

The bloody Battle of Ypres was a series of engagements that took place on April 22 to May 25, 1915, as the Germans tried top breach Allied trench lines near the town of Ypres in northern Belgium.

Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, attends the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate to mark the centenary of Passchendaele, The Third Battle of Ypres, in Ypres, Belgium July 30, 2017. Reuters ...

A ceremony’s been held to mark the 100th anniversary of the First Battle of Ypres during the World War One. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Belgian and Dutch royal families were among dozens ...

Events in Ypres, Belgium, will honour the hundreds of thousands who died in the WW1 battle of Passchendaele.