With more than two million visitors expected to visit Belgium's World War One sites over the next four years, just how are the people and businesses in Flanders going to cope? It is eight o'clock on a ...
Reporting from Ypres, Belgium — “In Flanders fields,” the old poem says, “the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row.” And in the middle of those fields stands Ypres (pronounced “EE-preh”), ...
ANSBACH, Germany (November 29, 2019) -- Twenty-three cadets of the Ansbach 9th Battalion Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) visited Ypres, Belgium from Nov. 8-11 to study WWI. During the ...
The six Commonwealth soldiers and a German soldier who all died in Belgium between 1914 and 1918 were buried early on Thursday. Their remains were discovered during a gas pipeline construction near ...
A pioneering new green 'Living Roof' has been installed on the top of one of the most iconic World War One memorials. The Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, has stood in tribute to British soldiers killed ...
As little five-year-old Ethel waved her grandparents off at the station in August 1928, she was puzzled by their despondent expressions. It was the first voyage across the Channel for Charles and ...
Bells which will be rung to remember tens of thousands of British and Commonwealth servicemen killed near a Belgian town are to go on show. Three huge battles were fought around Ypres in World War One ...