Ypres in a sentence

Beginning on 31 July and continuing to 10 November the struggle around Ypres was renewed with the Battle of Passchendaele (technically the Third Battle of Ypres, of which Passchendaele was the final phase).

The coastal strip is sand but a short way inland, the ground rises to the vale of Ypres, which before 1914 was a flourishing market garden.sfn Ypres is convert above sea level; Bixshoote convert to the north is at convert.

Diamond Skin Care, an independent doctor which runs out of Abbey Field Medical Practice in Ypres Road, Colchester, was visited by officials from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in December.

Mr Marsden's body was never found but his name remains engraved on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

After three months of fighting in mud, Canadians take Passchendaele, ending the Third Battle of Ypres; Allies gain five miles at a cost of 250,000 casualties.

Every soldier I know would pick Gallipoli over Ypres or the Somme, any day, twice on Sunday.

McCrae, who was born in Guelph, Ont., crafted the piece in Belgium following the death of a friend and fellow soldier at the second battle of Ypres.

Pte Dawson served with the 10th Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment and was 22 when he was badly wounded in Candle Trench at Poelcapelle, near Ypres.

Passchendaele, Cambrai, Ypres and Jutland also featured, more usually as middle names.

He was awarded the Victoria Cross for what he did in the Battle for Wurst Farm Ridge at Ypres on September 20 1917.

In the year that marks the centenary of the signing of the Armistice and the end of the war, Mansfield District Corps Of Drums are to perform at the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium, on Good Friday.

Killed in action Ypres 12 October 1917.

The Somme, Ypres, Gallipoli, Passchendaele – all places and battles which even those with the briefest of knowledge of the First World War will have heard of and places where Arran men fought and died.

Further German attempts to break through deeper into France failed at the two battles of Ypres ( 1st 2nd ) with huge casualties.

Group Ypres counter-attacked the flanks of the British break-in, supported by all available artillery and aircraft at about midday.

He fought in Romania and was seriously injured near Ypres in 1918.

He took part in the retreat from Mons and was wounded at First Ypres and invalided home.

MacDonald and General Seeley : :set off for the front at Ypres and soon found themselves in the thick of an action in which both behaved with the utmost coolness.

Stephen formed an army to retake it, but the frictions between his Flemish mercenary forces led by William of Ypres and the local Norman barons resulted in a battle between the two halves of his army.

Stephen's long-standing commander William of Ypres remained with the queen in London; William Martel, the royal steward, commanded operations from Sherborne in Dorset, and Faramus of Boulogne ran the royal household.