Aime van Nieuwenhove, a wealthy lace merchant in the pretty Flemish town of Ypres, was a worried man in November 1914. As a local councillor he had organised the evacuation of thousands of civilians, ...

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”), ...

The UK Ministry of Defence has identified two previously unknown World War One soldiers, Lt Leslie Harvey and Capt Gordon ...

Ceremony was threatened after being ordered to halt owing to coronavirus Every evening, at 8pm on the dot, a group of buglers sound the last post under Menin Gate at Ypres in Belgium. The daily ...

BRUSSELS, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The massed ranks of empty chairs at the Belgian World War One exhibition - one for each country and region that sent soldiers to die here a century ago - have been ...

A dawn cannon salute has commemorated Passchendaele, one of World War I's worst battles. Top envoys for Britain, Germany and Belgium attended ceremonies for the more than half a million killed and ...

World War I fighting officially stopped at 11 a.m. on November 11 in 1918. Ceremonies marking the anniversary took place around much of the world, including the Menin Gate at Ypres in Belgium.

The men's remains have been reinterred in a military cemetery near Ypres Six British soldiers have been reburied in Belgium with full military honours more than 100 years after they were killed in ...

The Ministry of Defence say the men were killed in Ypres, Belgium, in April 1915.

The site has been sealed off while explosives experts are brought in A shell or grenade buried in western Belgium since World War One, has exploded, killing two people. At least two more were injured, ...