A field dressing station during the third battle of Ypres in 1917. (Photo: Hilary Morgan/Alamy Stock photo) Shortly afterwards, McCrae wrote the poem “In Flanders Fields.” The 15-line poem is in the ...
This story begins on the Western Front during WWI, specifically around the Flanders region in Belgium where trench warfare ...
a volunteer from the In Flanders Field Museum in Ypres, said the trench was "in a very sorry state at the moment - you can see it but you cannot enter it". "The structure itself is rotting away ...
Thousands of Canadians who died fighting in Flanders Fields are buried in cemeteries near Ypres. The Second Battle of Ypres in 1915 was Canada’s first major battle of the Great War with more ...
YPRES, BELGIUM — With autumn leaves falling and cold weather approaching, it’s time to turn our attention to remembering those who fought for our freedom.