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Background imageSalient Collection: Brooding Soldier - Canadian Memorial, Vancouver Corner - WWI

Brooding Soldier - Canadian Memorial, Vancouver Corner - WWI
The memorial commemorates the 18, 000 Canadian soldiers who withstood the first gas attack on April 22/24 1915 (Battle of Ypres), suffering over 2, 000 casualties

Background imageSalient Collection: The Wipers Times, or Salient News, 1916

The Wipers Times, or Salient News, 1916
Editorial for The Wipers Times, or Salient News, Monday 6th March 1916, No 3, Vol 1. The Editor apologises to our numerous subscribers for the delay in bringing out our third number

Background imageSalient Collection: The Menin gate, 1927

The Menin gate, 1927
A photograph showing a grand archway of the Menin Gate, a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium, dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who died in the Ypres Salient of WW1

Background imageSalient Collection: Revelations from the Riviera -What the smartest

Revelations from the Riviera -What the smartest
Revelations from the Riviera (1927) - What the smartest women wear at Monte Carlo is prophetic of what will be worn in London and Paris in the subsequent seasons

Background imageSalient Collection: Welsh National Memorial Dragon, Hagebos - Iron Cross

Welsh National Memorial Dragon, Hagebos - Iron Cross
This fine memorial in Belgium is not only to the 38th Welsh Division, but to all Welsh Forces who fought in the Ypres Salient. It is similar to the dragon at Mametz on the Somme

Background imageSalient Collection: The Lille Gate in the Ypres ramparts seen across the moat

The Lille Gate in the Ypres ramparts seen across the moat
Ypres is a walled city and it has several routes into it. The two most well-known of its gates through the ramparts are via the Menin Gate (on the old road to Menin)

Background imageSalient Collection: German cemetery Langemarck mass grave

German cemetery Langemarck mass grave
The majority of the over 44, 000 bodies buried here are from the fighting during the First Battle of Ypres that began on 18 October 1914

Background imageSalient Collection: Ypres battlefields Entry Point South, Palingbeek

Ypres battlefields Entry Point South, Palingbeek
Three Entry Points (North, East and South) to walking tours covering many points of interest in the Salient were created for the 100th Anniversaries, each with an unmanned Information Centre

Background imageSalient Collection: New Zealand Memorial,s Graventafel, Ypres Salient

New Zealand Memorial,s Graventafel, Ypres Salient Date: 2016

Background imageSalient Collection: Last known King Albert Wooden Barrack, Ypres Salient, St

Last known King Albert Wooden Barrack, Ypres Salient, St Jan Date: 2016

Background imageSalient Collection: Kemmel Hill Belvedere Complex, Ypres Salient

Kemmel Hill Belvedere Complex, Ypres Salient Date: 2016

Background imageSalient Collection: Household Bde Passing to the Ypres Salient by Sir William O

Household Bde Passing to the Ypres Salient by Sir William Orpen Date: 2016

Background imageSalient Collection: With the British Officer in the Ypres Salient

With the British Officer in the Ypres Salient. Afternoon tea in a ruined farmstead. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere

Background imageSalient Collection: Building up the Dutch salient, WW2

Building up the Dutch salient, WW2
Building up the Dutch salient: Allied armour pouring into Holland via the Eindhoven-Nijmegen road for the great offensive, Second World War. Date: 1944

Background imageSalient Collection: American artillery, 1944

American artillery, 1944
American soldiers of the 84th Division, 1st U.S.Army, set upM3 105mm howitzers in the snow near Odeigne, Belgium on the northern flank of the German salient in the Ardennes

Background imageSalient Collection: Horses running the gauntlet of the guns, 1917

Horses running the gauntlet of the guns, 1917
Horses pulling ammunition supplies on the Ypres salient have to run through a crump barrage. Date: 1917

Background imageSalient Collection: 24 British War Memorial photographs

24 British War Memorial photographs in a booklet entitled British War Memorials 1914-1918 - Ypres (Salient. Published in Brussels by E. R. N. Thill. Commemorative Art

Background imageSalient Collection: Aerial Combat over the Salient, 1916

Aerial Combat over the Salient, 1916, by William Lionel Wyllie, RA RI RE (1851-1931). Date: 1916

Background imageSalient Collection: The Salient - destroyed German bunker on the high ground

The Salient - destroyed German bunker on the high ground, by William Lionel Wyllie, RA RI RE (1851-1931)

Background imageSalient Collection: The interior of the Redan taken from its left face, looking

The interior of the Redan taken from its left face, looking towards the salient angle, looking south /. Interior view of the of the Redan showing battery during the occupation by British forces after

Background imageSalient Collection: Ypres Salient WWI

Ypres Salient WWI
German field train goes to the front in the Ypres Salient during World War I

Background imageSalient Collection: German Offensive in Flanders WWI

German Offensive in Flanders WWI
German soldiers exploring captured British trenches and elephant-back dugouts in the Ypres Salient during World War I in Belgium

Background imageSalient Collection: Hill 60 WWI

Hill 60 WWI
Hill 60 in the Ypres Salient after the battles for its possession in France during World War I

Background imageSalient Collection: Hill 60

Hill 60
Part of Hill 60, situated to the south-east of Ypres. Hill 60 was a man-made feature, made from the spoil removed during the construction of a nearby railway line

Background imageSalient Collection: Disused British trench 1916

Disused British trench 1916
An old British trench at the Fricourt Salient on the Somme battlefield


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