Ypres Collection (page 10)

Big gun in Battle of the Lys, near Ypres, WW1
A big gun in front of a farmhouse near Ypres, Belgium, with shells ready for firing, during the Battle of the Lys, First World War. Date: April 1918

Aerial photograph of Zonnebeke, Belgium, WW1
Aerial photograph (British) of the area around Zonnebeke, including Zonnebeke Lake and Church, Belgium, on the western front during the First World War

Howitzer shells near Ypres, Belgium, WW1
A line of 15 inch Howitzer shells on the muddy ground near Ypres, Belgium, during the First World War. Written on them are painted the initials RMA [Royal Marine Artillery]

Heavy artillery, Battle of Menin Road, Ypres, Belgium, WW1
British heavy artillery, nicknamed Granny, with shells ready for firing, at the Battle of Menin Road, Ypres, Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 1917

Aerial photograph of Polygon Wood, Belgium, WW1
Aerial photograph (British) of Polygon Wood (Polygoneveld, or Bois de Polygone), near Ypres, Belgium, during the First World War

Field Marshal Sir John French, British Army officer
Field Marshal Sir John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852-1925), British Army officer who led the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) from August 1914

Staden, Belgium - the Ypres Road, showing heavy bombing damage caused during WWI Date: circa 1919

Ypres / Market Place C1914
Ypres: the market place Date: circa 1914

Ypres aerial view WWI
Aerial view of Ypres in flames during World War I in Belgium

Communication trench WWI
Camouflaged communication trench near Hill 60 in the Ypres Sector during World War I

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

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

Second Battle of Ypres WWI
In the heights northeast of Ypres during World War I

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

Clearing up after the Battle of Menin Road
German soldiers clearing up after the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge on the Western Front near Ypres, France. The battle itself took place 20-25 September 1917

Battle of Ypres 1918
Ruins of the Cloth Hall in Ypres with the remains of limbers and horses caught in shell fire in the foreground on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 29th September 1918

Royal Engineers Working Party coming down the railway line from Ypres on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 7th January 1918

Ypres 1918
Soldiers on the battlefield at Ypres on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 29th September 1918 Date: 29th September 1918

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

Soldiers at Ypres
Soldiers clearing up after leaving the trenches near Ypres on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 3rd August 1917

Ypres, World War I
Soldiers entering and underground billet in Ypres on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I in 1917

Soldiers cutting hay
Australian soldiers cutting hay for horse fodder near Ypres on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 30th September 1917

BEF arriving in Ypres, Belgium during World War I in 1917

Battle of Pilkem Ridge
Shell carrying pack mules moving forward through the mud near Ypres at the Battle of Pilkem Ridge, Western Front, Belgium during World War I on 1st August 1917

Statue in the ruins
A statue of the Virgin Mary in the ruins of what is probably a church after the Battle of Passchendale during World War I in November 1917

Battle of Menin Road Ridge
The 13th Durham Light Infantry in trenches before their attack on Veldhoek, Belgium, during the Battle of Menin Road Ridge during World War I on 20th September 1917

Yser Canal, Ypres, 1917
Dugouts on the banks of the Yser Canal, Ypres, Belgium on 27th August 1917 during World War I

Battle of Ypres
Enemy shell bursts during the third battle of Ypres, Passchendale during World War I on 4th September 1917

Lord Haldane and Sir John French
Lord Haldane (Richard Burdon Sanderson Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane) and Sir John French (Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French)

General Bulfin / Stamp
Lieutenant General SIR EDWARD STANISLAUS BULFIN (1862 - 1939) British general during World War I, most noted for his actions during the First Battle of Ypres

Ypres in ruins, 1915
An aerial view of Ypres in August 1915. In the centre is all that remains of the Cloth Hall. Beyond are the ruins of the Cathedral of St. Martin

Allies Shoulder to Shoulder at Ypres
French infantry charging alongside Irish Guards and Grenadiers at Ypres during the First World War. Drawn from a description by Private P

Viewing the Battlefields
Battlefield tourists survey the battle torn landscape around Ypres shortly after the end of World War One

Ypres / Cloth Hall
The Cloth Hall, seriously damaged in the bombardments of World War One

British gas mask
A British soldier wearing a respirator or gas-mask with an air-valve on the top. The Germans first used poisonous gas at Ypres on April 22nd 1915

What War has become
Cartoon by A. Forestier showing a German soldier carrying a burning-oil distributor on his back and wearing respiratory apparatus

The Kaiser receiving reports of German troops
A photograph showing Kaiser Wilhelm II receiving reports from his generals about the disposition of the German troops during the Second Battle of Ypres

Wearing respirators in a trench
Photograph of British soldiers wearing respirators while digging a trench to guard against fumes from bursting shells. The Germans first used poison gas at Ypres on 22nd April 1915

The Poisoning of Langemarck
The scene of the first use of poisonous gas in warfare; a shell-torn field at the entrance of Langemarck, north of Ypres in April 1915

British soldier in a new gas-mask
A British soldier wearing a new gas mask. Following the German use of poisonous gas at Ypres on April 22nd, 1915, it became a common feature of World War I warfare

Colossal impudence: Protection against English gas-bombs
German illustration showing a German Red-Cross worker wearing protection against English gas-bombs. The image is accompanied by indignant ILN editorial

French Take Ypres 1678
The French take YPRES

Wwi / 1915 / Ypres / Bastien
The burning of the Cloth Hall in Ypres, Belgium

Lille Gate at Ypres
14th century ramparts and Lille Gate through which British troops entered during the defence of Ypres

British Charge at Pilkem
During the battle of Passchendaele, British infantry charge at Pilkem ridge and bomb the Germans out of their stronghold

Mining Messines Ridge
Royal Engineers mine the Messines Ridge under German lines, and place explosives, which when detonated on 7 June 1917, assist the British in taking Ypres

Ypres Guarded Wwi
A British soldier guards the ruins of Ypres

Germans Surrendering
During the battle of Passchendaele, dazed Germans are driven out of their fortified cellars by British bombing, to be met by soldiers with rifles and bayonets

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