Yser Collection

Star Shells On The Yser
This etching shows the shelling around the River Yser from World War 1, the river flows through Belgium and France. Date: circa 1916

The Deserted Trench
This painting, with use of angular lines, shows a deserted, flooded trench from the Battle of the Yser, which took place in October 1914, during the First World War, between Nieuwpoort and Diksmuide

Calendar, November 1914, WW1
Calendar, November 1914 -- Yser, First World War. By Hermann-Paul. 1914-1915

Belgian plane shooting down a Taube over Yser, WW1
Belgian plane shooting down a German Taube over Yser, Belgium. Date: 1914

Yser and flour mill, Dixmude, Belgium, WW1
River Yser and flour mill, Dixmude (Diksmuide), Belgium, First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Struggle for the Yser Canal, First World War
Desperate struggle between German and Belgian troops in a German attack on the Yser Canal, Belgium. Fierce hand to hand fighting; some cows which had been grazing in a field nearby were killed by

Winter conditions in the Yser country. A scene on the snow-covered road leading to the rear. With the British Army on the Western Front - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere

River Yser estuary, Belgium, WW1
River Yser estuary, Belgium, First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Difficult provisioning condition on the Yser Plain.. Jean-Jacques Berne-Bellecour (1874-1939)

Flanders: Crossing of Yser river barrier
The bridging of the Yser and Yser canal under fire, during the opening allied attack: Two of the British infantry and pack-horse bridges. Date: 1917

Winter conditions in Yser, 1914
Winter conditions in the Yser country : how the cold is affecting friend and foe. German prisoners and British soldiers alike frozen in the icy winds and snow in winter 1914. Date: 1914

Rain and mud at Yser, 1914
British cavalrymen cleaning mud off accoutrements during a rain storm on the Yser line in 1914. The rain has come down in pitiless downpours and the flat meadows have become boggy in the extreme

Trench mortars captured from the Germans, 1914
Trench mortars captured from the Germans seen here at Ramscapelle behind the Yser line. They throw a murderous shell at very close range. Date: 1914

First attack of the Battle of Flanders
Second Battle of Flanders: Going methodically forward they took every trench and point they were set to take precisely as was appointed for them, until they arrived close up to the Steenbeek River

How the Last German got back across the Yser by Heath Robins
A lone German cavalry officer negotiates the River Yser with the use of his horse, rifle, boot and sword, only to terrify his comrade when he successfully gets to the other side. Date: 1915

Struggle for the Dunes by G. Bron and G. H. Davis
The struggle for the Dunes: how the navy helped in the fighting on the Belgian coast. Left: the newly-acquired monitors, Severn, Humber and Mersey, firing on the German trenches

French infantry crossing Yser canal, Belgium, WW1
French infantry crossing the Yser canal, near Ecluse de Het-Sas, Belgium, very early in the morning, during the First World War. Date: July 1917

Belgian King Albert stopped the barbarian hordes - propaganda postcard from Belgium dating from WWI. At the outbreak of war Belgium was granted neutrality under the terms of a 1839 treaty

Trenches at Nieuport, Belgium
WWI trench system at the small Belgian port of Nieuport, on the Yser, photographed shortly after the conclusion of the war. Date: circa 1920

Albert I in Trenches
ALBERT I in the trenches of the Yser during World War One : he always identifies himself closely with his people. Date: 1875 - 1934

Belgian nuns and others, Adinkerke, Belgium, WW1
Belgian nuns and others walking along a road at Adinkerke, behind the Yser front in Belgium, during the First World War. Date: 1917

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

French Front Line 1917
Devastated trees at the French front line at Het-Sas, Yser

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