Lest We Forget
SOURCE: public domain
The First Battle of Ypres
Headlines: BRITISH REPULSE A FIERCE ATTACK
The Evening News, 19 November 1914
"The battle was not without substantial Belgian and French participation."
SOURCE: Wikipedia
Second Battle of Ypres
German Barrage - Fire at Night - Ypres, Belgium - 1915
The Ruins, Ypres, Belgium, 1915
From: The History of the World War by Francis A. March, Chicago-1919
The Second Battle of Ypres, 22April - May 1915
by Richard Jack (1866-1952)
Canadian War Museum (Crown copyright expired)
Honourable Canadian:
It was during the Second Battle of Ypres that Canadian officer Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD, of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, wrote the world famous poem "In Flanders Fields."
It was first published in Punch Magazine December 1915 and is still recited today.SOURCE: Three images above and information from Wikipedia.
Peace.
