When I was last in the beautifully restored town of Ypres, I visited the In Flanders Fields museum. Anyone versed in First World War history is familiar with LCol John McCrae’s famous poem by the same title. Written in 1915 in an Advanced Dressing Station just down the road from Ypres, the Canadian medic’s poem…
The Australian 12th M.G. Company, 45th Battalion, 12th Brigade, 4th Division, near Anzac Ridge at Polygon Wood in the Ypres Sector, where very heavy casualties were sustained. Photo taken on the 28th of September, 1917.
These three Battleground Europe books on Ypres 1914 mark the centenary of the final major battle of the 1914 campaign on the Western Front. Although fought over a relatively small area and short time span, the fighting was even more than usually chaotic and the stakes were extremely high. Authors Nigel Cave and Jack Sheldon…
http://www.argunners.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Podcast-13_-Gas-Attack-At-Ypres.mp3 But I could hardly believe my eyes when I looked along the bank. The bank was absolutely covered with bodies of gassed men. Must have been over a thousand of them… On 22 April 1915, German forces launched a renewed offensive against the Ypres Salient. Their attack featured a weapon that had not been…
Aerial footage of Ieper (Ypres) filmed from an Astra dirigible piloted by Jacques Trolley de Prévaux in 1919. His cameraman was Lucien Le Saint. This new footage and photographs of the aftermath of World War 1 were discovered in a vault in Paris.
William Langford. The Great War Illustrated, 1915: Archive Photographs of WWI. South Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword Military, 2021. Softcover, illustrated, 390pp. ISBN: 1399085166. Review by Peter L. Belmonte NOTE: There appear to be two editions of this book, one of which apparently contains color photographs. This review refers specifically to the one without color…
We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.John McCrae World War I forever changed the balance of power across the continents as soldiers and civilians alike endured a trial by fire unlike anything civilization had ever witnessed and…
Fancying Casemate’s “Summer Blend of Fascinating Reads”: a .30 caliber machine gunner with God atop is shoulder; learning the true identities of “Catch-22’s” satiric caricatures; and how to advocate for America’s veterans FLINGING HISTORY TO THE WINDS AND GIVING FREE PLAY TO BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL IMAGINATIONS Readers must not be confused into believing the…
As Sherlock Holmes would have put it, when one has eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Holmes used the aphorism to solve crimes, but for his creator Arthur Conan Doyle, the surly attitudes of Germans in attendance at the 1911 International Road Competition in 1911 convinced him that the automobile…
An excellent historical record of the South Irish Horse Regiment formed at the start of World War I from six previously disbanded Irish Regiments. The South Irish Horse proved instrumental in the retreat from Mons, The action at Landrecies, the battle of the Marne, Aisne, and the First Battle of Ypres. The South Irish Horse…
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