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19141914–1918 · Ypres (Ieper), West Flanders

The Ypres Salient and Passchendaele

A shell-torn, waterlogged landscape at Passchendaele during the 1917 battle
Archival image: William Rider-Rider. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Around the Flemish town of Ypres, British Empire, French and Belgian troops held a bulge in the line against German attacks for four years. Here the German army made the first large-scale chlorine gas attack in April 1915, and in 1917 the Third Battle of Ypres ended in the mud of Passchendaele. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers died in the salient.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Menin GateMemorial to 54,000 missing, with the Last Post sounded every evening.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Tyne Cot CemeteryNearly 12,000 graves and a wall naming some 35,000 missing.Map ↗
  3. Site 3: In Flanders Fields MuseumMuseum on the salient inside the rebuilt Cloth Hall.Map ↗

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