Ypres

World War I: Ypres

The Village of Voormezeele

The village of Voormezeele in the Ypres Salient was immediately behind the British lines at St. Eloi before it finally fell to advancing German forces during the great Spring push of April 1918.  The village was subsequently retaken by American troops of the 30th Division on 31 August 1918.

Christmas Truce

You are standing up to your knees in the slime of a waterlogged trench.  It is the evening of 24 December 1914 and you are on the dreaded Western Front.