Showing posts with label Ypres. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ypres. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Ypres, 1916

A pair of Germans at Ypres with contrasting artillery shells. A 75mm French shell casing resting on top of a 15in English dud.

Saturday, August 3, 2013

74th Landwehr in Belgium


A member of the 74th Landwehr posing by a damaged house in Belgium. His unit spent most 1916 in the area southeast of Ypres before moving to the Somme in October. Kruisstraat would be the site of three mine explosions during the Third Battle of Ypres.

Friday, July 29, 2011

Flanders trench

A well maintained German trench in Flanders.