First Battle of Ypres

A German trench occupied by British Soldiers near the Albert-Bapaume road at Ovillers-la-Boisselle, July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. The men are from A Company, 11th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment.

An Australian chaplain wearing the "Large Box Respirator" also known as the "Respiratory Tower" during the First World War. Additional information : The man is probably Major Walter Dexter, DSO, DCM, in the Bois Grenier Sector on 5th June 1916. (source of information : Simon Jones, World War I Gas Warfare Tactics and Equipment, Osprey Publishing, 2007).

Map of Ypern-Battlefield 10/21/1914 - Situation of the German XXVI. Reserve-Corps

129th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Baluchis (now 11 Baloch, Pakistan Army) near Hollebeke, Belgium, First Battle of Ypres, October 1914. IWM Caption: "Men of the 129th Baluchis march across a field to the trenches near Hollebeke Chateau."

2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry fight the Prussian Guard at the Battle of Nonne Bosschen, 11 November 1914.

This is a photo of the German soldiers in a trench at Ypres, Belgium, 1914. The Battle of Ypres was during the First World War, in the general area of the Belgian city of Ypres, where the German and the Allied armies (Belgian, French, British Expeditionary Force and Canadian Expeditionary Force) clashed. There were hundreds of thousands of casualties. The term "Battle of Ypres" could mean all the fighting that occurred in that area. But the "Battle of Ypres" could refer more specifically to any one of five battles from the year 1914-1918.

Sepoy Khudadad Khan, VC, Hollebeke Sector, First Battle of Ypres, 30 October 1914.

Der Krieg 1914-19 in Wort und Bild, published 1919.

Bridlington Priory: memorial (25)

'Here They Come': Coldstream Guards in France.

Monument in memory of Captain Francis Hewson Barton, Captain of the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), and Captain George Rawdon Barton. Located close to the pier between the nave and the north transept. Inscription: In memory of Capn FRANCIS HEWSON BARTON, 2nd K.E.O. Goorkhas (Sirmoor Rifles) Killed November 2nd 1914, at Rouge Croix in the first battle of Ypres and of Capn GEORGE RAWDON BARTON, Cheshire Regiment Killed April 10th 1918, at Ploegsteert Wood in the third battle of Ypres. (See also Noel Ross, “Memorial Inscriptions in St. Nicholas’ Parish Church, Dundalk.” Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society, vol. 25, no. 4, 2004, pp. 475–83, JSTOR 27729951.)

The cover of the Evening News

Joseph Frain Webster, Second Lieutenant, the Black Watch, Killed in Action, 30 October 1914, Aged 22 years title QS:P1476,en:"Joseph Frain Webster, Second Lieutenant, the Black Watch, Killed in Action, 30 October 1914, Aged 22 years "label QS:Len,"Joseph Frain Webster, Second Lieutenant, the Black Watch, Killed in Action, 30 October 1914, Aged 22 years "

Karl wurde als jümgster Sohn am 26. Mai 1892 in Lübeck geboren. Nachdem er Ostern 1909 auf dem Katharineum sein Zeugnis der mittleren Reife erhalten hatte, bezog er zum Studium der Rechtswissenschaften für drei Semester die Universität Tübingen. Nach kurzem Aufenthalt in England ging er nach Berlin und Kiel. In der Examensvorbereitung brach der Krieg aus. Nach bestandenem Notexamen ging er in der Absicht, in einem dortigem von ihm zur Erfüllung seiner Wehrpflicht ausgesuchtem Reiterregiment, als Kriegsfreiwilliger einzutreten. Er kam zu spät und fand nach langem Suchen Aufnahme im 18. Bayrischen Infanterie-Regiment in Landau und zog Anfang Oktober in den Krieg. Nachdem er in Péronne, Lille und Comines mitgekämpft hatte, fiel er am 4. November 1914 beim Sturm auf ein Wäldchen bei Hollebeke. Er und sieben Kameraden wurden erst am 27. Januar 1915 gefunden und in der Nähe des Schlosses Albert begraben.

Karl wurde am 6. Februar 1896 in Batavia (Java) als Sohn des 1914 in Lübeck wohnenden Konsuls geboren. Seit seinem neunten Jahre besuchte er das Katharineum. Am 7. August 1914 wurde er in Lübeck als Kriegsfreiwilliger eingestellt, machte kurz darauf sein Abiturum, um nachher in Güstrow weiter ausgebildet und dem Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 214 (Mecklenburger Kinderregiment) einverleibt. Am 10. Oktober 1914 zog er von Lockstedt aus ins Feld nach Ypern, wo er am 25. Oktober 1914 während der Ersten Ypernschlacht in den Rang eines Gefreiten befördert wurde. Bei einem Patrouillengang in der Nähe von Weidendreft fiel er am 3. November 1914.

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Langemarck im Oktober 1914

The medal ribbons for Pip, Squeak and Wilfred, recipients who received the 1914 Star or "Mons Star" medal with the clasp were also entitled to attach a small silver heraldic rose to the ribbon when just the ribbon was being worn. It should be remembered that recipients of this medal were responsible for assisting the French to hold back the German army while new recruits could be trained and equipped. Collectively, they fully deserve a great deal of honour for their part in the first sixteen weeks of the Great War. This included the battle of Mons, the retreat to the Seine, the battles of Le Cateau, the Marne, the Aisne and the first battle of Ypres. There were approximately 378,000 1914 Stars issued.

1 Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Pte Evans had completed 11 years military service prior to the outbreak of war in 1914, when he was immediately posted to the Western Front with D Company. He was reported missing, aged 27, during the First Battle of Ypres on 29 October 1914. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres. Faces of the First World War Find out more about this First World War Centenary project at www.1914.org/faces. This image is from IWM Collections.

St James, Fulmer: memorial (h)

St Thomas, Bourne: memorial (vii)

Dead (French?) soldier near Ypern. Because of the bombardement other soldiers could not recover the corps until one year after death. He was seen all the time from the trenches, so the Germans gave him the nickname "Der Leichengigerl von Flandern" (corresponds approximately: "The dead dandy of Flandres". The foto was perhaps an inspiration for the (anti-war) etching "Leiche im Drahtverhau (Flandern)" of the German artist Otto Dix.)