On 17 April 1915, five mines exploded under the German position which literally blew off the top of the hill. The fighting of the Second Battle of Ypres ...

Flanders Fields is a common English name of the World War I battlefields [1] in an area straddling the Belgian provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders

In Flanders Fields, one of history's most famous wartime poems, written in 1915 during the First World War by Canadian officer and surgeon John McCrae.

The damage done to the landscape in Flanders during the battle greatly increased the lime content in the surface soil, leaving the poppy as one of the few ...

During World War I Flanders Fields were a major battleground on the western front. Today the peaceful region still bears witness to this history.

Trench warfare of WWI, spread over large areas of both France and Belgium, exposed these bacteria by disrupting and churning up the soil from artillery rounds ...

In the spring of 1915, shortly after losing a friend in Ypres, a Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote his now famous poem after seeing poppies ...

McCrae composed "In Flanders Fields" on May 3, 1915, during the Second Battle of Ypres, Belgium. It was published in Punch magazine on December 8, 1915, and ...

In the spring of 1915, McCrae was inspired to write “In Flanders Fields” after witnessing the devastation and loss of life on the battlefields of Ypres, Belgium ...