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... Sir John French was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Home Forces, and was raised to the Peerage as Viscount French of Ypres and of High Lake in the County of Roscommon. His first public appearance in his new capacity was at a review of troops at Newcastle ...
... or have been the scene of fighting, and from which the inhabitants have consequently fled. There was a pleasant story from Ypres not long ago about a British officer who crawled into some ruined buildings to rescue a cat, and was undeterred in his work ...
... were often heralded and accompanied by l?and-playing, and theisame was the case, it has been stated, in the fighting near Ypres. ...
... magnificent fighting qualities ever since they first went out to the Front. Their heroic deeds in more than one battle near Ypres are not, and never will be, forgotten. It was stated recently that the Canadian Minister of Militia, General Sir Sam Hughes ...
... repeatedly proved themselves at close quarters as dreaded antagonists as were admittedly our own Gurkhas in the trenches before Ypres during the first fighting there. Some of the Senegalese battalions are on the Somme now, taking a prominent part in the fiercest ...
... AN ENGLISH TOWN REALISES THE EXPERIENCE OF BELGIUM : A LOUVAIN OR YPRES SCENE IN A HOUSE AT SCARBOROUGH. —[Photo, by Swains] The German bombardment of Scarborough, Hartlepool, and Whitby has brought home to English people what war means as waged by the ...
... the fall of Antwerp, Sir John French had, as an emergency measure, to employ British cavalry for manning the trenches near Ypres until sufficient infantry regiments had time to reach the point of danger.—[Photo. ...
... and ea t of Ypres, and the Cambrai front wa; for the moment left alone ; but on the 5th the enemy guns broke into great activity once more south of „ so Marcoing and north of the BapaumeCambrai road; while, northward, the Lens and Ypres regions were ...
... northTeast of Ypres and at several points south of the Scarpe, the rest of the day was uneventful. On the 10th there was slight hostile gun-fire near Gonnelieu, and heavier activity later south of Bullecourt, west of Lens, and east of Ypres. London and ...
... The Belgian Army stands fast where it halted and turned to bay after the fall of Antwerp, in the tract of country between Ypres and the sea, the last independent strip left of Belgian soil. Thanks to the great inundations of October and November 1914 ...
... French was able to report that the British troops had established a mastery over the enemy's snipers in the neighbourhood of Ypres, La Bassée, and other portions of the front. This result, he said, is primarily due to local and individual initiative. ...
... THROUGHOUT, contains A 3 ft. 4; in. PHOTOGRAVURE PANORAMA, by R. Caton Woodville ( The Defeat of the Prussian Guard before Ypres '*), Also 28 PHOTOGRAVURE PROOFS (each 20 in. by llf in.) by Great Britain's most famous War Artists. All paintings are strictly ...