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 as well as the French department …

From 1914 to 1918, Flanders Fields was a major battle theatre on the Western Front during the First World War. A million soldiers from more than 50 different countries were wounded, …

Flanders Fields is a common English name of the World War I battlefields in Belgium and France. It is one of the most quoted poems from the war. As a result of its immediate popularity, parts …

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. It helped popularize the red poppy …

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.

Over the course of the four horrific years of the First World War, hundreds of thousands of soldiers fought in the muddy and shelled landscapes that are now known as Flanders Fields. …

The British decided to retake this strategically important position through an underground mine war. On 17 April 1915, five mines exploded under the German position which literally blew off …

A new map shows all First World War military cemeteries in the West-Flanders' area. All existing cemeteries are marked, as well as 530 exhumed and cleared places. The overleaf provides …

Nov 29, 2017 · Topics range from war photography and war artists (hired to document the war in some official capacity, including for propaganda) to artists such as Otto Dix, who fought for …

May 3, 2016 · ‘In Flanders Fields’ established the corn poppy as the symbolic flower of the Great War, but did not guarantee its post-war emergence as an international symbol of …