Ypres Collection

Le Premier Volume de la bible en francoiz historiee et nouvellement imprimee, ca. 1501. [Adam and Eve, from a bible in French]

Map of Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium, First World War, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Map of Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium, First World War, (c1920). The Ypres Salient before the Battle of July 31, 1917: map showing the approximate positions of the Franco-British Line

The Ypres Salient before and after the Second Battle of Ypres... First World War, 1915, (c1920)
The Ypres Salient before and after the Second Battle of Ypres, April 22-May 13, First World War, 1915, (c1920). Map showing positions of the allied forces around Ypres in Belgium: French

Place du Marche a Ypres, ca. 1851. Creator: Possibly by Louis-Desiré
Place du Marche a Ypres, ca. 1851

The New Cathedral of St. Martins and the Cloth Hall Ruins, Ypres, Belgium, c1930s. From " Tour of the World". [Keystone View Company, Meadville, Pa. New York, Chicago, London]

The Battles of the Flanders Ridges, July 30-November 26, 1917, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
The Battles of the Flanders Ridges, July 30-November 26, 1917, (c1920)....map illustrating successive stages of the Allies advance...inset

British soldiers after the Battle of St Eloi, Flanders, First World War, 27 March 1916, (c1920). Happy Warriors: officers

Map showing the Scene of the German Attacks... First World War, February 1916, (c1920)
Map showing the Scene of the German Attacks East and South-east of Ypres, [Belgium], First World War, February 1916, (c1920)

The First V. C. ever Won by a Territorial, 1916. Creator: Unknown
The First V.C. ever Won by a Territorial, 1916. Second-Lieut. G. H. Woolley s. defence of Hill 60 made him the first British Territorial Army officer to be awarded the Victoria Cross

Glorious Charge of the Fusiliers at St. Eloi, 1916. Creator: Unknown
Glorious Charge of the Fusiliers at St. Eloi, 1916. The Battle of St. Eloi was fought from 27 March to 16 April 1916 in a landscape pitted by mine explosions

Menin Gate Memorial to the Unknown Soldiers of the British Armies, Ypres, Belgium, c1927. The Menin Gate, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield

German positions near Ypres, Flanders, First World War, 1915, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
German positions near Ypres, Flanders, First World War, 1915, (c1920). Map of the Environs of Ypres, showing approximately the German line after the battles of St. Eloi and Hill 60

Belgian soldiers in the trenches, First World War, 1914, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Belgian soldiers in the trenches, First World War, 1914, (c1920). Winter Campaigning at Ypres. From " The Great World War - A History" Volume I, edited by Frank A Mumby

British positions before the First Battle of Ypres, First World War, 1914, (c1920)
British positions before the First Battle of Ypres, First World War, 29-31 October 1914, (c1920). From " The Great World War - A History" Volume I, edited by Frank A Mumby

The Theatre of War in Flanders, 1914, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
The Theatre of War in Flanders, 1914, (c1920). Map showing part of northern France and Belgium during the First World War

The Menin Gate is unveiled, Ypres, Belgium, 24 July 1927, (1935). Creator: Unknown
The Menin Gate is unveiled, Ypres, Belgium, 24 July 1927, (1935). Field Marshal Lord Plumer unveiled the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in memory of British

One of Our Observation Balloons, (1919). Creator: Unknown
One of Our Observation Balloons, (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: It is seen coming to rest after a mornings work peering over the German lines near Ypres, [Belgium]

Western Theatre, 1919. Creator: George Philip & Son Ltd
Western Theatre, 1919. Map showing the theatre of war in northern France and Belgium during the First World War, 1914-1919

Awaiting the Attack, (1919). Creator: Unknown
Awaiting the Attack, (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: This remarkable photograph of an actual attack by the Germans was taken near Ypres [in Belgium]

Ruined cathedral, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium, c1914-c1918. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

Ypres in ruins, Flanders, Belgium, c1914-c1918. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I (1914-1918)

Battle of Polygon Wood, near Ypres, Flanders, Belgium, World War I, September 1917. British North Country troops attacking a German lair

Ligy, garden suburb for working people, built at Ypres, Belgium, by the ORD, 1926. From The Architectural Forum Volume XLIV [Rogers and Manson, New York, 1926]

The battered remains of Ypres after the last shell had done its worst, showing the ruins of the famous cloth hall, c1917, (1935)

Hooge Crater Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium, World War I, c1917-c1918. Artist: Nightingale & Co
Hooge Crater Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium, World War I, c1917-c1918. Hooge is a village that was located within the Ypres salient during the First World War

Ruins of the cathedral, Ypres, Belgium, World War I, c1914-c1918. Artist: Nightingale & Co
Ruins of the cathedral, Ypres, Belgium, World War I, c1914-c1918. The cathedral was badly damaged during the German bombardment of 1914. Stereoscopic card detail

Damaged graves, old communal cemetery, Ypres, Belgium, World War I, c1914-c1918. Artist: Nightingale & Co
Damaged graves, old communal cemetery, Ypres, Belgium, World War I, c1914-c1918. Stereoscopic card detail

The Main Road, Hill 60, Belgium, World War I, c1914-c1918. Artist: Nightingale & Co
The Main Road, Hill 60, Belgium, World War I, c1914-c1918. Constructed of railway sleepers on baulks of timber. Hill 60 was a low rise on the southern flank of the Ypres salient

Sappers and miners at work, Ypres salient, Belgium, World War I, c1915-c1917. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Sappers and miners at work, Ypres salient, Belgium, World War I, c1915-c1917. Digging a tunnel under Hill 60. Hill 60 was a strategically important high point on the southern edge of the Ypres

Houses damaged by German shellfire, Ypres salient, Belgium, World War I, c1914-c1918. The site of threee major battles during the war

Ruins of Ypres, Flanders, Belgium, World War I, c1914-c1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Ruins of Ypres, Flanders, Belgium, World War I, c1914-c1918. Ypres was on the front line for most of the war and was the site of three major battles

Holding the line at Dickebusch, Flanders, Belgium, World War I, 7 June 1917. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Holding the line at Dickebusch, Flanders, Belgium, World War I, 7 June 1917. Before the assault on Messines Ridge. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Attending to the wounded on the Menin Road, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium, World War I, c1914-c1918. During stiff fighting around Zonnebeke

The battle around the village of Gheluvelt, Flanders, Belgium, World War I, c1914-c1918. Gheluvelt is near Ypres, the site of three major battles during the war. Stereoscopic card. Detail

British troops advancing through gas, Passchandaele, Ypres, Belgium, World War I, c1914-c1918. Stereoscopic card. Detail

14th century ramparts and Lille Gate, Ypres, Belgium, World War I, c1914-c1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
14th century ramparts and Lille Gate, Ypres, Belgium, World War I, c1914-c1918. The area around Ypres was the site of three major battles during the war. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Giving water to a wounded pal, Hooge, Ypres, Belgium, World War I, 1914-1918. Artist: Realistic Travels Publishers
Giving water to a wounded pal, Hooge, Ypres, Belgium, World War I, 1914-1918. Allied soldiers beside a shattered German block house. Stereoscopic card detail

The Town Hall and Cloth Hall, Ypres, Belgium, c1900 (1914-1915). Artist: John Benjamin Stone
The Town Hall and Cloth Hall, Ypres, Belgium, c1900 (1914-1915). From The Studio Volume 63. [The Offices of the Studio, London, 1914-1915]

Canada, Ypres, April 23-24 1915, (1920). Artist: Bernard Partridge
Canada, Ypres, April 23-24 1915, (1920). A cartoon that originally appeared in Punch. Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914-1918

Ypres after German bombardment, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920)
Ypres after German bombardment, Belgium, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War 1914-1918

The tower of Market Hall after a German bombardment, Ypres, Belgium, First World War, (1920). Illustration from The Illustrated War Record of the Most Notable Episodes in the Great European War

A Chlorine Gas Attack, Second Battle of Ypres, Belgium, 1915, (1926). Artist: Lucien Jonas
A Chlorine Gas Attack, Second Battle of Ypres, Belgium, 1915, (1926). On 22 April 1915 the Germans released 168 tons of chlorine gas over a four mile front, in the first gas attack of the war

The Kings Regiment (Liverpool), Second Battle of Ypres, Belgium, 22 April-25 May 1915. The second Battle of Ypres was the only major offensive launched by the Germans on the Western Front in 1915

German prisoners of war, Ypres, Belgium, 1914. Germans captured during the First Battle of Ypres (October-November 1914)

The Belfry and Cloth Hall of Ypres, Belgium, 24 November 1914. The magnificent medieval Cloth Hall was damaged by German shellfire during the First Battle of Ypres (14 October-22 November 1914)

The English drive back the Germans at the Ypres front, Belgium, 11 November 1914, (1926). Close quarter fighting during the First Battle of Ypres

A German Aviatik aircraft photographed in flight by a Belgian aviator, Ypres, Belgium, 1916

Allied command post on Mount Kemmel near Ypres, Belgium, 23 April 1918. The Germans would take this position during their Spring Offensive over the next few days

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