Word: ypres
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...February, 1917 Col. Cabot definitely took over the unit which had increased from five hundred and forty to three thousand beds. By far the larger number of the patients were British and Canadians who had been wounded in the fighting around Ypres. At one time, during the German offensive of March, 1918, twelve hundred patients were received by the unit within twenty-four hours...
Last Saturday we heard of the Germans on Kemmel Hill, of Ypres almost certainly lost, and the enemy storm heavy over the Channel ports. Today we read of a British Cabinet Minister warning his countrymen against a coming peace offensive. And yet the week that is gone has witnessed no Waterloo, no battle of the Marne, though it may be that Von Arnim's defeat between Ypres and Locre may be discovered some day to have borne a much greater significance than the very considerable importance we attach to it now. What we are witnessing today in the spirit...
...British are not a phrase-making people and their stubborn defence of Ypres has not been illuminated by a slogan, like "They shall not pass," the battlecry at Verdun which set France aflame. But in a less spectacular way their struggle around the ancient Flanders town symbolizes the British tradition in the war as the struggle for the Douamont and Vaux fortresses and Dead Man's Hill symbolizes the tradition of the French. It was at Ypres in November, 1914, that the British regulars, the "Old Contemptibles" of the gallant first expeditionary force, stemmed the German attack...
...been killed in action in Flanders on March 30. Harvard, who is the second of his family to lay down his life for England, enlisted in 1915 immediately after receiving his degree, and was once wounded in his first year of service. Since then he has distinguished himself at Ypres and later at Cambral, where he commanded King's Company in the attack near Fontaine Notre Dame...
Harvard leaves a wife and a young son, Peter. His younger brother, Kenneth, was killed in the British advance near Ypres last August...