Word: ypres
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Field Marshal the Earl of Ypres who, as Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, commanded the British Expeditionary Force in France during 1914 and 1915, underwent a prolonged and serious operation. His ailment was unspecified. A series of bulletins pronounced his condition satisfactory...
...Abbey, the ancient ceremony of "redeeming the sword" was held by the Knights of the Grand Cross of The Most Honorable Order of The Bath, created in 1399 by Henry IV. The ceremony takes place on the installation of new Knights. Ten Knights (Earl Beatty, Earl Haig, Earl of Ypres, Lord Southborough, Lord Chalmers, General Sir William Mackinnon, Sir George Buchanan, Viscount Esher, Sir Joseph Ridgeway, Lord Stamfordham) in plumed caps, wondrously colored robes, wearing massive gold chains and bejeweled stars, offered their swords to the Dean of West minster, and made the vow to "Love the King. Defend...
...Gallishaw, having gone through the Gallipoli campaign as a member of the Newfoundland Regiment, described the hardships of the expedition from first hand experience. "Ypres, considered the worst sector on the Western front, I later learned was a Paradise compared to Gallipoli. In the latter place we were handicapped by the adobe soil, in which only shallow ditches could be dug for shelter. These and our pith helmets were hardly protection against snipers and shrapnel...
...like Galilee has without doubt done more to change the world for the beter, to educate in the highest sense and to make new manhood, than if Christ had built universities, endowed hospitals, donated libraries--all of which would have perished long ago like the cloth-workers hall at Ypres. So, is not the greatest thing college men or any other men can do for Labrador to live out a similar Knighthood there, even if it is only for a few months? I rather fancy Nathan Hale did a good deal for the United States of America...
...personnel and its military efficiency. It served with distinction in the Spanish War, and on the Mexican Border in 1916. As the 105th Machine Gun Battalion of the 27th New York Division, it served in Flanders and in France and participated in every engagement of that Division from the Ypres salient to the breaking of the Hindenburg line between Cambral and St. Quentin, and in the subsequent operations up to the Sambre Canal...