Word: ypres
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When the Belgian surrender fatally exposed their left flank, the British, who were falling back from Arras-Cambrai to Lille, crossed the Lys River to Ypres and formed the east wall of an escape corridor along the Yser Canal to the sea. The flower of their Army, the proud Guards regiments-Coldstream, Grenadier, Welsh, Irish, Scots-had to let their line fold back from the southeast while their artillery and remaining armored units covered the rear...
...Last wide military use of shrapnel against troops was not in the Boer War, 1899-1902, as many Canadian soldiers could testify who came under extensive and persistent shrapnel shelling at Ypres, 1915, 1916, 1917; on the Somme, 1916; at Vimy and in front of Lens, 1916, 1917; before Arras 1917, 1918; before Amiens, 1918; at Valenciennes and Mons...
...Ypres, and on the chalk ridge of Pozi...
...Canadian hamlet entitled to be proudest of the Dominion's expeditionary force is tiny Moosomin, Sask. That place is the birthplace of lean, dour, square-jawed Andrew George Latta ("Andy") McNaughton, 52, distinguished veteran of World War I (wounded at Ypres and Soissons), able artilleryman, chief of Canada's General Staff from 1929 to 1935, past president of Canada's National Research Council (his specialties: electricity and aeronautics), now leader of the first Canadian contingent and probable commander of all subsequent contingents...
...such private undertakings as shops, hotels, garage owners, doctors. Meanwhile, the Belgium Royal Commission on Names and Dialects made haste to appease M. Grammens and all Flemish nationalists. Announced last week was a change of name for hundreds of Belgian towns and villages. Samples: Leuven for Louvain, Ieper for Ypres, Brugge for Bruges, Kortrijk for Courtrai...