Ypres (the Salient)
Belgium
Mentioned: 1916, 1918
Ypres / Belgium Sector A Belgian city and the surrounding battle zone: one of the most fought-over areas of the entire war. Robertson's company moves into this sector by April 1916. During the Battle of the Lys, April 1918, the British pull back to the old defensive ramparts of the city itself: a friend's report that reaches Robertson as "back to the ramparts at Ypres."
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1918
- 19 April 1918… lunch on his way to Boulogne. – Watt (12th Co’y) in this aft. – Fergie says we are back to the ramparts at Ypres. – The bosch now has Wulverghem so I guess old “Ring 35” is being used. – Funny that the …