Yser Front
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The Yser Front, sometimes termed the West Flemish Front in British writing, was a section of the Western Front during World War I held by Belgian troops from October 1914 until 1918. The front ran alo
Depiction of the Yser Front by the Belgian artist Georges-Émile Lebacq (1917)
Machine gunner and rifleman in firing position in a Belgian trench on the Yser front.
Bomb launcher in action at post N°4 in Diksmuide.
Battlefront in Flanders in 1914
Battle of the Yser
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The Battle of the Yser was a battle of the First World War that took place in October 1914 between the towns of Nieuwpoort and Diksmuide, along a 35 km stretch of the Yser River and the Yperlee Canal,
Yser Front
…Ieperlee) in the far north-west of Belgium and defended a small strip of the country which remained unoccupied. The front was established following the Battle of the Yser in October 1914, when the Belgian army succeeded in stopping the German advance after months of retreat and remained largely static for the duration…
Depiction of combat between Belgian and German forces
Belgian soldiers pictured during the retreat towards Antwerp in August 1914
Fall of Antwerp and the Allied retreat, 1914
Captains of the French Fusiliers marins at the Yser