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    The Yser Front (French: Front de l'Yser, Dutch: Front aan de IJzer or IJzerfront), sometimes termed the West Flemish Front in British writing, was a section...
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    Diksmuide, along a 35 km (22 mi) stretch of the Yser River and the Yperlee Canal, in Belgium. The front line was held by a large Belgian force, which halted...
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    03167°N 2.85333°E / 51.03167; 2.85333 The Yser Towers (Dutch: IJzertoren) are a monument complex near the Yser river at Diksmuide, West Flanders in Belgium...
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    The Yser (US: /iːˈzɛər/ ee-ZAIR, French: [izɛʁ]; Dutch: IJzer [ˈɛizər] ) is a river that rises in French Flanders (the north of France), enters the Belgian...
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    Yser Front and by now a part of the main Western Front, until 1918, a fact that provided a propaganda coup to the Belgian forces on the Western Front...
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    Ieperlee (redirect from Yser Canal)
    It linked the Ypres Salient, held by the French and English, to the Yser Front, held by the Belgian Army (see Dodengang). Bollaerbeek Zillebeek Wikimedia...
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    of Belgium was occupied but the Belgian Army held their lines on the Yser Front throughout the war. This allowed Belgium to be treated as an Ally, in...
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    (22 mi) length of West Flanders along the coast, known as the Yser Front, along the Yser and the Ieperlee from Nieuwpoort to Boezinge. Meanwhile, the British...
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    Battle of the Yser and was defended by soldiers of the Belgian Army. As part of the Yser Front, it played a key role in preserving the front line in this...
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    (2016). "The hydrogeology of the military inundation at the 1914–1918 Yser front (Belgium)". Hydrogeology Journal. 24 (2): 521–534. Bibcode:2016HydJ.....
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    to command the Belgian Army along a section of the Western Front, known as the Yser Front, through West Flanders from his headquarters in Veurne. The...
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    didn't have any differences with the French but with the English". On the Yser Front, where German and Belgian troops faced each other in December 1914, a...
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    part of Diksmuide. During World War I, Pervijze was situated near the Yser Front and was destroyed. Two British nurses, Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm...
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    July 1914. With the outbreak of World War I, he fought in battles along the Yser River, near Ostende. In 1916, he volunteered for service in Central Africa...
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    German invasion of Belgium (1914) (category Western Front (World War I))
    Ypres. Three French battalions released from the Yser front by the inundation of the ground around the Yser, were sent south and on 31 October the British...
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    the Kingdom of Belgium in exile was the strip of territory behind the Yser Front. In October 1914, the government moved to the French coastal city of Le...
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    to United Kingdom while King Albert I remained in Belgium behind the Yser Front. In 1915 Prince Charles began attending Wixenford School in Wokingham...
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    Western Front had stabilised into static trench warfare. Following the Battle of the Yser in October, the Belgian army remained entrenched along the Yser Front...
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  • the treatment of the Flemish within the Belgian Army fighting on the Yser Front during World War I, especially concerning the perceived inequality of...
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    English Startpage of Nieuwpoort - Alle site's binnen Nieuwpoort Illustrated Article on Nieupoort & the Yser Front during WW1 at 'Battlefields Europe'...
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    First Battle of Ypres (category Battles of the Western Front (World War I))
    their opponents. North of Ypres, the fighting continued in the Battle of the Yser (16–31 October), between the German 4th Army, the Belgian army and French...
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  • published by Flemish Movement sympathisers within the Belgian Army on the Yser Front, complaining about official discrimination against Dutch language (Details)...
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    Army Division in the Steenstrate section of the Yser Front. During an inspection of his troops at the front in September 1915, he was severely wounded by...
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    Fifth Battle of Ypres (category Battles of the Western Front (World War I))
    Division The remaining Belgian infantry divisions protected the inundated Yser Front from Clercken to the sea 4th Division 2nd Division 5th Division Belgian...
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  • 2nd Regiment of the Line [fr]. He served with the Belgian army on the Yser Front and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 1916. After being hospitalised...
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    in an attack on the hamlet of Stampkot, near Steenstrate [nl], on the Yser Front in the night of 25–26 March 1917, aged 21 and 19 respectively. In the...
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    On 16 October 1914 the Battle of the Yser began, leading to four years of battles in the trenches on the Yser front. On 6 March 1918, the 2nd ChCh was able...
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    after World War II. In World War I Daye served in the Belgian Army on the Yser Front and in East Africa. In 1918 he published a book about his experiences...
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  • experience. After the war, Alfred Bastien painted a grand Panorama of the Yser Front in 19th century tradition, a project which he had been planning since...
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    It linked the Ypres Salient, held by the French and English, to the Yser Front, held by the Belgian Army. Because of its location close to the frontline...
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