Battles of the Ypres Salient

The Ypres Salient

Battles

The Ypres Salient The Ypres Salient Map Battles Ypres/Ieper Poperinge Museums Cemeteries Accommodation 1914-1918 Reference The Western Front The Ypres Salient Second Battle of Ypres The Somme War Graves Tracing relatives Resources & Links Bibliography Remembering Poppy Umbrella Hear Last Post 'In Flanders Fields' Armistice Day in Ypres Flanders Memorial Poppy Gardens of Remembrance Interpretations Poems About the site Who we are Rembrella		First Battle of Ypres, 1914
		19 October - 22 November 1914
		Capture of Hill 60, 1915
		17 - 22 April 1915
		Second Battle of Ypres, 1915
		22 April - 25 May 1915 Battle Study The main feature of the site is a detailed study of The Second Battle of Ypres, which took place in the northern sector of the Ypres Salient. It began on 22nd April 1915 as a surprise offensive on the Allied front line by the German 4th Army. On that day the sunny spring afternoon was suddenly shattered with a devastating and frightening new development in modern warfare: poisonous gas. Map and Timeline Windows The story of the gas attack is told from both the Allied and the German sides of the wire. With the aid of Map and Timeline windows, 3D maps and previously untranslated material this study offers fascinating details of the battle.
		Battle of Messines, 1917
		7 - 14 June 1917
		Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele), 1917
		31 July - 10 November 1917
		Battle of Ypres, 1918
		28 September - 2 October 1918
		Acknowledgements Photograph 1: IWM neg. no. 5941. Photograph by kind permission of the Imperial War Museum Department of Photographs Copyright Joanna Legg & Graham Parker © 2002 All rights reserved