The 2nd Battle of Ypres

April to May, 1915

Belgium

This was the first battle in which the Germans used chemical

weapons on a large scale along the

Western FrontYpres

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“The First German Gas Attack at Ypres”, 1918William Roberts

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"In Flanders Fields“

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

  We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields.

  Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with those who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields."

Battle of the Somme, France

July, 1916

Somme

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General Douglas Haig

“Battle Trench at the Somme”, 1919Mary Riter Hamilton