First Battle of Ypres

The First Battle of Ypres took place in the fall of 1914. More than 250,000 people were killed. It was one of the battles of the First World War. It was fought on the Western Front around Ypres, in West Flanders, Belgium. The allied forces were 4,400,000 strong, the German Empire was 5,400,000 strong. In 2003, Beckett recorded 50,000–85,000 French casualties, 21,562 Belgian casualties, 55,395 British losses and 134,315 German casualties.

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  German and Allied operations, Artois and Flanders, September–November 1914
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  Battle of Langemarck, from 21 to 24 October 1914
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  Battle of Gheluvelt (1 November 1914)
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  Fanciful painting of the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Nonne Bosschen, defeating the Prussian Guard, 1914 (William Wollen)
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  Langemark, October 1914
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  After the First Battle of Ypres, trenches stretched from Switzerland to the Belgian coast
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  German soldiers in a trench at Ypres, December 1914