A member of the Irish parliament has laid a wreath at a Flanders peace park on the centenary of the World War One Battle of Ypres. Frank Feighan, from the governing Fine Gael party, laid the green ...

The centenary of the Battle of Messines Ridge, where unionist and nationalist soldiers from Ireland fought side by side in the trenches, is to be marked by a joint UK-Irish ceremony. The event will ...

A dig is set to begin to uncover Britain's last remaining model of one of World War One's bloodiest battlefields. Surviving soldiers from the Battle of Messines Ridge in 1917 made the mock battlefield ...

"Gentlemen, I don't know whether we are going to make history tomorrow, but at any rate we shall change geography" and at 3.10am, on 7 June 1917, Major-General Harington's press briefing became ...

A national commemoration to mark the heavy price paid by New Zealand troops at Messines a hundred years ago will be streamed online tomorrow so all Kiwis can pay their respects to the 700 who died in ...

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