Today was the beginning of the Advance in Flanders, also known as the Battle of the Peaks of Flanders, or the Fifth Battle of Ypres. Ypres – Ieper to its inhibitants – was out of Greg’s sector, but somehow a couple of remarkable aerial photographs of that poor, shattered city came into his hands.  Precisely when they were … Continue reading Saturday 28 September 1918 – Ypres