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Battle in World War I (1914)
Answer for the clue "Battle in World War I (1914) ", 5 letters:
ypres
Alternative clues for the word ypres
- Belgian town, to a Frenchman
- Battlefield in Normandy preserved
- An Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders
- Belgian city in W.W. I fighting
- Battles to unwrap birthday present
- Battle scene when belittled US leader breaks agreement
- Belgian city in 1917 headlines
- City of laces
- Canadian battlefield, WW1
- Belgian battleground: W.W. I
Usage examples of ypres.
The intelligence officer noted the report of the sergeant who had led the raid, noted too that it would be nice to talk to the occupant of No 41 Ypres Avenue at some later date.
All the boys in Ypres Avenue threw stones at the soldiers, and it would have been almost impossible to have been uninvolved.
Later that night four men had arrived at the far end of Ypres Avenue to the rioting, and the word had spread fast that the kids should get off the streets.
The time that he was away preparing for London, in the linglish capital, and then hiding in Northern Ireland before coming back to Ypres Avenue was the longest he had ever been away from his family.
The army in Ardoyne reported no known entries or departures at the house in Ypres Avenue.
With the efficiency of tribal tomtoms word passed over the sprawling urban conglomeration that the terraced house in Ypres Avenue had been raided.
They stood alone in the street away from the people of Ypres Avenue, with the bodyguards and troops giving them room to talk.
The message had been framed by the Under Secretary, Ministry of Defence, with an eye to the political master's taste, and the order in which he would read of the events in Ypres Avenue had been carefully thought out.
More and more British troops were pouring into the town down the road from Dixmude and Ypres and at the latter place a fierce battle was said to be raging.
William of Ypres has mentioned me to the queen, and would have taken me among his officers, but I’d rather stay with FitzRobert’s English than go to the Flemings.
Whether they were seen on the move, or whether some townsman betrayed them — for they’re not loved in Winchester — however it was, William of Ypres and the queen’s men closed in on them when they’d barely reached the edge of the town, and cut them to pieces.
William of Ypres cut them to pieces outside the town, and the remnant fled into the nunnery and shut themselves into the church.
For though the raiding party from Winchester had been either wiped out or made prisoner, and William of Ypres had withdrawn the queen’s Flemings to their old positions ringing the city and the region, this place was still within the circle, and might yet be subjected to more violence.