Depiction of the Yser Front by the Belgian artist Georges-Émile Lebacq (1917)
The Yser Front (French: Front de l'Yser, Dutch: Front aan de IJzer or IJzerfront), sometimes termed the West Flemish Front in British writing, was a section of the Western Front during World War I held by Belgian troops from October 1914 until 1918. The front ran along the Yser river (IJzer) and Yser Canal (Ieperlee) in the far north-west of Belgium and defended a small strip of the country which remained unoccupied. The front was established following the Battle of the Yser in October 1914, when the Belgian army succeeded in stopping the German advance after months of retreat and remained largely static for the duration of the war.
Machine gunner and rifleman in firing position in a Belgian trench on the Yser front.Bomb launcher in action at post N°4 in Diksmuide.
The YserFront (French: Front de l'Yser, Dutch: Front aan de IJzer or IJzerfront), sometimes termed the West Flemish Front in British writing, was a section...
Diksmuide, along a 35 km (22 mi) stretch of the Yser River and the Yperlee Canal, in Belgium. The front line was held by a large Belgian force, which halted...
YserFront and by now a part of the main Western Front, until 1918, a fact that provided a propaganda coup to the Belgian forces on the Western Front...
03167°N 2.85333°E / 51.03167; 2.85333 The Yser Towers (Dutch: IJzertoren) are a monument complex near the Yser river at Diksmuide, West Flanders in Belgium...
The Yser (US: /iːˈzɛər/ ee-ZAIR, French: [izɛʁ]; Dutch: IJzer [ˈɛizər] ) is a river that rises in French Flanders (the north of France), enters the Belgian...
It linked the Ypres Salient, held by the French and English, to the YserFront, held by the Belgian Army (see Dodengang). Bollaerbeek Zillebeek Wikimedia...
of Belgium was occupied but the Belgian Army held their lines on the YserFront throughout the war. This allowed Belgium to be treated as an Ally, in...
Battle of the Yser and was defended by soldiers of the Belgian Army. As part of the YserFront, it played a key role in preserving the front line in this...
didn't have any differences with the French but with the English". On the YserFront, where German and Belgian troops faced each other in December 1914, a...
(2016). "The hydrogeology of the military inundation at the 1914–1918 Yserfront (Belgium)". Hydrogeology Journal. 24 (2): 521–534. Bibcode:2016HydJ.....
to command the Belgian Army along a section of the Western Front, known as the YserFront, through West Flanders from his headquarters in Veurne. The...
July 1914. With the outbreak of World War I, he fought in battles along the Yser River, near Ostende. In 1916, he volunteered for service in Central Africa...
the treatment of the Flemish within the Belgian Army fighting on the YserFront during World War I, especially concerning the perceived inequality of...
Fransmansmuseum in Koekelare Vladslo German war cemetery Yser Tower, memorial for the soldiers killed on the YserFront during World War I Dodengang, World War I memorial...
Western Front had stabilised into static trench warfare. Following the Battle of the Yser in October, the Belgian army remained entrenched along the Yser Front...
Army Division in the Steenstrate section of the YserFront. During an inspection of his troops at the front in September 1915, he was severely wounded by...
their opponents. North of Ypres, the fighting continued in the Battle of the Yser (16–31 October), between the German 4th Army, the Belgian army and French...
part of Diksmuide. During World War I, Pervijze was situated near the YserFront and was destroyed. Two British nurses, Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm...
published by Flemish Movement sympathisers within the Belgian Army on the YserFront, complaining about official discrimination against Dutch language (Details)...
It linked the Ypres Salient, held by the French and English, to the YserFront, held by the Belgian Army. Because of its location close to the frontline...
after World War II. In World War I Daye served in the Belgian Army on the YserFront and in East Africa. In 1918 he published a book about his experiences...
Fantasio magazine launched a scheme called "front flirtation" offering to initiate links between soldiers at the front and women. Overwhelmed by correspondence...
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in an attack on the hamlet of Stampkot, near Steenstrate [nl], on the YserFront in the night of 25–26 March 1917, aged 21 and 19 respectively. In the...
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