Today has an important significance because on the 19 October 1914, a savage and bitter battle for the strategic town of Ypres, in western Belgium, was taking place READ MORE HERE
Month: October 2016
First speech of Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen
The first public speech by a young Princess Elizabeth, which was made at the height of the Battle of Britain to the children of the Commonwealth on 13th October 1940
1917 The First Battle Of Passchendaele – The Battle Of The Mud
The first battle of Passchendaele (sometimes called the Third Battle of Ypres) took place on this day, 12 October, in 1917 in the Ypres Salient area of the Western Front. Fought during the First World War, the Allied plan to capture Passchendaele village