YPRES: Outpost of the Channel Ports
ALL VISITORS TO YPRES SHOULD POSSESS A COPY
Map of Ypres Salient
showing Battle Fronts and Trench Systems
Map and List of Cemeteries in the Ypres Salient
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THE YPRES TIMES
and poignant, yet behind it all we can sometimes catch a glimpse of those in
support, dim figures these, though none more valiant as we picture them praying
amid their darkness, linked imperishably to their menfolk oversea. True, we are
not told; but all who can read beneath bald print can see. Such books as this
appear so seldom that we, and others, are too prone to forget that while vast
battles wrack both man and nature, elsewhere a myriad hearts must endure the
pangs of a vaster Gethsemane. They will not so easily forget this aspect of war
who read these letters. They set one thinking of our stock, our path, of our
standards and our heritage. To quote is not to review; still, Feilding's voice from
the front line towards the end must surely waken many echoes: How strange it
will be when the fighting stops. I am already beginning to look back upon the
last 4} years as a sort of dream, in which there outstands a single tall figure in
blackalways the last to have been seen by me when leaving for the war, and the
first on coming home for leave. I will leave you to guess whose is that faithful,
patient figure."
Too seldom mourned, here lurks war's greatest tragedy: that being a crime,
it is wrought, not by criminals, but by victims. So, since we, on the heels .of the
Victorians, must be arraigned in our turn, may this book in our judges' eyes help
plead our cause.
Geoffrey Fildes,
Late Coldstream Guards.
By BEATRIX BRICE
With a descriptive Foreword by F.-M. Viscount Plumer, G.C.B.
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The Ypres Salient has greatly changed since the War,
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Ypres who see it under its present conditions.
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