The centenary of the Battle of Messines Ridge, where unionist and nationalist soldiers from Ireland fought side by side in the trenches, is to be marked by a joint UK-Irish ceremony. The event will ...

Up here, on a clear, sunny morning, you can see what the Battle of Messines was all about. This gentle ridge rises near the ancient Belgian town of Ypres. The Flanders plain stretches out below. Sign ...

"Gentlemen, I don't know whether we are going to make history tomorrow, but at any rate we shall change geography" and at 3.10am, on 7 June 1917, Major-General Harington's press briefing became ...

The battle of Wijtschate-Messines in the first World War in June 1917 was the first act in what became known as the third battle of Ypres, a crucial prelude to the main summer offensive on the Ypres ...

A MAJOR joint UK-Irish ceremony has begun in Belgium to mark the centenary of a First World War battle where unionist and nationalist soldiers from Ireland fought side by side in the trenches. The ...

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Britain's Prince William have laid wreaths at the foot of the Round Tower memorial as part of the centenary commemorations for the Battle of Messines Ridge in Belgium. They ...

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 278th installment in the series. The abject failure of the Nivelle Offensive in April 1917 triggered ...