Tracing your Great War ancestors : a guide for family historians. Ypres
Fowler, Simon2015
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Do you have an ancestor who served at Ypres in the First World War, during the four years in which the city was in the front line? Perhaps you have thought of visiting the battlefields nearby and the monuments that commemorate them, and want to find out exactly where your ancestor served and what part he played in the four great battles that took place there? So many British soldiers served in Flanders during the long struggle to defend the Ypres Salient and to break out of it that there is a good chance that your ancestor was there at some stage of the war. This practical and informative handbook is an ideal guide to the struggle for the city and the stories of the men who took part in it.
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Barnsley : Pen & Sword Family History, 2015.
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160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781473823709 (pbk)
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English
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BRN:
1136672
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