Flanders Fields

Flanders Fields

:"For the article about the war poem, see In Flanders Fields. For the book by Leon Wolff, see In Flanders Fields. The 1917 Campaign."

Flanders Fields is the generic name of the World War I battlefields in the medieval County of Flanders. At the time of World War I, the county no longer existed but corresponded geographically to the Belgian Flemish Region and the French Nord-Pas-de-Calais region. The name is particularly associated with the battles of Ypres, Passchendaele, and the Somme. For much of the war, the front line ran continuously from south of Zeebrugge, Belgium, to the Swiss border with France. Canadian Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote a poem, In Flanders Fields, inspired by his service during the 2nd Battle of Ypres.


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