A to Z Challenge – Y is for

Ypres – though the lads who went there tended to call it Wipers.

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Next year will be the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Great War – a conflict that finally put paid to the notion that war was glorious and buried it under a crossroads with a stake through its heart.

My little town did its best to play its part and sent a battalion of young men. They arrived on the front line to take part in the assault upon the Ypres Salie...