In summer 1917 Warburg was commissioned to serve as an officer in the Royal Artillery and was stationed in the Ypres area until the end of the war.

The level of activity can be gauged by the fact that during 1917 and 1918, more people lived underground in the Ypres area than reside in the town today.

The League paid for seven of these markers to be erected in the Ypres area.

He was born at Half Way Tree, Kingston, Jamaica and died at Zillebeke, Belgium in the Ypres area of fighting in the First World War.

On 8 August, Raney was posted to 66 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps, then operating at Estreé Blanche in the Ypres area.

Heavy bombardments of the Ypres area prior to attack had, however, highlighted a singular danger: to the north it was largely reclaimed marshland and once the drainage system was destroyed by artillery fire, it quickly reverted to bog.

Davidson and the Liverpool Scottish spent much of 1914 and 1915 in trenches in the Ypres area.

The battalion moved to the Ypres area, where it formed part of the 15th Brigade, 5th Division.

An account by Captain Wurtzburg, 2/6th Liverpool Rifles, described the conditions endured by soldiers in the Ypres area:

When these headquarters closed in 1999, the unit decided to move the stone, as part of a new memorial, to the Ypres area.