According to the In Flanders Fields museum in Ieper (Ypres), more than 13,000 Irishmen died in Belgium in the first World War. Almost all of those who died did so in the 13 miles of front in Ypres salient in Flanders. “Defend Catholic Belgium,” Irishmen were told and so they did. Dublin Lord Mayor Nial Ring (left), Helen McEntee TD, and Jan Peumans, speaker of the parliament of Flanders, burying soil from Flanders as a memorial to Irishmen who died there. The buglers of Royal Ypriana wind band from Ypres, Belgium, at the opening of the Flanders Fields Memorial in Dublin.

Source: The Irish Times April 30, 2019 18:33 UTC