A city in northwestern Belgium that played an essential part in the First World War, due to its location along the Germans’ planned invasion path into France. The 1917 Third Battle of Ypres extended out to a number of nearby towns, like Messines and Passchendaele, and a number of the play’s protagonists fought there.
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Ypres Term Timeline in Black Diggers
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Act One
At Ypres in 1917, “Four West Indian ammunition haulers go past” and aboriginal soldier Mick wonders who...
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