Wipers

One only of Rye's gates is standing -- the Landgate; but on the south rampart of the town is the Ypres Tower (called Wipers by the prosaic inhabitants), a relic of the twelfth century, guarding

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

"'No Way,' the first song we recorded, has a total Wipers vibe, if the Wipers were a No Wave band."

Stereogum 2009

'No Way,' the first song we recorded, has a total Wipers vibe, if the Wipers were a No Wave band.

Spacelab - Independent Music and Media 2009

"'No Way,' the first song we recorded, has a total Wipers vibe, if the Wipers were a No Wave band."

Angry Ape 2009

"Wipers" hadn't been any garden of roses early in the war, but it was paradise now compared with the Somme.

A Yankee in the Trenches Robert Derby Holmes

"Eéps" was the word that went up and down the line, that being the Flemish pronunciation of Ypres, (in French pronounced "Eé-pr" and in Tommy's English, "Wipers").

The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride

Henceforth it was "Wipers" for me, although I learned that "Eeps" and

Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army James Norman Hall 1919

Surely, surely while English is spoken the story of "Wipers" will live on for ever and, through the coming years, will be an inspiration to those for whom these thousands went, cheering and undismayed, to meet and conquer Death.

Great Britain at War Jeffery Farnol 1915

So, amidst this pandemonium our car lurched into shattered "Wipers", past the dismantled water-tower, uprooted from its foundations and leaning at

Great Britain at War Jeffery Farnol 1915

Ypres, the British soldiers "Wipers," was the scene of much of the bloodiest fighting of the war.

History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War Richard Joseph Beamish 1895