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  • Like ourselves, moreover, our Allies in defending the Yser, that is to say the road to Calais, display fanatical courage.

    The Diary of a French Army Chaplain Felix, Klein 1915

  • On the other side of the Yser was the Diocese of Thérouanne, which bordered

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Happily, the "Yser," the State boat that had left Davis, Fairbairn, and

    An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918

  • On the "Yser" I found Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Crane, both Southerners, who were returning to the United States after eight years at service at one of the American Presbyterian Mission Stations.

    An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918

  • During the autumn rush of the Battle of the Yser we had so overflowed our borders that we were obliged to take in two small class-rooms, scattering straw thickly on the floor in lieu of mattrasses.

    Excerpt from a War Nurse's Diary: The Operation-Theatre Victoria Janssen 2009

  • During the autumn rush of the Battle of the Yser we had so overflowed our borders that we were obliged to take in two small class-rooms, scattering straw thickly on the floor in lieu of mattrasses.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Victoria Janssen 2009

  • No wonder, poor devils, for they were coming back from the Yser or the

    Greenmantle 2005

  • And although the Flemish pilgrimages to the Yser began in 1920, as I noted, the first memorial tower there was not inaugurated until 1930.

    How Flemish Is It? Tritter, Daniel F. 2001

  • German boat attack along Yser Canal; Germans are leaving Alsace.

    The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 Various

  • Dec. 1 -- Germans prepare for new dash toward the sea; cold is depleting the British ranks; Germans on the Belgian coast are suffering from famine, disease, and cold; battle on the Yser renewed; Germans are active north of Arras.

    The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 Various

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