- William Of Ypres
William of Ypres styled count of Flanders,(circa 1090 - 24 January 1164/5), was King Stephen of England's chief lieutenant, during the English civil wars of 1139-54 known as the Anarchy. He commanded a contingent of Flemish soldiers. He claimed the county of Flanders on the death of Charles the Good on 2 March 1126/7. He was made Earl of Kent in 1141 by king Stephen, for his service, (but never styled as such,) and deprived of the title by King Henry II in about 1155. - Yves Leterme
Yves Camille Désiré Leterme is an incoming Belgian Senator, a former Minister-President of Flanders and Flemish Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. Yves Leterme is favourite to become the next prime minister of Belgium following the 2007 Belgian General Election. He tendered his resignation as Flemish Minister-President on June 26, 2007, and has been succeeded in that position by Kris Peeters. - Reginald Blomfield
Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield (20 December 1856-27 December 1942) was a British architect, garden designer and author. Reginald Blomfield was born in Nymet Tracey, Devon, son of the local clergyman. He was educated at Haileybury school and at Exeter College, Oxford. His uncle, Sir Arthur Blomfield, was an architect and Blomfield followed him into the profession, training first under his uncle, then at the Royal Academy in London, … - Cornelius Jansen
Cornelius Jansen, often known as Jansenius (October 28, 1585-May 6, 1638) was Catholic bishop of Ypres and the father of the religious movement known as Jansenism. - Edmund Blunden
Edmund Charles Blunden, MC (November 1, 1896 - January 20, 1974), although not one of the top trio of English World War I writers, was an important and influential poet, author and critic. Born in London, Blunden was educated at Christ's Hospital, a famous public school in Sussex, and later at Queen's College, Oxford. In 1915, he was commissioned as an officer into the Royal Sussex Regiment, and served with them right up to the end of the war, … - Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister (19 October 1886- 19 January 1963) was a sergeant in the British Army during World War I who received the Victoria Cross for his actions at the Third Battle of Ypres, Belgium on October 9, 1917. Lister was a native of Stockport, and served in the 1st Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers. He earned his medal for storming two machine gun posts and capturing 100 enemy troops. Lister was 30 years old, and a sergeant in the 1st Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers, … - Paul Nash
Paul Nash, (11 May 1889 - 11 July 1946) was an English war artist. - Piet Chielens
Piet Chielens was born in Reningelst in 1956. He is coordinator of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres (Ieper) in Belgium. He is also artistic director of "Vredesconcerten Passendale" ("Passchendaele Peace Concerts"). He is co-author, with Julian Putkowski of "Unquiet Graves / Rusteloze Graven Guide: Execution Sites of the First World War in Flanders". - Jacob van Artevelde
Jacob van Artevelde (c. 1290 - 1345), also known as the Wise Man and the Brewer of Ghent, Flemish statesman and political leader, was born in Ghent of a wealthy commercial family. He married twice and amassed a fortune in the weaving industry. Artevelde rose to prominence during the early stages of the Hundred Years' War. Fearful that hostilities between France and England would hurt the prosperity of Ghent, … - Roy Brown
Francis Roy Brown (born September 13, 1896 in Stockton, Manitoba; died November 30, 1960) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1953 to 1958. Brown was educated in Winnipeg. He enlisted in the Clyde Corps at the beginning of World War I, and served overseas in France, seeing action at Ypres, Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele. Brown joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917, … - William Boyd
William Boyd CC (June 21, 1885 - March 10, 1979) was a Scottish-Canadian pathologist, academic, and author known for his medical textbooks. Born in Portsoy, Scotland, he received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1908. During World War I, he was with the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in Flanders. In 1916 he wrote the book, "With a Field Ambulance at Ypres". - Dave Gallaher
David Gallaher (30 October 1873-4 October 1917) was a New Zealand rugby union footballer, best known as the captain of "The Originals", the first New Zealand national team to be known as the All Blacks. Born in Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland, Gallaher's family emigrated to New Zealand in 1878. Originally settling in Katikati in the Bay of Plenty, they moved to Auckland in the 1890s and it was there that Gallaher played his provincial rugby. - William Hope Hodgson
William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. Despite a career cut short by his death at the age of 40, he produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. - John Hardy
John Hardy is an English-born composer who has been commissioned by the Arts Council/National Lottery, the BBC, Welsh National Opera and the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, among others. Based for most of his working life in Wales, and honoured to be regarded as a Welsh composer by many Welsh people, he won a BAFTA Cymru award in 1994 for the multi-award-winning, and Oscar-nominated film "Hedd Wyn", about a Welsh poet, Elis Ifans, … - Jules Malou
Jules Edouard Xavier Malou (19 October 1810 - July 1886) was a Belgian statesman, a leader of the clerical party. He was born at Ypres. He was a civil servant in the department of justice when he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies by his native constituency in 1841, and was for some time governor of the province of Antwerp. He was minister of finance in the coalition ministry of Jean Baptiste, … - Renaat Landuyt
Renaat Julien Landuyt (born January 28, 1958 in Ieper) is a Belgian socialist politician and the current Minister of Transport in the federal government. He is a member of the SP.A. Renaat Landuyt became a licentiate in law in 1982 and has been an attorney since then. He was first elected to the Belgian House of Representatives in 1991, where he served until 1999. From 1995 to 1999 he served as a quaestor of the House. - Nicholas Lens
The multi-disciplinary artist Nicholas Lens is a contemporary Belgian author, composer and <small>(recently as well)</small> director.<br /> "Nicholas Lens" <small>"(sometimes credited as Nicolas Lens or Nicolas Lenz)"</small> was born in Ypres, a small provincial town near the French border in Flanders, Belgium. His godfather taught him violin when he was five. He studied trumpet and double-bass, first at local academies and then at Royal conservatories. - Lewis McGee
Lewis McGee VC (13 May 1888 -13 October 1917) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 29 years old, and a Sergeant in the 40th Battalion (Tasmania), Australian Imperial Force during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 4 October 1917, east of Ypres, Belgium, … - John Lynn
John Lynn (VC, DCM)(1887-3 May 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was about 28 years old, and a private in the 2nd Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 2 May 1915 near Ypres, Belgium, … - Talbot Mercer Papineau
Talbot Mercer Papineau, MC (25 March 1883-30 October 1917) was a lawyer and soldier from Quebec, Canada. Born in Montebello, Quebec, he was the son of Louis-Joseph Papineau (grandson of the Patriote leader Louis-Joseph Papineau). However, Papineau was brought up a Protestant and had American roots. His mother, Caroline Rogers, was born in an influential family from Philadelphia. His upbringing was mainly in English. - Frederick Birks
Frederick Birks VC, MM (31 August, 1894-21 September, 1917) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 23 years old, and a Second Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion (Victoria), Australian Imperial Force during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. - Jonathan Blondel
Jonathan Blondel (born April 3, 1984, Ypres) is a Belgian football midfielder who currently plays for Club Brugge. Blondel started his career at Royal Excelsior Mouscron, before signing to the English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur on August 7, 2002. Unfortunately for Blondel, his time at White Hart Lane was not as active as expected, and after only two substitute appearances he left for Bruges on January 28, 2004. - Thomas Barratt
Thomas Barratt (5 May 1895-27 July 1917) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 22 years old, and a private in the 7th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 27 July 1917 north of Ypres, Belgium, … - William Kenny
William Kenny was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 34 years old, and a Drummer in the 2nd Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 23 October 1914 near Ypres, Belgium, … - Walter Peeler
Walter Peeler VC, BEM (1887- 1968) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 30 years old, and a lance-corporal in the 3rd Pioneer Battalion, Australian Imperial Force during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC: :On 20 September 1917, east of Ypres, Belgium, … - Clement Robertson
Clement Robertson (15 December 1890- 4 October, 1917) was born at Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and was a South African recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 26 years old, and an acting Captain in The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, British Army, Special Reserve, … - Francis Aylmer Maxwell
Brigadier General Francis Aylmer Maxwell VC, CSI, DSO & Bar (7 September 1871 - 21 September 1917) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Maxwell was 28 years old, and a Lieutenant in the Indian Staff Corps, Indian Army, … - Berlinde de Bruyckere
Berlinde De Bruyckere is an artist based in Ghent. She specialises in sculpture in various media including wax, wood, wool, horse skin and hair, though she also works in watercolour and gouache. Her work typically deals with issues of loneliness, pain and death, and since the early 1990s many of her major works have featured structures involving blankets. Their use is symbolic both of warmth and shelter, … - Erik Vermeulen
Erik Vermeulen is a Belgian jazz pianist, born in Ieper in 1959. He entered the Belgian jazz scene when he was 22 with his trio. At the time, it featured Heyn Van de Geyn on bass and Dré Pallemaerts on drums. Soon after that, he started performing with different jazz bands and musicians including the Frank Vaganée Quartet, Erwin Vann Quartet and Peter Hertmans. He performed with international stars like Slide Hampton, Clark Terry, Joe Lovano, Steve Grossman, … - Hugh Colvin
Hugh Colvin VC (February 1, 1887- September 16, 1962), born in Burnley, Lancashire was, by birth, an English UK recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 30 years old, and a Second Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. - Henk Lauwers
Henk Lauwers is a classical baritone singer (<small>lyric baritone / "Baryton-Martin</small>"), born in Ypres, Belgium in 1956.<br /> As a very young boy-soprano "Lauwers" performed under direction of Benjamin Britten his War Requiem. - Isaac Delahaye
Isaac Delahaye was born January 9 1982 in Ypres, Belgium and is the lead guitarist for the Dutch death metal band God Dethroned. He replaced former guitarist Jens after he left in 2004. Delahaye has been with the band since June 29, 2004. - Catherine Verfaillie
Catherine Verfaillie , director of the Stem Cell Institute and professor of medicine, announced plans last week to return to her alma mater, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, by the end of 2006. Beginning this summer, she will lead efforts to form a stem cell institute at Leuven and a long-term scientific affiliation with the U. She will remain director of the U Stem Cell Institute in the interim. - James McIlroy
James McIlroy, full name James Archibald McIlroy (March 11, 1879 - July 30 1968) was a British surgeon and a member of Ernest Shackleton's crew on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1916). He was born in Ulster, Ireland on November 3, 1879. After McIroy earned his medical degree at Birmingham University, he was for a brief time a surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. - Simona Noorenbergh
Sister Simona Noorenbergh (sometimes credited as Simona Noorenberghe, Simona Noorenberg, or Maria Noorenberghe) was one of the founders of the small mountain village Fane in Central Province, Papua New Guinea. She was born in Ypres, Belgium in 1907 as Maria Noorenberghe but was known in Papua New Guinea as "sister Simona". - Fred Greaves
Fred Greaves (16 May 1890 - 11 June 1973) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Fred was born in Killamarsh a town in norh-east Derbyshire in 1890. He was 27 years old, and an Acting Corporal in the 9th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), … - Frederick Harold Tubb
Frederick Harold Tubb VC (28 November 1881-20 September 1917) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 33 years old, and a lieutenant in the 7th Battalion (Victoria), Australian Imperial Force during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 9 August 1915 at Lone Pine, … - Dennis George Wyldbore Hewitt
Dennis George Wyldbore Hewitt (18 December 1897-31 July 1917) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 19 years old, and a Second Lieutenant in the 14th Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment (later The Royal Hampshire Regiment), … - Harry Banks
Harry Banks, born 16 March, 1896 in Yorkshire, England (although other sources suggest that his name was "Harry Band" and that he was born in Montrose, Scotland in August, 1885), was an Allied soldier serving in the Canadian Army who may have been crucified with bayonets or combat knives on a barn door or a tree, while fighting on the Western Front during World War I. Three witnesses said they saw an unidentified crucified Canadian soldier near the battlefield of Ypres, … - Ernest Albert Egerton
Ernest Albert Egerton VC (10 November 1897 - 14 February 1966) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 19 years old, and a Corporal in the 16th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), …
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