Ypres, 1917

Loading up the big shells. During the first and second battles at Ypres, Belgium in 1914 and 1915, more than 200,000 people were killed. During the third battle of Ypres, in 1917, between 400,000 and 800,000 more people were killed. Another 200,000 people died in the fourth battle of Ypres in 1918.

"Soldat und Tod" (Soldier and Death), painted by Hans Larwin in 1917