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7 June 2017: Joint British-Irish ceremony to mark centenary of Battle of Messine, Island of Ireland Peace Park, Belgium
On 7 June 2017 the Island of Ireland Peace Park marks the centenary of the battle of Messines, on the Western Front. This was a preliminary engagement intended to prepare the way for a much wider Allied offensive in and around the Belgian city of Ypres (Ieper) in the summer of 1917; the objective was…
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