The Ypres Times Volume Two (1927-1932)

creation of Henry Beckles Willson and Beatrix Brice. Both Brice and Beckles Willson understood the crucial significance ofYpres to the British Empire, and believed it their sacred duty to maintain the memory of those who had fought and fell in itsdefence. As the League’s journal, the Ypres Times published a huge range of material. It carried reminiscences of veterans,discussions about the rebuilding of Ypres, the developing work of the Imperial War Graves Commission in the salient, and theerection and unveiling of unit memorials. The Ypres Times reproduced for the first time, in facsimile format and bound in threevolumes provides a fascinating insight into the way the British Empire’s central commemorative site was understood andimagined in the twenties and thirties.