The graves at a cemetery outside the Belgian town of Mons hold the remains of both the first and last British soldiers to fall in World War I. The Saint Symphorien site is less well-known than larger ...

Less visited than the more famous Ypres, this atmospheric Belgian city is a monument to the outnumbered BEF’s first great battle William Cook writes about travel in continental Europe for The ...

Father David Donkin made a promise to his two grandfathers before they died that he would return to the Belgian city of Mons, where they fought at the end of the First World War. He kept his promise, ...

Hundreds of thousands of young men died in World War One and, a century on, their deaths still touch the lives of their families. The first British soldier to die was Private John Parr who was 17 when ...

The Saint Symphorien site is less well-known than larger memorials like those around Ypres in Belgium or Vimy and Verdun in the battlefields of France. But it has become a symbol of the sacrifice of ...