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2nd Grenadiers, 1914-1918 (474 words) |
 | By mid October, the 2nd Grenadiers had taken up positions east of the Yser River and canal at the village of Ramskapelle, between the cities of Nieuport and Dixmude. |
| The Yser front began to stabilize as the flooding prevented the Germans from launching further assaults and the thrust of the German attacks began to focus on Ypres and the British forces there. |
| Following the battle of Yser, the 1st and 2nd Regiments of Grenadiers were once again reunited into a single regiment due to the enormous losses sustained by both in the course of the battles leading to the end of the battle of Yser. |
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Battles Of Ypres And The Yser - LoveToKnow 1911 (17836 words) |
| Reserve Corps succeeded in throwing a temporary bridge over the Yser, in the bend N. of Tervaete, and in passing over to the western bank infantry and machine-guns, while their artillery were brought close up to the stream to cover the advance of strong reinforcements. |
| The battle of the Yser, strictly speaking, was over, and the plan of the German Higher Command, to seize the Channel ports and envelop the Allied left flank, had failed thanks to the heroic resistance of the French and Belgian troops. |
| The little river Steenbeke (or Jansbeke as it is called in its lowest reaches) joining the Yser near Merckem, creates together with its tributary streams, nearly all of which join it on the right bank, a feature that proved of considerable tactical importance during the prolonged operations that followed. |
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