Day 117 Aug 14 Calais –Ypres (Ieper) Ypres or Ieper (Belgium) The town of Ypres is well known to most Australians as the annual remembrance day focuses often (amongst other places) on Ypres or Ieper as it is locally called. World war one has more meaning in Australia than in the Netherlands as the latter was not involved in this one, however Australia was, and very much so. Many Australians died on the Flanders WW 1 Battlefield and many of them in Ieper...