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1–10 October: 35,000 including 13,000 missing. The Battle of Poelcappelle was fought in Flanders, Belgium, on 9 October 1917 by the British Second Army and Fifth Army against the German 4th Army, during the First World War. The battle marked the end of the string of highly successful British attacks in late September and early October, during ...
The Battle of the Somme ( French: Bataille de la Somme; German: Schlacht an der Somme ), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the upper ...
I expected the article to note that this was the costliest battle of the war for New Zealand. There has been a couple of books produced over there in recent years, Glyn Harper's Massacre at Passchendaele : the New Zealand story (2000) and Andrew Macdonald's Passchendaele: The Anatomy of a Tragedy (2013).
Action of 22 October 1917. Action on the Polderhoek Spur. Night action of 1/2 December 1917. Second Battle of Passchendaele. Passchendaele (battle honour) Passchendaele (film) Passchendaele Canadian Memorial. Battle of Pilckem Ridge. Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke.
The battle of Bakhmut was a major battle between the Russian Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces for control of the city of Bakhmut, during the eastern Ukraine campaign, a theatre of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [9] It is regarded by military analysts to be the bloodiest battle since the end of World War II.
English: The Battle of Passchendaele, July-november 1917 Battle of Poelcappelle. Royal Engineers taking drums of telephone wire along a duckboard path up to the front between Pilckem and Langemarck, 10 October 1917.
Mystery of Celtic Wood. The Mystery of Celtic Wood refers to the apparent disappearance without trace of 71 men of the 10th Battalion of the 1st Australian Division during a diversionary attack on German positions in Celtic Wood, near Passchendaele in West Flanders, during the Battle of Poelcappelle (9 October 1917) in the First World War.
