The Fifth Battle of Ypres, also called the Advance in Flanders and the Battle of the Peaks of Flanders (French: Bataille des Crêtes de Flandres) is an...
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The Battle of Ypres was a series of engagements during the First World War, near the Belgian city of Ypres, between the German and the Allied armies (Belgian...
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Battle of Ypres (German: Dritte Flandernschlacht; French: Troisième Bataille des Flandres; Dutch: Derde Slag om Ieper), also known as the Battle of Passchendaele...
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The Ypres Salient, around Ypres, in Belgium, was the scene of several battles and a major part of the Western Front during World War I. Ypres lies at...
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First Battle of Ypres, a battle fought during the Race to the Sea Second Battle of Flanders (21 April – 25 May 1915) - The Second Battle of Ypres Third...
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First Battle of Ypres (French: Première Bataille des Flandres, German: Erste Flandernschlacht, 19 October – 22 November 1914) was a battle of the First...
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small promontory on the edge of the Ypres Salient, with good views for the Germans across the British lines into Ypres, which gave it great tactical...
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six divisions of the French Sixth Army. In the first phase of the offensive, the German 4th Army was defeated in the Fifth Battle of Ypres (28 September...
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Ernest Seaman (category Lives of WWI ID not in Wikidata)
company commander. As part of the 36th (Ulster) Division, Seaman's battalion was engaged in the Fifth Battle of Ypres, a battle of the Hundred Days Offensive...
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Operation Hush (category History of Ypres)
Operation Hush was intended to begin once the Third Battle of Ypres, the main offensive at Ypres, had advanced to Roulers, Koekelare and Thourout, with...
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HMS Terror (I03) (category World War I monitors of the United Kingdom)
the Zeebrugge raid and provided gunnery support for the Fifth Battle of Ypres in September of the same year. After the war the monitor was attached to...
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Alfred von Böckmann (category Military personnel from the Province of Brandenburg)
corps throughout the war and commanded the Guard Corps during the Fifth Battle of Ypres. Alfred von Böckmann was born on 22 September 1859 in Potsdam. After...
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Louis McGuffie (category British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross)
in attacks on Wytschaete Ridge, near Ypres, as part of the Fifth Battle of Ypres. McGuffie had taken command of a platoon due to its officers becoming...
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Degoutte as Chief of Staff, defeated the German 4th Army in the Fifth Battle of Ypres (28 September – 2 October). The breaking of the Hindenburg Line...
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Hundred Days Offensive (redirect from Second Battle of Noyon)
Second Army and the French Sixth Army), attacked near Ypres in Flanders (the Fifth Battle of Ypres). Both attacks made good progress initially but were...
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The Battle of the Lys, also known as the Fourth Battle of Ypres, was fought from 7 to 29 April 1918 and was part of the German spring offensive in Flanders...
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Black Watch (redirect from Black Watch of the Royal Highlanders Regiment)
– First Battle of Bapaume, Battle of Messines, First Battle of Kemmel Ridge, Second Battle of Kemmel Ridge, Fifth Battle of Ypres, Battle of Courtrai...
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Yser Front (category Military history of Belgium during World War I)
September 1918, in the Fifth Battle of Ypres, the Groupe d'Armées des Flandres ("Flanders Army Group" or GAF), under the command of Albert I with the French...
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Battle of the Scarpe (1918) Battle of Havrincourt Battle of Saint-Mihiel Battle of Epéhy Battle of the Canal du Nord Fifth Battle of Ypres Battle of St...
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Second Battle of Passchendaele was the culminating attack during the Third Battle of Ypres of the First World War. The battle took place in the Ypres Salient...
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X Corps (United Kingdom) (category Corps of the British Army in World War I)
operations after the Battle of Arras. In June 1917 it took part in the Battle of Messines. The corps then participated in the Third Battle of Ypres. In May and...
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Ludwig Erhard (category Grand Crosses 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
leg by an Allied artillery shell on 28 September 1918 during the Fifth Battle of Ypres. Erhard was committed to a military hospital in Recklinghausen,...
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29th Division (United Kingdom) (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
Scimitar Hill Battle of the Somme (1916) Third Battle of Ypres Battle of Cambrai Fourth Battle of Ypres Fifth Battle of Ypres Battle of Courtrai (1918)...
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Belgium in World War I (redirect from Kingdom of Belgium in exile (1914–18))
command of King Albert I of Belgium and his French Chief of Staff General Jean Degoutte. They played an important part in the Fifth Battle of Ypres, in which...
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The Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, sometimes called "Battle of the Menin Road", was the third British general attack of the Third Battle of Ypres in the...
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Friedrich Sixt von Armin (category Grand Crosses of the Military Order of Max Joseph)
25 April 1918, during the Battle of the Lys (Fourth Battle of Ypres), the army captured Messines, Wytschaete and the Ypres bend and stormed the Kemmel...
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Veldhoek, 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from Gheluvelt, at the west end of the main Ypres ridge, which runs from Ypres, east to Broodseinde and then north-east to Passchendaele...
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Race to the Sea (category Military operations of World War I involving Germany)
the mutually costly and indecisive Battle of the Yser from 16 October to 2 November and the First Battle of Ypres from 19 October to 22 November. After...
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night of 30/31 October. On 10 November, Diksmuide fell and the fighting continued further south until 22 November, in the First Battle of Ypres. The Belgian...
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of the German-held French city of Cambrai. In all, 12 Victoria Crosses were awarded for bravery and action during the battle. Fifth Battle of Ypres –...
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