Battle of Passchendaele (/ˈpæʃəndeɪl/), was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire. The battle took place...
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The First Battle of Passchendaele took place on 12 October 1917 during the First World War, in the Ypres Salient in Belgium on the Western Front. The...
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The 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...
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the Battle of Passchendaele Passiondale (album), an album by God Dethroned Second Battle of Passchendaele, a constituent battle of the Battle of Passchendaele...
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focuses on the experiences of a Canadian soldier, Michael Dunne, at the Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, inspired by stories...
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of poison gas by the German army. Around 100,000 casualties. Battle of Passchendaele (31 July – 10 November 1917) also known as the Third Battle of Ypres...
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Passendale (redirect from Battle of the Mud)
(Beeldenstorm) of 1580. Passchendaele Ridge 60 m (200 ft) gives its name in common parlance to a battle of the First World War, officially the Third Battle of Ypres...
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New Zealand Division (category Divisions of New Zealand in World War I)
the Battle of Passchendaele (also known as the Third Battle of Ypres). Haig wanted Passchendaele Ridge in British hands by winter through a series of limited...
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Canada in World War I (redirect from The Great War (battle honour))
commander. The highpoints of Canadian military achievement during the Great War came during the Somme, Vimy, and Passchendaele battles and what later became...
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The Passchendaele Museum (until 2022 known as Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917) in Zonnebeke, Belgium, is a museum devoted to the Battle of Passchendaele...
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Passchendaele was a battle honour awarded to units of the British and Imperial Armies that took part in one or more of the following engagements in the...
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Third Battle of Flanders (11 July – 10 November 1917) - The Battle of Passchendaele/Third Battle of Ypres, an Anglo-French offensive Fourth Battle of Flanders...
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63rd (Royal Naval) Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
Second Battle of the Scarpe Battle of Arleu Second Battle of Passchendaele Action of Welsh Ridge Battle of St. Quentin First Battle of Bapaume Battle of The...
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Francis Pegahmagabow (category Political office-holders of Indigenous governments in Canada)
the Second Battle of Passchendaele. During the fighting, Pegahmagabow's battalion was given the task of launching an attack at Passchendaele. By this time...
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Wellington museum in March 2008. In preparation for the Second Battle of Passchendaele, as early as the 17 October, assault units were given all available...
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Autumn 1916 and the Battle of Arras in April 1917 before taking part in the Battle of Passchendaele in Autumn 1917, the Battle of the Lys in April 1918...
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Ypres (1914), the Battle of the Somme (1916), the Battle of Arras (1917), and the Battle of Passchendaele (1917). During the Battle of Fromelles on 19–20...
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Shell shock (section Committee of Enquiry report)
their brain would shut out all the traumatic memories. By the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, the British Army had developed methods to reduce shell...
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April–May 1917. He also took part in the Battle of Passchendaele in late 1917 before finishing the war as chief of staff of the 47th (2nd London) Division. In...
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Harry Patch (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
June 1917. He fought on the Western Front at the Battle of Passchendaele (also known as the Third Battle of Ypres) and was wounded, when a shell exploded...
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Hugh McKenzie (VC) (category Canadian World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross)
his actions during an attack that took place during the Second Battle of Passchendaele in October 1917. McKenzie was born in Liverpool, in the United...
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Some Desperate Glory (category Personal accounts of World War I)
sector and then moved up in late July to Ypres at the start of the Battle of Passchendaele. The diary was published posthumously in 1981 by Henry Holt...
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Canadian Corps (category Corps of the British Army)
Second Battle of Passchendaele: October 26 – November 10 Battle of Amiens: August 8–11 Second Battle of the Somme: August 21 – September 2 Battle of the...
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Western Front (World War I) (redirect from Western Front of World War I)
than a million casualties, and the Battle of Passchendaele, in 1917, with 487,000 casualties. To break the deadlock of the trench warfare on the Western...
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ninth on Bellevue Spur and part of the main Passchendaele ridge gained a little ground at prohibitive cost. Heavy swathes of barbed wire still girdled the...
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starred in Passchendaele, a film written and directed by Paul Gross about the Battle of Passchendaele. Passchendaele accounted for half of 2008's box...
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Land mine (section Invasion of Ukraine)
Scots against the English at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, and by Germans at the Battle of Passchendaele in the First World War. A more easily deployed...
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David Lloyd George (redirect from David, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor)
had to reluctantly approve Field Marshal Haig's plans for the Battle of Passchendaele, which resulted in huge casualties with little strategic benefit...
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Harold Ackroyd (category British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross)
Battle of Passchendaele. Ackroyd was born on 18 July 1877 in Roe Lane, Southport, Lancashire to Ellen and Edward Ackroyd. His father was chairman of the...
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Tyne Cot (category Battle of Passchendaele)
recorded the names of officers and men of New Zealand who fell in the Battle of Broodseinde and the First Battle of Passchendaele October 1917 and whose...
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