• Thumbnail for Battle of Passchendaele
    was a flourishing market garden. Ypres is 66 ft (20 m) above sea level; Bixschoote 4 mi (6.4 km) to the north is at 28 ft (8.5 m). To the east the land is...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Langemarck (1917)
    Army. The French First Army had a big success on the northern flank from Bixschoote to Drie Grachten (Three Canals) and the British gained a substantial amount...
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  • Thumbnail for First Battle of Ypres
    north, by the 17th Division, 18th Division and 31st Division recaptured Bixschoote and Kortekeer Cabaret. Advances by Armeegruppe Fabeck to the south-west...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Pilckem Ridge
    prepared near Bixschoote which was repulsed at 5:00 p.m. I Corps had reached a line from Gouverneur Trench to Smiske Cabaret, around Bixschoote, ferme Cuirassiers...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Armentières
    Armentières–Bixschoote, 1914...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Messines (1917)
    was a flourishing market garden. Ypres is 66 ft (20 m) above sea level; Bixschoote 4 mi (6.4 km) to the north is at 28 ft (8.5 m). To the east the land is...
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  • Thumbnail for Werner Voss
    ceiling at 2,700 meters (8,900 feet) altitude, and crossed the lines over Bixschoote at 2,400 meters (7,900 feet). McCudden later noted there were lower scattered...
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  • Siegfried Sudhaus (9 July 1863 in Treptow an der Rega – 22 October 1914 near Bixschoote, Belgium) was a German classical philologist, known for his scholarly...
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  • Thumbnail for 43rd (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
    ranges from 3,100 yards (2,800 m) to 4,500 yards (4,100 m) from its OP in Bixschoote Church. During the subsequent Battle of Langemarck 40th (H) Bty's forward...
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  • Thumbnail for List of World War I memorials and cemeteries in Flanders
    were practically annihilated in the fields in front of Langemarck and Bixschoote by Haig's cool and skilled fifteen-rounds-per-minute professionals, This...
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  • Thumbnail for Winter operations 1914–1915
    down the Menin road and small gains were made at Klein Zillebeke and Bixschoote. Joffre ended attacks in the north, except at Arras and again requested...
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  • Thumbnail for Eingreif division
    French repulsed the Germans around St Janshoek and followed up to capture Bixschoote. Counter-attacks in the afternoon by the Stellungsdivisionen on the southern...
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  • Triplane s/n 103/17 Caudron two-seater s/n G.6 from Escadrille 53 Shot down Bixschoote Maréchal des logis Jacques Thabaud-Desthouilieres and Lieutenant Marcel...
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  • the region of West-Cappel. 6–16 October Occupation of a sector north of Bixschoote and Langemark (together with the British Army) : 9 October, offensive...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles-Philippe de Patin
    born in Ypres in 1663. His father was Pierre de Patin (Dadizele, 1660 – Bixschoote 1735), who held the titles of Lord of Langemarck, Shaepweide, Ter Beke...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Poelcappelle
    south of the inundations and advanced to the west of Wijdendreft and Bixschoote. On 1 August, the 51st Division on the left flank had captured ground...
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  • 23 January 1917 p.m. Royal Aircraft Factory FE.8 No. 41 Squadron RFC Bixschoote, Belgium 7 26 January 1917 Sopwith 1½ Strutter No. 45 Squadron RFC Recham...
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  • nationality 29 18 November 1917 1415 hours Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 Bixschoote, Belgium 30 29 November 1917 1205 hours Observation balloon Bapaume, France...
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  • August 1917 1005 hours Royal Aircraft Factory RE.8 No. 9 Squadron RFC Bixschoote 6 1 September 1917 0815 hours Sopwith Camel Zonnebeke, Belgium 7 4 January...
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  • Thumbnail for Capture of Westhoek
    defensive positions behind the front line. The Albrechtstellung ran from Bixschoote in the north, behind Pilckem Ridge and south across the Gheluvelt Plateau...
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  • Thumbnail for Gheluvelt Plateau actions, July–August 1917
    defensive positions behind the front position. The Albrechtstellung ran from Bixschoote in the north, southwards behind Pilckem Ridge and across the Gheluvelt...
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