The Battle of Pilckem Ridge (31 July – 2 August 1917) was the opening attack of the Third Battle of Ypres in the First World War. The British Fifth Army...
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Allied attack (the Battle of Pilckem Ridge, 31 July), the extent to which the French Army mutinies influenced the British, the effect of the exceptional...
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Gun Carrier Mark I (category Self-propelled artillery of the United Kingdom)
Gun carriers were first used in the Battle of Pilckem Ridge (31 July – 2 August 1917) during the Third Battle of Ypres (31 July – 10 November 1917). The...
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Tom Fletcher Mayson (category British Army personnel of World War I)
Commonwealth forces. He was awarded the VC for actions during the Battle of Pilckem Ridge of the Battle of Passchendaele. He was 23 years old, and a Lance-Sergeant...
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Alexander Edwards (category British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross)
his actions at the Battle of Pilckem Ridge on 31 July 1917 on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele. The London Gazette of 14 September 1917 recorded:...
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success gained in the subsequent Battle of Pilckem Ridge. At the Battle of Langemarck there was only an advance of 1,500 yd (1,400 m) around Langemarck...
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Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson (category British World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross)
during the Battle of Pilckem Ridge at Bellewaarde, Belgium which earned him the Victoria Cross. After performing the deed, Colyer-Fergusson died of a gunshot...
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Dennis George Wyldbore Hewitt (category British Army personnel of World War I)
English recipient of the Victoria Cross. He was awarded during an action at Pilckem Ridge at the Battle of Passchendaele. Hewitt was the son of Elizabeth Mary...
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Nivelle offensive (category Battles of the Western Front (World War I))
Dames ridge (the Second Battle of the Aisne). A subsidiary attack was to be made by the Fourth Army (the Third Battle of Champagne). The final stage of the...
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1916, the Battle of Pilckem Ridge in August 1917 and the Battle of Langemarck in August 1917 as well as the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge in September...
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