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    50°43′28″N 2°52′41″E / 50.72444°N 2.87806°E / 50.72444; 2.87806 Ploegsteert (Picard: Ploster) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality...
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    50°44′13″N 2°53′59″E / 50.73694°N 2.89972°E / 50.73694; 2.89972 Ploegsteert Wood was a sector of the Western Front in Flanders in World War I, part...
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    The Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) memorial in Belgium for missing soldiers of World War I. It commemorates...
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    Fusiliers. The battalion was moved to a sector of the Belgian Front near Ploegsteert. For three months, they faced continual shelling, though no German offensive...
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    clay kicking technique. In September, Fowke proposed to dig under the Ploegsteert–Messines (Mesen), Kemmel–Wytschaete (Wijtschate) and Vierstraat–Wytschaete...
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    Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in the Ypres...
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    Tunnelling Company also undertook work on the Catacombs inside Hill 63 at Ploegsteert. There is a memorial to the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company at the...
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  • until running into serious opposition at the Warnave river south of Ploegsteert on 21 August. Fighting here round Soyer Farm continued until the brigade...
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    decline westwards. Further south, is the muddy valley of the River Douve, Ploegsteert Wood (Plugstreet to the British) and Hill 63. West of Messines Ridge...
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    Hackett's name is recorded on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing in Berks Cemetery Extension near Ploegsteert in Hainaut, Belgium. His Victoria Cross...
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