The Battle of Kitcheners' Wood was fought during World War I during the Second Battle of Ypres. The name of this oak plantation derived from the French...
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Russell Lambert Boyle (category Canadian military personnel of the Second Boer War)
beginning of the First World War, to his death. Boyle led the 10th Battalion in their first battle on 22 April 1915, the attack on Kitcheners' Wood. He was...
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commemorations. The Calgary Highlanders commemorate the Battle of Kitcheners' Wood with an annual freedom of the city parade. In some countries, such as the United...
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Canadian Expeditionary Force (category Military history of Canada)
experience and success in battle from the Second Battle of Ypres, through the Somme and particularly in the Battle of Arras at Vimy Ridge in April 1917, and Passchendaele...
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James Cleland Richardson (category Canadian Battle of the Somme recipients of the Victoria Cross)
known as Kitcheners' Wood in the dark of night. In what became known as the Battle of Kitcheners' Wood, Richardson set out among a group of 50 men who...
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Calgary Highlanders (category Infantry regiments of Canada)
honorary distinction on their uniform, commemorating the counterattack at Kitcheners' Wood. On 9 January 2015, the regiment was recognized with the Canadian Forces'...
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Winnipeg Light Infantry (redirect from 91st Winnipeg Battalion of Light Infantry)
leadership during the attack on Dodu Wood, 8 August 1918, while serving with the 43rd Battalion, Cameron Highlanders of Canada. The citation states: "During...
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The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme; German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First...
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in the early part of the First World War. Kitchener was credited in 1898 for having won the Battle of Omdurman and securing control of the Sudan, for which...
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The Battle of Omdurman was fought during the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan between a British–Egyptian expeditionary force commanded by British Commander-in-Chief...
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