The action of 22 October 1917 was an attack during the Third Battle of Ypres in the First World War by the British Fifth Army and the French First Army against the German 4th Army. British attacks had
Front line 22 October – 6 November
A Sopwith Camel of the type used at the Third Battle of Ypres
German diagram of Württemberg division positions, October 1917
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 attack was part of the Third Battle of Ypres and w
A composite depicting the morning after the First Battle of Passchendaele
Field gun being moved two days before the battle
The British front line and the German defences in the area east of Ypres, mid-1917
Bellevue Ridge by George Edmund Butler