The Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, sometimes called "Battle of the Menin Road", was the third British general attack of the Third Battle of Ypres in the First World War. The battle took place from 20
A British Vickers machine gun crew during the battle
An Australian Battalion have tea and food in the first support trench on the evening before the battle on Westhoek Ridge, 19 September 1917
The British front line and the German defences in the area east of Ypres, mid-1917
German troop dispositions opposite 1 ANZAC Corps, 1 Sept 1917.
Battle of Pilckem Ridge
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The Battle of Pilckem Ridge was the opening attack of the Third Battle of Ypres in the First World War. The British Fifth Army, supported by the Second Army on the southern flank and the French 1reArm
Battle of the Menin Road Ridge
…fire. The new guns allowed the equivalent to one artillery piece for every 5 ft (1.5 m) of the attack front, more than double the density in the Battle of Pilckem Ridge. Few German concrete pill-boxes and machine gun nests had been destroyed during earlier preparatory bombardments and attempts at precision bombardment…
British stretcher bearers carrying a wounded man over deep mud near Boesinghe
British 18-pounder field gun battery near Boesinghe, taking up new positions, 31 July
Drei Grachten bridgehead, Flanders, 1917