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
Battle of Poelcappelle
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The Battle of Poelcappelle was fought in Flanders, Belgium, on 9 October 1917 by the British Second Army and Fifth Army against the German 4th Army, during the First World War. The battle marked the e
Street corner in Poelcappelle
Ypres area, Autumn, 1917
Allied forces and objectives at the Battle of Poelcappelle