Battle of Passchendaele, September 1917 in the Great War

Battle of Passchendaele, September 1917 The Battle of Passchendaele, (Third Battle of Ypres), fought during the Great War from 31 July to 10 November 1917. The battle took place on the Ypres salient on the Western Front, in Belgium, where German and Allied armies had been deadlocked for three years. By early September, Sir Douglas Haig under political pressure from London to halt the offensive, but refused. In September, Australian and New Zealand (ANZAC) divisions thrown into the fight alongside worn out British forces. Despite some limited gains, the result nearly the same: Allies would bombard, assault and occupy a section of enemy ground, only to be thrown back by the counterattacking Germans. After British, Australian and New Zealand troops launched failed assaults, the Canadian Corps joined the battle on 26 October. The Canadians captured the ridge on 6 November, despite heavy rain and shelling that turned the battlefield into a quagmire. Nearly 16,000 Canadians killed or wounded, almost exactly the numbers Sir Arthur Currie had predicted. CEFRG (Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group) https://cefrg.ca