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This was the Allies’ most successful victory during the Passchendaele campaign. The torrential rain of August had been replaced by the unsettled weather of September....

Field Marshal Douglas Haig was feeling apprehensive. The Germans had launched a surprise counter-attack the previous day, and this was set to be the day...

Musketeer Johannes Freytag was captured at Langemarck on 22 September 1917. He was 36 years old. He had gunshot wounds to his left leg which...

Peter Kraus was a non-commissioned officer (NCO) who had been promoted to become a second lieutenant. These promoted NCOs tended to be much older than...

The British had been getting ready for another big push. The weather had been dry enough for paths and tracks to be prepared to transport...

On 27 August 1917 2nd lieutenant and company commander, Otto Figel was captured at Langemarck, a village to the east of the town of Ypres/Ieper....

South-east of Arras, 2nd Lieutenant Wilhelm Dobbek was captured near the village of Bullecourt. Dobbek had been born in Flatow in West Prussia, a town...

On 22 August 1917 two German soldiers were captured who would later be imprisoned at Skipton Camp. Both were captured in Belgium. Private Emil Hückelheim...

2nd Lieutenant Erwin Bartels was captured near the hamlet of Le Catelet near St Quentin in Picardy. He was suffering from a slight bayonet wound...

Promoted non-commissioned officer Friedrich Ibscher was captured at Langemarck on 17 August 1917. He was from Straubing, a small town in the north of Bavaria....