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The Battle of Langemarck – 16th August 1917 Some historians view the Battle of Passchendaele as a series of discrete attacks punctuated by periods of...

On 15 August 1917 Canadian troops attacked Hill 70 which lay to the north of the town of Lens in northern France. The aim was...

On 12 August 1917 2nd Lieutenant Joachim von Bertrab was shot down over the trenches of northern France. Von Bertrab was a fighter pilot with...

19-year-old Private Albert Stasch was captured near Ypres on 11 August 1917. He was severely wounded with a fractured left leg due to the effects...

31st July 1917 The word Passchendaele has become synonymous with the horror and futility of modern industrial warfare. It conjures up images of exhausted and...

2nd Lieutenant Georg Bach was captured near the village of Hooge which lay a couple of miles or so  from what had once been the...

Lieutenant Hans Carl Schumacher was captured on 30 June 1917 at Péronne in Northern France. Péronne lies close to the site of the Battle of...

Grenadier Paul Liebchen was captured at Avion on 28 June 1917. He had a gunshot wound to his left thigh that was described as slight....

14 June 1917 Musketeer Adolf Mau was captured at Arras in Northern France on 14 June 1917. He was in the 162nd Infantry Regiment. He...