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	Battle of Polygon Wood: Australian War Memorial
		The battle of Polygon Wood was the I ANZAC component of a larger British and dominion operation staged as part of the third battle of Ypres.
		This operation was the second of the "Plummer battles", a serious of well-planned, limited advances supported by large volumes of artillery, masterminded by the British general Herbert Plummer.
		Scheduled to begin on 26 September 1917, the attack was almost derailed by a German attack on the British X Corps to the south of I ANZAC.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/event_153.asp (268 words)

	Australian 4th Division (World War I) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In September it participated in the Battle of Polygon Wood.
		In March 1918 the Fourth Division was rushed to the Somme region to stem the German Offensive.
		The Fourth Division went on to fight in the Battle of Hamel, Battle of Epehy (with distinction), Battle of Amiens and the Hindenburg Line, finally reaching the town of Bellenglise.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_4th_Division_(World_War_I) (580 words)

	Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Polygon Wood is a forest located between Ypres and Zonnebeke, Belgium.
		Polygon Wood was a significant battlefield in the Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle for Passchendaele.
		It was captured by the Australian 5th Division on September 26, 1917 during the Battle of Menin Road.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polygon_Wood,_Zonnebeke (98 words)

	Battle of Polygon Wood, 26-27 September 1917
		The Battle of Polygon Wood, 25-27 September 1917, was part of the wider Third Battle of Ypres (First World War).
		It came during the second phase of the battle, in which General Herbert Plumer’s Second Army was given the lead.
		The attack on Polygon Wood was the second of Plumer’s “bite and hold” attacks, after Menin Road and ending with Broodseinde.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/battles_polygon_wood.html (306 words)

	Australian 1st Division (World War I) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1st Division's artillery was in action from the start of the Third Battle of Ypres on 31 July 1917 but the infantry were not called upon until the second phase of the battle commenced on 20 September with the Battle of Menin Road.
		The 1st Division was relieved by the Australian 5th Division before the next assault, the Battle of Polygon Wood (26 September), but in turn took up the advance for the following Battle of Broodseinde (4 October), the third and final of the successful bite-and-hold attacks conceived by General Herbert Plumer of the British Second Army.
		This battle marked the peak of British success during 3rd Ypres and was the end of the 1st Division's involvement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_1st_Division_(World_War_I) (1885 words)

	The battle of Polygon Wood.
		Polygon Wood, near Ypres in Belgium, was captured by the Australian 5th Division on September 26, 1917 during the
		Polygon Wood was named for its shape which is clearly seen on this visitor information sign.
		Although parts of the Division had been present at Bullecourt in April 1917 the attack on Polygon Wood was the 5th Division’s first major battle since it was mutilated during the disastrous attack at Fromelles in July 1916.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-battles/ww1/france/polygon_wood.htm (539 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Third Battle of Ypres, 1917
		Whereas the first and second battles of Ypres were launched by the Germans in 1914 and 1915 respectively, Third Ypres was intended as Sir Douglas Haig’s Allied forces breakthrough in Flanders in 1917.
		The Third Battle of Ypres was opened by Sir Hubert Gough’s Fifth Army, with 1 Corps of Sir Herbert Plumer’s Second Army joining on its right and a corps of the French First Amy led by Anthoine to its left: a total of twelve divisions.
		This was followed by the Battle of Polygon Wood on 26 September and the Battle of Broodseinde on 4 October.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/ypres3.htm (1470 words)

	The Battles
		The Battle at Fromelles, part of the British attack on The Somme, was an unmitigated disaster for Australia.
		The battle of Messines was a prelude to the 3rd battle of Ypres, a bid to capture higher ground before the main offensive.It involved the new Australian 3rd Division, under the meticulous General Monash, as well as the 4th.
		This battle, often referred to as Passchendaele, pitted immense British and Empire firepower against a heavily-fortified German positions in a series of advances in September and October 1917.
	www.ausmil.com /users/anzacs/_the_battles.htm (3179 words)

	The Battles
		The Battle at Fromelles, part of the British attack on The Somme, was an unmitigated disaster for Australia.
		The battle of Messines was a prelude to the 3rd battle of Ypres, a bid to capture higher ground before the main offensive.It involved the new Australian 3rd Division, under the meticulous General Monash, as well as the 4th.
		This battle, often referred to as Passchendaele, pitted immense British and Empire firepower against a heavily-fortified German positions in a series of advances in September and October 1917.
	www.diggerz.org /users/anzacs/_the_battles.htm (3179 words)

	Zonnebeke, Polygon Wood, 5th Australian Division Memorial
		Major Australian participation in the Third Battle of Ypres began on 20 September 1917 at the Battle of Menin Road.
		After success on 20 September, the AIF pushed on, the 5th Division capturing German positions at the Battle of Polygon Wood on 26 September.
		Further along is Polygon Wood with the 5th Australian Division Memorial and the Buttes New British Cemetery.
	www.ww1westernfront.gov.au /polygon_wood/index.html (281 words)

	Bidford-on-Avon WW1 Memorial
		Earnests division were active in 2 battles at the time of his death: Battle of Polygon wood 26th Sept-3rd Oct 1917 and the Battle of Broodsende 4th Oct 1917.
		Although the battle of the Somme was reguarded as over after the capture of Beaumont Hamel in Nov 16 operations in the Ancre valley continued through the winter of 1916/1917.William was a battalion runner and was killed by enemy shell.
		Alberts Battalion 1st Bham South Midlands division, were at the heart of the battle on the Somme in the summer of 1916 until Nov 16.The battalion was involved in the Battle of Guillemont on the Somme.
	www.bidfordwarmemorial.co.uk (1233 words)

	Events-Commemorations-Historical Facts - Australian Embassy and Mission to the EU
		For the AIF, the battle of Passchendaele began on 9 October 1917 when the 2nd Division formed the flank for an attack by the British 66 the Division.
		The second phase of the battle began on 12 October with the 3rd Division and the New Zealand Division attacking side by side.
		The AIF 4th and 5th Divisions were responsible for a 2500-metre sector and one of their main objectives was Polygon Wood Butts, the target on the Ypres district rifle range.
	www.austemb.be /bsls/comhisfacts.html (1455 words)

	21st Division 1914-18 \| (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The battles of 1917 would see a move further north initially with the battle of Arras, conducted by General Allenby's third army and then back to the BEF's old battle ground of Ypres.
		The Battles of 3rd Ypres, more commonly but wrongly known as the battle of Passchendeale would capture the modern imagination, with the rain and mud ending those battles and ingraining the partially true myth that the western front was all mud and rain.
		The division would play significant parts in both of these battles and the subsiduary actions surrounding these and would end the year fighting in the brilliantly started but poorly finished battle of Cambrai.
	www.freewebs.com /armourersergeant/thebattlesof1917.htm (199 words)

	World War One Battles
		The battle is often regarded as demonstrating that the Royal Navy was technologically inferior to the German Navy.
		The Battle of Bazentin Ridge, which ran from 14-17 July 1916 and comprised part of the second phase of the Somme Offensive, was launched primarily by Reserve Army (twelve battalions) with Rawlinson's Fourth Army providing a further battalion, on a front extending from Longueval to Bazentin-le-Petit Wood.
		These battles, and those British and Commonwealth soldiers who gave their lives, are commemorated at the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing, and at the Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in the world with nearly 12,000 graves.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/WW1_Battles2.htm (17855 words)

	Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
		Australian and New Zealand Divisions were involved in a number of the Battles of the Somme, July to November, 1916, while components of British corps but it was only during the Battle of Pozieres[?], 23rd July 1916, that an Anzac formation participated.
		2nd ANZAC (Australian 3rd and 4th Divisions, New Zealand Division plus the British 25th Division) fought in the Battle of Messines[?], July 1917, which was a prelude to an Allied offensive from the Ypres salient.
		At Villers-Bretonneux, in the 1918 First Battles of the Somme, the ANZAC designation ceased to be used to represent an army corps containing Australian and New Zealand Divisions.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/an/Anzac.html (481 words)

	Polygon Wood Ypres 1917
		Named because of its shape, this large wood north-east of Ypres had been used by the Belgian army as a shooting range prior to 1914; a butte existed in the centre of the wood.
		Polygon Wood from the air; a photograph taken in the 1980s by the late John Giles (©John Giles)
		In the 1920s, when this cemetery was made permanent, the walls were built in a Polygon shape to signify the connection with the wood.
	battlefields1418.50megs.com /polygon_wood.htm (621 words)

	Zonebeke: Buttes 5th Australian Division Memorial
		Following the battle for the Menin Road on 20 September 1917, the British 2nd Army halted to consolidate its positions before moving on into Polygon Wood.
		On 26 September 1917 as part of what is generally called the 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) the battle for Polygon Wood was begun.
		The term wood though, needs to be qualified in that nothing remained but blasted stumps of trees with German pill boxes sitting up in the middle of the wreckage.
	www.webmatters.net /belgium/ww1_buttes_aus.htm (798 words)

	CIAOPS World Guides - WWI Australian Battlefields
		This battle was the first in which the Australians encountered German blockhouses which were reinforced concrete shelters concealed with soil and camouflage.
		The battle plan was to proceed in a succession of limited offensives (always covered by artillery) that followed one another at intervals a few days apart.
		The Battle of Polygon Wood meant the capture of the entire wood, the Butte, Tokio Ridge and that part of what the Germans called their Flanderin I Line.
	www.ciaops.com /guides/battle/page2.htm (4664 words)

	Anzacs Battlefield Tour
		Thus, whilst generally known as the Battle of Passchendaele or Third Ypres, the capture of Polygon Wood, the New Zealanders' action on the Gravenstafel and the Australians' capture of Passchendaele Ridge are, strictly speaking, actions which took place within separate battles.
		Polygon Wood had already been the scene of considerable action.
		The Battle of Le Hamel, on 4th July, 1918, lasted barely 90 minutes and was remarkable for the tactics employed which foreshadowed methods later used at Amiens on the German Army's "fl day".
	www.wartours.com /anzacs.html (1819 words)

	Bidford-on-Avon WW1 Memorial
		Earnests division were active in 2 battles at the time of his death: Battle of Polygon wood 26th Sept-3rd Oct 1917 and the Battle of Broodsende 4th Oct 1917.
		Although the battle of the Somme was reguarded as over after the capture of Beaumont Hamel in Nov 16 operations in the Ancre valley continued through the winter of 1916/1917.William was a battalion runner and was killed by enemy shell.Born in Broom resident in Bidford.
		Alberts Battalion 1st Bham South Midlands division, were at the heart of the battle on the Somme in the summer of 1916 until Nov 16.The battalion was involved in the Battle of Guillemont on the Somme.
	www.bidfordwarmemorial.co.uk /index.asp (1192 words)

	1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment:- The Battle of the Menin Road Ridge
		The third battle began on 20th September, the front selected extending from the Ypres-Comines Canal, north of Hollebeke, to the Ypres-Staden railway north of Langemarck.
		The chief interest in the battle, from a regimental point of view, is, however, centred in the 23rd and 1st Battalions, the former (of the 123rd Brigade, 41st Division) attacking the enemy at 6.30 p.m.
		The sector of attack is given next: the 3rd Battalion, 229th R.I.R., from the southern edge of Polygon Wood to the Reutelbach (Reutelbeek), i.e., Veldhoek Trench (called by the Germans the Wilhem Stellung), Carlisle Farm, and the 3rd Battalion, 230th R.I.R., from the stream southwards.
	freespace.virgin.net /howard.anderson/battleofthemeninroadridge.htm (3350 words)

	Buttes New British Cemetery
		The cemetery is located in Polygon Wood, scene of the Australian 5th Division's triumphant attack on September 26th 1917, and many of the men killed in this battle now lie here.
		Many of the Australians buried in this cemetery were killed in the Battle of Menin Road (September 20th-21st 1917), Battle of Polygon Wood (September 26th-28th 1917), Battle of Broodseinde Ridge (October 4th 1917) and Battle of Passchendaele (October 9th-12th 1917).
		After the battle of Polygon Wood his men named one of the pillboxes they captured after him - it still stands in the wood today (click here for more information).
	www.diggertours.com /cems/bel/buttes.htm (275 words)

	490055 Company Sergeant Major Jacob Brooks, Royal Engineers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Following the Battle of Menin Road that lasted from the 20th to the 25th of September, the company left Ypres on the 30th of September and went into line at Lievin, opposite Lens.
		This move was made during the Battle of Polygon Wood, which lasted from the 26th of September until the 3rd of October.
		At Polygon Wood the 59th Division was responsible for the capture of a long line of hostile strong points on both sides of the Wieltje-Gravenstafel Road.
	hometown.aol.com /reubique/490055.htm (2719 words)

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