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	Second Battle of Ypres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Second Battle of Ypres was the first time Germany used chemical weapons on a large scale on the Western Front in World War I and the first time a colonial force (Canadians) forced back a major European power (Germans) on European soil, which occurred in the battle of St. Juliaan-Kitcheners' Wood.
		At Second Ypres, the smallest tactical unit in the infantry was a company; by 1917 it would be the section.
		A Third Battle of Ypres, more commonly known as Passchendaele was fought in the autumn of 1917.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_Battle_of_Ypres (1138 words)

	Ypres
		Ypres (Ieper in Dutch) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders.
		In Ypres, is the Menin Gate Memorial to the fallen soldiers of the war.
		On April 22, 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres[?], German troops introduced poison gas one the western for the first time (First time poison gas was used at battle of Bolimow[?] on January 1 the same year.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/yp/Ypres.html (158 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Second Battle of Ypres, 1915
		The Second Battle of Ypres comprised the only major attack launched by the German forces on the Western Front in 1915, Eric von Falkenhayn preferring to concentrate German efforts against the Russians on the Eastern Front.
		Second Ypres is generally remembered today as marking the first use of gas on the Western Front.
		Losses during the Second Battle of Ypres are estimated at 69,000 Allied troops (59,000 British, 10,000 French), against 35,000 German, the difference in numbers explained by the use of chlorine gas.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/ypres2.htm (897 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Special: The Second Battle of Ypres, Apr-1915
		The situation on the eve of battle was that the Canadians had only just been moved up into the front lines and had not become fully oriented to their surroundings.
		The Canadians were withdrawn from the battle on May 3, being relieved by the British.
		Second Ypres proved to be the worst battle the 1st Canadian Division would fight in the course of the war, however its result was the starting point of the strong reputation Canadian troops developed during the war.
	www.worldwar1.com /sf2ypres.htm (2265 words)

	From the Western Front to Salonika - Overview of the Second Battle of Ypres
		During this phase of the battle of Ypres the Germans tried to smash through the front held by the 27th and 28th divisions by using their superiority in guns and ammunition.
		Throughout the battle the Germans were able to use their superiority in artillery to continuously pound the defenders.
		The battle marked the first use of poison gas in warfare for which the British were totally unprepared.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~cjmorton/service/ww1/ypres/overview.htm (930 words)

	War Artists from the First World War: The Battlegrounds
		The battle was notable for the first use of chemical weapons (chlorine gas) by the Germans, and the steadfastness of the Canadians in sealing a significant breach in the lines.
		This well-known corner near the Asylum on the western outskirts of Ypres was, during the greater part of the time that the Canadians held the salient, just within view of a German observation post, and was consequently a place to be avoided.
		The Battle of Ypres did much to establish the reputation of the Canadians as a fighting force and directly gave weight to the national policy of keeping Canadian troops together rather than dispersing them under British command.
	www.archives.gov.on.ca /english/exhibits/war_artists/ypres.htm (1056 words)

	Battle of Ypres
		The most notorious of the battles fought near the small Belgian town of Ypres was that of Passchendaele in 1917 which for many came to epitomize the horror and futility of the Great War.
		In that time Ypres was to witness the first use of gas in warfare at the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915 and the first use of flame-throwers at Hooge.
		The second youngest British casualty of the war, the fifteen year old Private Joe Strudwick is buried here as is Private Barratt VC of the South Staffordshire Regiment.
	www.wartours.com /ysalient.html (1491 words)

	Battle of Ypres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There were four Battles of Ypres during World War I:
		Second Battle of Ypres (April 22 – May 15, 1915)
		Fourth Battle of Ypres (September 28 – October 2, 1918) (also known as the Battle of Ypres 1918)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Ypres (143 words)

	Ypres
		During the First Battle of Ypres (October to November 1914), German forces attempted to outflank the British Expeditionary Force but were thwarted, at great cost, in their "race to the sea".
		The Second Battle of Ypres (April 1915), is notable for the German's use of poisonous gas to support the attempted breakthrough by the German Fourth Army.
		The Third Battle of Ypres (31 July to 10 November 1917) was the major British offensive in Flanders in 1917.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/place_803.asp (121 words)

	World History 1914 -1915
		The Russians were victorious at the Battle of Lemberg and the Austro- Hungarians were forced to withdraw.
		Battles raged across Poland both in the north, around Warsaw, and in the south, around Cracow.
		The Third Battle of Artois was the final part of an ambitious Allied plan to force the Germans out of Northern France.
	www.multied.com /dates/1914.html (1023 words)

	The Second Battle of Ypres
		Throughout the battle he kept pressing on his subordinate General Putz the importance of attempting counter attacks, but with insufficient artillery support none of what seemed to be a number of half hearted attempts came to anything.
		The battle finally came to an end on the 25 May 1915 with the Ypres Salient closer to the town, but with the Allies still hanging on to it.
		The outcome of the 2nd Battle of Ypres was a little like that of the first.
	www.webmatters.net /belgium/ww1_ieper2_7.htm (597 words)

	2nd Battle of Ypres
		Ypres, a medieval town in Belgium, was taken by the German Army at the beginning of the war.
		The 1st Battle of Ypres took place between 15th October and 22nd November, 1914.
		Heavy fighting and frequent gas attacks continued around Ypres until 25th May. The Allied line held, but the German Fourth Army was able to use its new higher positions to bombard the town with heavy artillery.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWypres2.htm (1336 words)

	3rd Ypres, they called it Passchendaele
		Known as the battle of Passchendaele, the third battle of Ypres was the collective name given to campaign that lasted until November 1917 aimed at capturing the Gheluvelt Plateau in southern Belgium.
		In 1917, the area of Flanders to the east of Ypres had great strategic importance because it was dominated by a German occupied ridge from the East to the South of Ypres.
		Haig's plan was to strike out of Ypres to the North and East and, in conjunction with a seaborne landing on the coast of Belgium at Nieuport, he would capture the high ground at Passchendaele which was the key to the whole area.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-battles/ww1/france/3rd_ypres.htm (3459 words)

	Regimental Anniversaries
		This commemorated the fact that both the 1st and 2nd Battalions of The East Surrey Regiment fought in the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915 and that the Regiment won three Victoria Crosses in that battle.
		Ypres was also a battle honour of The Queen’s Royal Regiment, both of whose regular battalions fought there, though only the 2nd battalion was engaged in the Second Battle.
		Ypres Day was celebrated by a holiday and/or a parade and/or a major sporting event at the discretion of the Commanding Officer according to the circumstances at the time.
	www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk /anniversaries/anniversaries.html (535 words)

	Ypres
		With the battle growing at Ypres Sir John French decided to move I corps to Ypres, reinforcing II corps, and so the first battle of Ypres began.
		The Heart of the salient was Ypres, an old town which would soon become no more than a waste land by the end of the war, and on the road out of Ypres towards Menen, stands the
		For the first time poison gas was used in the war against the allied lines north of Ypres, the fleeing battle weary troops were replaced by the fresh 1st Canadian Division, who on encountering another gas attack stood their ground, a trait that was seen on many other fronts by the Canadians.
	www.hellotommy.co.uk /Home/Battlefields/Ypres/body_ypres.html (467 words)

	Source 2 \| Useful notes
		The second battle of Ypres began in April 1915 and lasted until early May. It was one of the largest German attacks on the western front.
		As a result of the battle, the beautiful medieval town of Ypres was reduced to rubble.
		The battle was also famous as the first time that poison gas was used.
	www.learningcurve.gov.uk /greatwar/usefulnotes/g3cs2s2u.htm (235 words)

	The Great War: Second Battle of Ypres, 1915
		The Second Battle of Ypres, as it is known in British military history, encompassed four battles in the northern sector of the Ypres Salient.
		The Prelude describes the build-up to the Second Battle of Ypres.
		The first part of the study of the Battle of Gravenstafel Ridge covers the period from the launch of the German gas attack at 5pm on 22 April through to the situation at the end of the day.
	www.greatwar.co.uk /westfront/ypsalient/secondypres (414 words)

	Western Front Association Contributed Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The British Second Army (Smith-Dorrien), which moved to the left to fill the four-mile gap created by the French, launched several small counterattacks which prevented the Germans from moving forward immediately.
		In reducing the Ypres salient to a flat curve just east of the city, the Germans had achieved their greatest success of the year, although shortages of troops and ammunition had prevented them from making the major breakthrough that could have been achieved.
		In terms of casualties the five-week battle of Ypres was relatively costly, with the heavier British losses (59,000) compared to the Germans (35,000) being explained by the use of poison gas.
	www.westernfront.co.uk /thegreatwar/articles/timeline/ypres2.htm (484 words)

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		Instead, this battle ushered in total war with trench warfare and the use of weapons of horror.
		British troops were confused by this migration, unable to understand the foreigners, but one message was clear by the way they grasped their throats crying "Gaz!" The collapse of the French front left a hole four miles wide.
		The cost of the battle was high with nearly 60,000 British casualties -- mostly due to pigheadedness and clashes of ego.
	grognard.com /info/ypres.txt (924 words)

	Ypres
		On April 22 the guns about Hill 60 to the south of Ypres had rumbled to silence, and the long trench lines stretching north and south of the town were waiting- lazily for something to turn up in the shape of excitement.
		A hint of all the Canadians were enduring had been flashed to the British general, and it was realised that a desperate attempt was being made by the Germans to break the British line.
		And now, at a moment of crisis, when the whole line to the north of Ypres was being shifted slowly backwards, and when it became abundantly clear that the enemy had been tremendously reinforced, and that at least two army corps were confronting the Canadian division, help was to hand.
	www.greatwardifferent.com /Great_War/Ypres/2nd_Ypres_01.htm (1189 words)

	Gallipoli - The First World War - April 1915
		The Second battle of Ypres consisted of about four battles, these took place over about 6 weeks and it was the first use the new German weapon, poisonous gas.
		Soon after, the battle flared up again and the whole of the Ypres front was random fighting; until, on the 24th May the Germans launched another massive gas attack, the allies did manage to fight through it and survive the attack, but only by risking many deaths and tragedy's.
		The Second battle of Ypres was written by Alex Wade, a Year 9 student at Laisterdyke High School.
	www.schoolshistory.org.uk /Year9/firstworldwar/1915/april.htm (603 words)

	Today in Technology History - Apr 22
		Modern chemical weapons were first used in warfare exactly 87 years ago, during the second Battle of Ypres (pronounced EE-pruh) in Belgium.
		About the middle of April [1915], a deserter from the German lines had warned the Allied commander that the Germans were planning to annihilate the defenders of Ypres with poison gas, but the story was dismissed as a visionary tale.
		On the afternoon of April 22d, without further warning, a cloud of greenish-yellow chlorine gas, five miles long, was observed to emit from the German trenches, being slowly wafted by the north wind toward the point where the French and Canadian lines met...
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2002/apr22.htm (415 words)

	In Flanders Fields - Essay II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This, of course, is the second battle of Ypres, or the battle of the Yser, I do not know which.
		The events preceding the second battle of Ypres received scant mention in his letters; but one remains, which brings into relief one of the many moves of that tumultuous time.
		My headquarters were in a trench on the top of the bank of the Ypres Canal, and John had his dressing station in a hole dug in the foot of the bank.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/poetry/InFlandersFields/chap30.html (7437 words)

	second ypres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By late April 1915, the Ypres front once again became the sight of brutal fighting.
		However, the battle soon flared up again and random fighting took place all over the Ypres front.
		By the end of spring, the Ypres front had once again stabilized and the fighting had died down for the time being.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/2354/ypres2.html (255 words)

	The Alderson Family History Society: Roll of Honour 1914-1918 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Second Battle Of Ypres: St Julien, April - May 1915, The 2nd Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers suffered near annihilation during the second battle of Ypres on the 24th of May 1915.
		Knowing the bomb would explode in 4 seconds, and knowing that throwing it from the window would endanger men outside, he carried it to the door where it exploded inflicting fatal injuries on himself, but saving the lives of others in the room.
		Battle of the Somme; Battle Of Mametz Wood:, At 2am after a 35 minute bombardment, 9th Northumberland Fusiliers and 10th Lancashire Fusiliers (52nd Division) with the 10th Sherwood Foresters (51 Brigade) in support, made a night advance on two trences.
	www.afhs.org /honour_g-j.html (1035 words)

	Military History: First World War: Battlefront, 1915-16: Ypres
		The first large-scale gas attack occurred during the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915.
		With the correct wind conditions on 22 April, the Germans launched their combined gas and conventional assault at the Ypres salient (the ridge of land between the opposing trench systems).
		Bearing the brunt of the attack, French colonial troops, choking and disoriented due to the deadly new weapon, panicked and fled in the face of the advancing Germans.
	www.lermuseum.org /ler/mh/wwi/ypres.html (495 words)

	April (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By contrast, the Second Battle of Ypres in World War I, which dragged on for four weeks, culminated in 69,000 dead among the Allies (Canadians, British, French) and 35,000 among the Germans.
		The battle is most famous as the site of the first use by the Germans of a new chemical weapon, chlorine gas.
		Lt.-Col. Edward Morrison, a Canadian officer at Ypres (in the area of Belgium once known as Flanders), recalled, “My headquarters were in a trench on the top of the bank of the Ypres Canal, and John had his dressing station in a hole dug in the foot of the bank.
	www.forgottendelights.com /salute/2004AprilSalute.htm (4751 words)

	Post
		A section of the trenches held by the battalion was badly gassed with cloud gas, and although at this time the gas protectors were very effective, some 70 casualties were suffered, the gas being of a particularly virulent type with delayed action.
		In this battle the battalion had lost all its company officers and the battalion signal officer, and only very few of its "other ranks" were left.
		The fierceness of the battle increased on April 10, and during the day the position became a "key position", and the orders were to hold at all costs.
	www.universalteacher.org.uk /greatwar/post.htm (2798 words)

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