Battle or Action:


The Battles of Ypres 1917 (Third Ypres, or Passchendaele)


  Detail :

 31 July - 10 November 1917. By the summer of 1917 the British Army was able for the first time to fight on its chosen ground on its terms. Having secured the southern ridges of Ypres at Messines in June, the main attack started on 31st July 1917 accompanied by what seemed like incessant heavy rain, which coupled with the artillery barrages conspired to turn much of the battlefield into a bog. Initial failure prompted changes in the high command and a strategy evolved to take the ring of ridges running across the Ypres salient in a series of 'bite and hold' operations, finally culminating in the capture of the most easterly ridge on which sat the infamous village of Passchendaele. The Official History carries the footnote ?The clerk power to investigate the exact losses was not available? but estimates of British casualties range from the official figure of 244,000 to almost 400,000. Within five months the Germans pushed the British back to the starting line, which was where they had been since May 1915.

 Rank Initials Surname Died Lodge
 Capt. A.W. SYKES 30-09-1917 Lodge of Harmony No. 275
 Lt. H.B. THOMPSON 02-10-1917 St John's Lodge of Colombo No. 454
 Lt. F.W. FINN 04-10-1917 Marine No. 232
 2Lt W.W. ODELL MC 04-10-1917 Forward No. 1180
 Cpl. F.W. STOREY 04-10-1917 Coronation No. 2929
 2Lt J.J. VANDOME 04-10-1917 Military Jubilee No. 2195
 Pnr. A.W. GIBSON 05-10-1917 Williamson No. 949
 Capt. J. REDMOND 05-10-1917 Tyrian No. 1628
 Lt. A.W. SKEWES 05-10-1917 Charters Towers No. 1546
 Sgt. A.E. AVERY 06-10-1917 Lodge of Hope No. 2153
 Lt. A.A. STEWARD 06-10-1917 Apollo University No. 357
 Gnr. G.W. BROWN MM 07-10-1917 Townley Parker No. 1083
 Pte. E.B. CAMPBELL 08-10-1917 Endeavour No. 1595
 2Lt C.J. BEACHAM 09-10-1917 Mendelssohn No. 2661
Seymour No. 2804
 Cpl. P. HOLGATE 09-10-1917 Lodge of Harmony and Industry No. 381
 Pte. H.B. HART 09-10-1917 Cathedral No. 2741
 Lt. J.H. LLEWELLYN 09-10-1917 Albert Victor No. 1773
 Capt. A.E. MANDER 09-10-1917 Savile No. 1231
 Cpl. A.W. MOXHAM 09-10-1917 Comrades No. 2740
Eton No. 2458
 Capt. E.F.H. MURRAY MC DCM 09-10-1917 FitzRoy No. 569
 2Lt H.C. ORGAN 09-10-1917 Royal Lebanon No. 493
 Pte. R.A. ROE 09-10-1917 Arboretum No. 731
 Lt. J.C.D. TETLEY 09-10-1917 Charterhouse Deo Dante Dedi No. 2885
 Pte. A.E. BROOKS 10-10-1917 Sanitarian No. 3458
 LCpl. F.W.G. FINCHER 10-10-1917 Swan of Avon No. 2133
 C.Q.M.S. E.H. NICHOLLE 10-10-1917 Fidelity Lodge No. 1659
 Lt.Col. A.W.F. SAYRES LRCP MRCS 10-10-1917 Saint George's No. 112
Sir Francis Drake No. 2649
 Lt. R.G. HILL MC 11-10-1917 Purley No. 3136
 W.O.1 (RSM) M.J. PAYNE MM 11-10-1917 Adam's No. 158
 Lt. C.S. BEACHCROFT 12-10-1917 Charterhouse Deo Dante Dedi No. 2885

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