Fifth Battle of Ypres | |||||||
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Part of the Western Front of the First World War | |||||||
![]() Map of the final Allied offensives on the Western Front, 1918 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
28 divisions | 16 divisions | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
British: 4,685 Belgian: 4,500 Newfoundland 15[1] |
10,000 POW 300 guns 600 machine guns |
The Fifth Battle of Ypres, also called the Advance in Flanders and the Battle of the Peaks of Flanders (French: Bataille des Crêtes de Flandres) is an informal name used to identify a series of World War I battles in northern France and southern Belgium (Flanders) from late September to October 1918.[2]
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