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    Battle of Messines (7–14 June 1917) was an attack by the British Second Army (General Sir Herbert Plumer), on the Western Front, near the village of Messines...
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    the Battle of Messines comprised a series of underground explosive charges which were fired during the First World War at the start of the Battle of Messines...
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  • Battle of Messines may refer to: Battle of Messines (1914) Battle of Messines (1917) Battle of Messines (1918) This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    Committee Report of 1922 called the Flanders Offensive of 1917 "The Battle of Messines 1917" (7–14 June) and "The Battles of Ypres 1917" (31 July – 10 November)...
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  • 36th (Ulster) Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
    1916). Battle of Somme 1916 or Battle of Albert Battle of Messines (1917) Battle of Langemarck or Third Battle of Ypres Battle of Cambrai Battle of Saint...
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    Tunnel warfare (category Warfare of the Middle Ages)
    2010-05-17. "First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of Messines, 1917". www.firstworldwar.com. "The Tunnelling Companies RE of 1914-1918". Archived from the...
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    Sacrifice: The Battle of Arras 1917. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 1-84415-326-6. Passingham, I. (1998). Pillars of Fire: The Battle of Messines Ridge,...
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    The Battle of Messines was fought in October 1914 between the armies of the German empire, British empire and France as part of what came to be called...
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  • Richard Nauyokas (category British people of American descent)
    the German front line in an effort to break the stalemate of the Battle of Messines. (1917). Nauyokas appears alongside Tom Goodman-Hill and Andrew Scarborough...
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  • following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually yielding...
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    Mesen (redirect from Messines, Belgium)
    (1914) Battle of Messines (1917) and Mines in the Battle of Messines Battle of the Lys (1918) Church tower from Mesen Sint-Niklaaskerk Messines Ridge British...
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    National Library of Australia, Canberra, pp. 255–314. ISBN 0642107912 Accessed 2 January 2014. "Battles: The Battle of Messines, 1917". Firstworldwar.com...
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  • Eloi (Ypres). Actions of St Eloi Craters Battle of Messines (1917) Mines in the Battle of Messines (1917) List of Canadian battles during the First World...
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    also be found. Saint Peter Church Grave of Major Willie Redmond, killed during the Battle of Messines (1917) Entrance to the Locre No.10 Cemetery "Locre...
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    Hill 60 (Ypres) (category Military history of Belgium during World War I)
    of underground fighting until June 1917, when they were fired along with the rest of the mines under Messines Ridge at the beginning of the Battle of...
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    Sam Gloade (category Canadian recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal)
    Canadian Engineers. Sam was in the Battle of Messines (1917). He reported: Late that afternoon the German artillery on Messines Ridge began to shell our trench...
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    June 1917 won an overwhelming victory over the German Army at the Battle of Messines, which started with the simultaneous explosion of a series of mines...
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    three kilometres (2 mi) on a six-kilometre (4 mi) front, and capturing Messines. The 25th Division to the south, flanked on both sides, withdrew about...
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    Spanbroekmolen (category 1917 in Belgium)
    Battle of Messines [permanent dead link] (Dutch) Messines Ridge photo essay Map of the mines in the Battle of Messines Map of the mines in the Battle...
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  • that 86% of critics have been positive with the film based on 14 reviews, with an average score of 7.14/10. Mines in the Battle of Messines (1917) Hill 60...
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    Watch. The 42nd Battalion received the following battle honours: First World War: Messines, 1917; Ypres, 1917; Polygon Wood; Broodseinde; Poelcappelle; Passchendaele;...
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    The Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial is a World War I memorial, located in Messines Ridge British Cemetery, near the town of Mesen, Belgium. The...
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    Mines on the Italian front (World War I) (category Explosions in 1917)
    the first day of the Somme (1916) were constructed in a chalk and flint area and where e.g. the mines in the Battle of Messines (1917) were constructed...
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    Battle of the Somme, and reaching a zenith in the mines in the Battle of Messines which were exploded on 7 June 1917 at the start of the Third Battle...
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    Otto von Stetten (category Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class)
    hold its positions. On the morning of 21 May 1917, the British Second Army initiated the Battle of Messines (1917) with a massive bombardment with over...
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    1st Australian Tunnelling Company (category Engineering units and formations of Australia)
    and 1st Australian Tunnelling companies as part of the prelude to the Battle of Messines (7–14 June 1917), while the British 183rd, 2nd Canadian and 2nd...
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    October, took place mainly north of the Lys, when the battles of Armentières and Messines merged with the Battles of Ypres. Attacks by the BEF (Field...
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  • 4th Light Horse Regiment (Australia) (category Mounted regiments of Australia)
    the Battle of Messines, the Third Battle of Ypres, the Battle of Broodseinde, the Battle of Passchendaele, the Battle of the Lys, the Battle of Kemmel...
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    16th (Irish) Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
    ISBN 0-7165-2495-3. Battle of Hulluch Battle of the Somme (1916) Battle of Guillemont Battle of Ginchy Battle of Messines (1917) Third Battle of Ypres Irish National...
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    colours of each nation's Battle dress differed. Canadian Battle dress had since World War II been more green than the British, and New Zealand Battle dress...
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