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Fifth Army Opens Pilckem Ridge Attack

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1917Date range
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1917

Hubert Gough31 July 1917

Flanders · Warfare / World War, 1st

Gough's Fifth Army opens the Third Ypres offensive with the attack on Pilckem Ridge.

Names involved

Hubert Gough

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