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Fifth Battle of Ypres
Part of the Western Front of the First World War

Map of the final Allied offensives on the Western Front, 1918
Date28 September – 2 October 1918
Location
Ypres, Belgium to Ghent, Belgium
50°54′1″N 3°1′16″E / 50.90028°N 3.02111°E / 50.90028; 3.02111 (Passchendaele (Passendale))
Result Allied victory
Belligerents
Belgium Belgium
Fifth Battle of Ypres United Kingdom
Fifth Battle of Ypres France
Fifth Battle of Ypres Newfoundland
Fifth Battle of Ypres German Empire
  • Fifth Battle of Ypres Bavaria
    Fifth Battle of Ypres Prussia
Commanders and leaders
Belgium King Albert I
Belgium Cyriaque Gillain
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Herbert Plumer
French Third Republic Jean Degoutte
German Empire Erich Ludendorff
German Empire Crown Prince Rupprecht
German Empire Sixt von Armin
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]

  1. ^ Nicholson 2007, p. 481.
  2. ^ Edmonds & Maxwell-Hyslop 1993, p. 57.

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