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

German diagram showing the new front line after the 2nd Battle of Ypres
Date22 April – 25 May 1915
Location
Ypres, Belgium
50°53′58″N 02°56′26″E / 50.89944°N 2.94056°E / 50.89944; 2.94056
Result See Analysis section
Territorial
changes
British withdraw to a new line 3 miles closer to Ypres
Belligerents

Second Battle of Ypres British Empire

  • Second Battle of Ypres Canada
  • Second Battle of Ypres India
  • Second Battle of Ypres United Kingdom

Second Battle of Ypres France

  • Algeria Algeria
  • Morocco Morocco
Belgium Belgium
Second Battle of Ypres German Empire
Commanders and leaders
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Horace Smith-Dorrien (replaced by)
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Herbert Plumer (6 May 1915~)
  • Canada Arthur Currie
  • France Henri Gabriel Putz
  • Belgium Armand De Ceuninck
German Empire Albrecht of Württemberg
Strength
  • 2 French divisions
  • 6 British divisions
7 divisions
Casualties and losses
  • French: 2,000–3,000 to 21,973
  • British: 59,275
35,000+
Ypres is located in Belgium
Ypres
Ypres
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Ypres, a Belgian municipality in the Flemish province of West Flanders

During the First World War, the Second Battle of Ypres was fought from 22 April – 25 May 1915 for control of the tactically important high ground to the east and south of the Flemish town of Ypres in western Belgium. The First Battle of Ypres had been fought the previous autumn. The Second Battle of Ypres was the first mass use by Germany of poison gas on the Western Front.

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