| Date | Components | Outcome/Significance |
| Ypres
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– Britain, Canada and allied fight with German
– On April 22, the Germans sought to remove the Salient by introducing a new weapon, poison gas. – First use of chlorine, phosgene, mustard gas
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– Apr 22-May 25, 1915
– No clear winner – 6,035 Canadians, one man in every three, became casualties of whom more than 2,000 died.
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| Somme
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– The campaign was planned well in advance with a massive build-up of men and munitions.
– First use tank |
– July 1- Nov 18, 1916
– 57,500 British soldiers killed, wounded or missing in one day – The Somme had cost Canada 24,029 casualties
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| Vimy Ridge
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– Full scale rehearsals suggested behind the front lines by Arthur Currie
– Used the craters to create a new network of trenches
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– Apr 9-12, 1917
– 10,602 Canadian casualties. |
| Passchendaele
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– Take Passchendaele ridge and the village, then from there, attack the German run Belgian ports
– In a series of attacks beginning on October 26, 20,000 men under heavy fire inched their way from shell-crater to shell-crater.
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– A clear win but took 3-4 months
– The total of attackers killed came to 4,028 by November 11. Currie’s estimate of 16,
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