World War 1, Europe Passchendaele, 1917
1917Battery of 8" guns off Menin Road firing on Passchendaele ridge
During the three and a half months the Battle of Third Ypres (Passchendaele), just over fifty British and Commonwealth infantry divisions, and almost one hundred German ones were committed. It is therefore reasonable to say that about one and a half million men witnessed this battlefield first-hand. Total casualties at Passchendaele are estimated at 475,000; about 275,000 British and Commonwealth and about 200,000 German. 38,000 Australians, 15,654 Canadians and 5,300 New Zealanders fell there, either killed, wounded or missing. Especially for these smaller nations, Passchendaele was their most costly engagement of the war, indeed their entire military history.
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he BL 8-inch howitzer Mark I through to Mark V (1 to 5)[ were a British improvisation developed early in the First World War to provide heavy artillery. It used shortened and bored-out barrels from various redundant naval 6-inch guns.
It bore no relation to the later 8-inch howitzer of the First World War, the Vickers 8-inch Mark VI to VIII howitzers which succeeded it.
Australian Army Museum of Western Australia
Australian Army Museum of Western Australia
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