{"id":84889,"date":"2025-10-06T00:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=84889"},"modified":"2025-10-06T00:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:49:27","slug":"on-this-day-in-wwi-history-the-third-battle-of-ypres-aka-the-battle-of-passchendaele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/06\/on-this-day-in-wwi-history-the-third-battle-of-ypres-aka-the-battle-of-passchendaele\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in WWI History: The Third Battle of Ypres – aka The Battle of Passchendaele"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What You Need to Know About the Third Battle of Ypres<\/a><\/h1>\n

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The Third Battle of Ypres – also known as Passchendaele – has shaped perceptions of the First World War on the\u00a0Western Front<\/a>. Fought between July and November\u00a01917, both sides suffered heavy casualties and endured appalling conditions. The name Passchendaele has become synonymous with mud, blood and futility.<\/h2>\n

In 1917,\u00a0General Sir Douglas Haig<\/a>\u00a0planned a major offensive\u00a0to break out of the Ypres salient, which the Allies\u00a0had occupied since 1914.<\/h2>\n

Haig’s vision was for\u00a0a war-winning breakthrough. He planned\u00a0to\u00a0capture the high ground around Ypres, as well as a key rail junction to the east, and then\u00a0advance on the German-occupied ports of the Belgian coast – critical to the U-Boat campaign.<\/h2>\n

The battle failed to achieve Haig’s objectives. It lasted over 100 days. In that time, the Allies advanced about 5 miles for the loss of over 250,000 soldiers killed, wounded or missing.<\/h2>\n

RTWT @ Imperial War Museum (UK)<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n

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Battles of Ypres, 1917. Men of the Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) cleaning their rifles after coming out of the line, 3 August 1917.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What You Need to Know About the Third Battle of Ypres   The Third Battle of Ypres – also known as Passchendaele – has shaped perceptions of the First World War on the\u00a0Western Front. Fought between July and November\u00a01917, both sides suffered heavy casualties and endured appalling conditions. The name Passchendaele has become synonymous with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,5064,478,479,1286,4827,6458,5961,3545,8399],"tags":[763,18994,4679],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84892,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84889\/revisions\/84892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}