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The Battle of Arras took place on 21 May 1940, during the Battle of France in the Second World War. Following the German invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May, French and British forces advanced into Belgium. The German campaign plan Fall Gelb (Case Yellow) had evolved into a decoy operation in the Netherlands and Belgium, with the main ...
158,000. 120,000–130,000. The Battle of Arras (also known as the Second Battle of Arras) was a British offensive on the Western Front during the First World War. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British troops attacked German defences near the French city of Arras on the Western Front. The British achieved the longest advance since trench warfare ...
Bloody April. Albatros D.III fighters of Jasta 11. The second aircraft from the camera (with the step ladder) was painted red, and was one of several flown by Manfred von Richthofen, the most successful ace of the entire war. Bloody April was the (largely successful) British air support operation during the Battle of Arras in April 1917, during ...
Battle of St Quentin Canal. The Hindenburg Line (German: Siegfriedstellung, Siegfried Position) was a German defensive position built during the winter of 1916–1917 on the Western Front in France during the First World War. The line ran from Arras to Laffaux, near Soissons on the Aisne.
Gordon MacMillan. James Cassels. 152nd Infantry Brigade was a formation of Britain's Territorial Force / Territorial Army that was part of 51st (Highland) Division in both World Wars. From its origins in the 19th Century Volunteer Force it was based in Inverness and was composed of Highland battalions. It served on the Western Front in World ...
The siege of Calais (1940) was a battle for the port of Calais during the Battle of France. The siege was fought at the same time as the Battle of Boulogne, just before Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) through Dunkirk. After the Franco-British counter-attack at the Battle of Arras (21 May), German units ...
Carrière Wellington. Coordinates: 50°16′50.1594″N 2°46′58.7274″E. The Carrière Wellington is a museum in Arras, northern France. It is named after a former underground quarry which was part of a network of tunnels used by forces of the British Empire and Commonwealth during the First World War. Opened in March 2008 (16 years ago ...
This was a post he would hold until 12 April 1917 when, his luck having by now run out, he was killed during the Battle of Arras, as was his brigade major, Captain Fellowes, who was killed by an enemy sniper, while Gosling himself "was killed by a shell. They are buried side by side in the Hervin Farm British Cemetery, St. Laurent-Blagny, France".