The Great War Generals on the Western Front 1914-1918 |
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... Bullecourt . Bullecourt was a two - part Australian affair - officially the First and Second Battles of Bullecourt fought by I Anzac under their British commander , Lieutenant - General Sir William Birdwood , and with the assistance of ...
... Bullecourt . Bullecourt was a two - part Australian affair - officially the First and Second Battles of Bullecourt fought by I Anzac under their British commander , Lieutenant - General Sir William Birdwood , and with the assistance of ...
Page 357
... Bullecourt and even entered the village ; it too then broke down . Only two of the twelve tanks survived the action . The plan for this assault on Bullecourt depended entirely on the tanks . It was a Tank Corps idea , proposed by a Tank ...
... Bullecourt and even entered the village ; it too then broke down . Only two of the twelve tanks survived the action . The plan for this assault on Bullecourt depended entirely on the tanks . It was a Tank Corps idea , proposed by a Tank ...
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... Bullecourt was in Australian hands , something which the com- manders in 62nd Division knew was not true . " They declined , ' in the words of the Australian Official History , ' to send their unprotected troops , without tanks , in ...
... Bullecourt was in Australian hands , something which the com- manders in 62nd Division knew was not true . " They declined , ' in the words of the Australian Official History , ' to send their unprotected troops , without tanks , in ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
THE BACKGROUND TO THE WAR 18711914 | 8 |
THE TURN OF THE TIDE AND THE HUNDRED DAYS JuneNovember 1918 483 | 22 |
Copyright | |
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advance Allenby Allied ammunition Arras artillery assault attack Aubers Ridge August Australian barrage Bassée battalions battle battlefield began Belgian bombardment Bourlon Brigade British Army British line Byng Cambrai Canadian Corps Canal casualties Cateau cavalry Cavalry Corps Cavalry Division counter-attack creeping barrage east enemy Field Marshal French Fifth Army fighting Flesquières Foch force forward Fourth Army France French Army front line front-line German Army German defences German line Gough ground Haig Haig's heavy guns Hindenburg Line II Corps infantry Joffre Kitchener La Bassée La Boisselle Lanrezac Le Cateau Lieutenant-General Lloyd George Loos losses Major-General Messines miles military move Neuve Chapelle Nivelle offensive officers ordered Passchendaele Plumer push Rawlinson Regiment reserves rifle Salient Schlieffen Plan Second Army sent shells Smith-Dorrien soldiers Somme staff strongpoints tactics tanks Third Army took troops village Vimy Ridge Western Front wire Wood wounded yards Ypres