Montauban-de-Picardie Moo-cow: Mouquet Farm, near Pozières Mucky Farm: Mouquet Farm, near Pozières Ocean Villas: Auchonvillers, Somme Plugstreet: Ploegsteert,...
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military cemetery: No Man’s Cot Cemetery Commonwealth military cemetery: Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery Commonwealth military cemetery: Polygon Wood Cemetery...
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Mines in the Battle of Messines (1917) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
(Ploegsteert) Wood, the objectives to be reached in three to six months. Fowke had wanted galleries about 960 m (1,050 yd) long, as far as Grand Bois and...
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pincer attack at the Battle of Aubers Ridge are commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing. On the same road as the Indian Memorial is the...
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Battle of Messines (1917) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
objective was to capture the German defences on the ridge, which ran from Ploegsteert Wood (Plugstreet to the British) in the south, through Messines and Wytschaete...
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Thomas Mottershead No. 020No. 20 Squadron RFC 1917-01-077 January 1917* Ploegsteert Wood, Belgium Albert Mountain Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)...
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the other three dug a reserve line from Bois Blancs to Le Quesne, La Houssoie and Rue du Bois, half way to Bois Grenier. A German attack by the 51st Infantry...
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War Le Transloy Thomas Mottershead British Army 1917 First World War Ploegsteert Wood James Mouat British Army 1854 Crimean War Balaclava Albert Mountain...
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Tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
feet (76 m) in diameter, and 40 feet (12 m) deep. Four mines close to Ploegsteert Wood (Birdcage 1–4) were not exploded as they were outside the attack...
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Messines was to capture the German defences on the ridge, which ran from Ploegsteert Wood (Plugstreet to the British) in the south through Messines and Wytschaete...
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