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<blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1825821" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/11169636_385035671679984_583313028407739042_o.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> 'At the going down of the sun and in the morningWe will remember them'Men of the 8th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment going up to the line near Frezenberg during the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917.The Battle of Passchendaele, also referred to as the Third Battle of Ypres, was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies of World War I against the German Empire. The battle took place on the Western Front, from July to November 1917, for control of the ridges south and east of the Belgian city of Ypres in West Flanders.Casualties:Various casualty figures have been published, sometimes with acrimony, although the highest estimates for British and German casualties appear to be discredited. In the Official History, Brigadier-General J. E. Edmonds put British casualties at 244,897 and wrote that equivalent German figures were not available, estimating German losses at 400,000. Edmonds considered that 30% needed to be added to German statistics, to make them comparable with British casualty criteria. In 2007, Sheldon wrote that although German casualties from 1 June – 10 November were 217,194, a figure available in Volume III of the Sanitätsbericht (1934), Edmonds may not have included them as they did not fit his case. Sheldon recorded 182,396 slightly wounded and sick soldiers not struck off unit strength, which if included would make 399,590 German losses. The British claim to have taken 24,065 prisoners has not been disputed.In these figures some 80,000 men (total from both sides) were recorded as missing, completely lost on the field of battle.R.I.P.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="emilioteles, post: 1825821, member: 3144"] [IMG]https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/11169636_385035671679984_583313028407739042_o.jpg[/IMG] 'At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them' Men of the 8th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment going up to the line near Frezenberg during the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917. The Battle of Passchendaele, also referred to as the Third Battle of Ypres, was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies of World War I against the German Empire. The battle took place on the Western Front, from July to November 1917, for control of the ridges south and east of the Belgian city of Ypres in West Flanders. Casualties: Various casualty figures have been published, sometimes with acrimony, although the highest estimates for British and German casualties appear to be discredited. In the Official History, Brigadier-General J. E. Edmonds put British casualties at 244,897 and wrote that equivalent German figures were not available, estimating German losses at 400,000. Edmonds considered that 30% needed to be added to German statistics, to make them comparable with British casualty criteria. In 2007, Sheldon wrote that although German casualties from 1 June – 10 November were 217,194, a figure available in Volume III of the Sanitätsbericht (1934), Edmonds may not have included them as they did not fit his case. Sheldon recorded 182,396 slightly wounded and sick soldiers not struck off unit strength, which if included would make 399,590 German losses. The British claim to have taken 24,065 prisoners has not been disputed. In these figures some 80,000 men (total from both sides) were recorded as missing, completely lost on the field of battle. R.I.P. [/QUOTE]

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