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The Battle of Cambrai (Battle of Cambrai, 1917, First Battle of Cambrai and Schlacht von Cambrai) was a British attack in the First World War, followed by the biggest German counter-attack against the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) since 1914.
The Battle of Cambrai, 1918 (also known as the Second Battle of Cambrai) was fought between troops of the British First, Third and Fourth Armies and German Empire forces during the Hundred Days Offensive of the First World War. The battle took place in and around the French city of Cambrai, between 8 and 10 October 1918. The battle incorporated ...
After this, rest and training for Cambrai. October–November. Training for planned Battle of Cambrai with Tanks. [5]: 15 20 November – 3 December. Battle of Cambrai, where the RGLI's role was to go through the Hindenburg Line after the first wave and take 'Nine Wood' to the north of Marcoing. [3]
The memorial lists the 7,048 [4] missing soldiers of the United Kingdom and South Africa who died at the Battle of Cambrai and have no known graves. [5] The memorial was designed by H. Chalton Bradshaw, who also designed the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing in Belgium, [6] with sculpture by Charles Sargeant Jagger. [2]
Destroyed British Mark I tanks at Cambrai A German soldier at Cambrai with disabled British tanks A captured German field artillery piece at Flesquières. The lone gunner of Flesquières is a possibly mythical German officer who is credited with destroying up to 16 British tanks at Flesquières, France, during the first day of the Battle of Cambrai on 20 November 1917.
Battle of Cambrai may refer to one of two British World War I campaigns near the town of Cambrai, France: Battle of Cambrai (1917), a British military offensive that involved the first successful use of tanks and combined arms; Battle of Cambrai (1918), a British military offensive during the Hundred Days Offensive of World War I
Battle lines showing the progressions of the Battle of Cambrai. Masnières is in the upper centre of the right side of the map. On the opening day of the battle, 20 November, the Royal Newfoundland Regiment (along with the rest of the 29th Division) were initially held in reserve as reinforcements.
Cambrai was the Duke of Wellington's headquarters, for the British Army of Occupation, from 1815 to 1818. Occupied by the German army during World War I, Cambrai suffered partial destruction in the First Battle of Cambrai from British artillery attacks on the town, including the nearby Bourlon Wood.