Fifth Battle of Ypres
| Fifth Battle of Ypres | |||||||
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| Part of the Western Front of the First World War | |||||||
Map of the final Allied offensives on the Western Front, 1918 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Belgium United Kingdom France Newfoundland | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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King Albert I Cyriaque Gillain Herbert Plumer Jean Degoutte |
Erich Ludendorff Crown Prince Rupprecht Friedrich Sixt von Armin | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 28 divisions | 16 divisions | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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British: 4,685 Belgian: 4,500 Newfoundland 15 |
10,000 POW 300 guns 600 machine guns | ||||||
The Fifth Battle of Ypres, also called the Advance in Flanders and the Battle of the Peaks of Flanders (French: Bataille des Crêtes de Flandres) is an informal name used to identify a series of World War I battles in northern France and southern Belgium (Flanders) from late September to October 1918.