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Capture of Wurst Farm : ウィキペディア英語版 | Capture of Wurst Farm (詳細は58th (2/1st London) Division (58th Division) against the German 36th Division on 20 September 1917, near Ypres, Belgium, during the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, part of the Third Battle of Ypres (Battle of Passchendaele). Wurst Farm was at the lower end of Gravenstafel Ridge and several British attacks in the area since 31 July had been repulsed by the Germans. The British began a desultory bombardment on 31 August and the shelling became intense from 13 September, to "soften" the German defences, except in the area of the Fifth Army (General Hubert Gough), where the slow bombardment continued until the last before a hurricane bombardment was fired, to gain surprise. XVIII Corps (Lieutenant-General Ivor Maxse) of the Fifth Army was to advance onto the Gravenstafel Spur, an area held by the 36th Division since 8 September. The 58th Division (Major-General Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe) was to conduct the attack, between the 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division on the right flank and the 51st (Highland) Division on the left. The 58th Division objective was ahead, among German strongpoints on Wurst Farm Ridge, at the west end of Gravenstafel Spur. The right-hand brigade made a decoy attack, while the left-hand brigade attacked from the left flank, concealed by mist. The feint captured Winnipeg cross-roads, as the main attack by three battalions one behind the other, advanced from Vancouver Farm, Keerselaere and took Hubner Farm. The two following battalions leap-frogged the leading battalion and turned right, half-way up the spur to reach Wurst Farm, keeping well up to the creeping barrage. The British took and fifty machine-guns, then established outposts to the left, overlooking the Stroombeek valley. Late in the afternoon a German counter-attack by the 234th Division to recover the Wilhelm (third) Line on the XVIII Corps front, was routed, with up to 50 percent casualties in some battalions. The 58th Division ascribed their success to excellent training, a good creeping barrage and smoke shell, which had thickened the mist and blinded the German defenders; gas shell barrages on the German reinforcement routes had depressed German morale. On 26 September, the 58th Division managed to advance further up the ridge. == Background ==
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