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View from Gravenstafel, Second Battle of Ypres, in the Great War

The First Gas Attacks, during Second Battle of Ypres, 22 April 1915. View from Gravenstafel (Sheet 28.D.9.c.8.3, the crossroads of Schipstraat and 's Gravenstafelstraat) on 17 April 1915, only five days before the German Army unleashed 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres. The front collapsed to the GHQ line, with the 10th and 16th Canadian Infantry Battalions successfully preventing a German breakthrough, thus preventing an early end to the Great War (and a German victory). The 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade Commander, Brig.-Gen. Arthur William Currie promoted to Major-General following the battle. The Honour “Gravenstafel” awarded to Canadian units for their actions defending against the German attack. Currie's calculated decisions in the fog-of-war made the difference in the battle. But, it was the supreme sacrifice of the 10th and 16th Battalions that led the Supreme Allied Commander, Marshal Ferdinand Foch to declare following the Great War, their assault on an entire German Division was the "greatest act of the war". This same area, the vicinity of the second Gas Attacks on 24 April 1915. On this occasion, the Canadian Corps holding the line as the cloud of green gas fell into their crude trenches. Men struggled to operate their jamming Ross rifles while peering through urine-soaked improvised masks. Note, in less than two years, this area is completely unrecognizable, and becomes for Canadians, in the words of Lt.-Col. Agar Adamson of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, "that God-forsaken land" during the Second Battle of Passchendaele. Today, Passchendaele is once again the same beautiful countryside it was in 1914. CEFRG (Canadian Expeditionary Force Research Group) cefrg.ca