“The task of actually capturing the “infamous” village fell to the 27th (City of Winnipeg) Battalion and they took it that day.” In heavy fighting, the attack went according to plan,” the official history goes on. “On November 6, the Canadians and British launched the assault to capture the ruined village of Passchendaele itself. “Despite the adversity, the Canadians reached the outskirts of Passchendaele by the end of a second attack on October 30 during a driving rainstorm.” “On an exposed battlefield like that one, success was often only made possible due to acts of great individual heroism to get past spots of particularly stiff enemy resistance,” according to Veterans Affairs Canada’s online history. 26 and clawed their way toward the Germans.
“They fought in four battles and they eventually captured that ridge.”Īccording to Veterans Affairs Canada, Canadian Corps commander Lieutenant-General Arthur Currie’s troops set out on Oct. When the Canadians arrived, “there were unburied corpses, thousands of corpses in fact, and the Canadians were called there to deliver victory,” Cook said. Tim Cook, a historian at the Canadian War Museum, tells CTV News Channel Thursday that it was a “terrible battle” on a field torn apart by millions of shells where soldiers fought through “glutinous mud.” Like Vimy, it was an astonishing feat and one achieved under brutal conditions. It was a heavy price to pay for a country of just eight million people, especially considering the gains were abandoned to the Germans the following year.īut historians agree that Passchendaele – along with Vimy - helped gained Canada international respect at a time when it was a 50 years-old former colony struggling to define its independence from Britain. 10, the Canadians corps lost more than 4,000 people while 12,000 were wounded. At the Battle at Passchendaele, which was between Oct. There were nearly 3,600 Canadians killed and more than 7,000 wounded at Vimy in April 1917.
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A full 35 per cent said they didn’t know. When given a list of 10 battles throughout history and asked which two Canadians participated in during 1917, only 25 per cent of those polled correctly chose Passchendaele, while 49 per cent could name Vimy Ridge.
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The survey is considered accurate to within plus or minus 3.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. That’s according to a new poll of 1,001 Canadians conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs for the Vimy Foundation between Oct. Even most those over age 55 couldn’t pick the right war, with 44 per cent correct. Millennials (ages 18 to 34) fared only marginally better than chance, at 27 per cent correct. When given a list of five wars to choose from–including the Second World War, Korean War, Vietnam War and war in Afghanistan– only 35 per cent were able to correctly identify Passchendaele as part of the First World War. Passchendaele was one of the deadliest battles in Canadian history, but a new poll released exactly 100 years later finds that most Canadians can’t even correctly identify which war it was part of.
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