Battle of Cambrai, 9 October 1918

[ejwalshe]

101 YEARS AGO TODAY:  Battle of Cambrai, 9 October 1918.  By the end of the day, the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division advances as much as four kilometers and captures the towns of Ramillies, Escaudoeuvres and Eswars, while securing important bridges over the Canal de l'Escaut.

On the Canadian Corps right, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division clears the town of Cambrai and meets up with the 24th British Division moving up from the south.

Victoria Cross recipient:  Captain Coulson Norman Mitchell, 4th Battalion Canadian Engineers, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division.

[ejwalshe]

Odd comment, given you did not bother to watch the video, @UncleBourbon

 

Thanks anyway.

[Acknown]

Excellent collection of media. Very interesting.

Acknown

[Dave1418]

excellent 

[phil andrade]

What gave the Canadians that special edge in the Hundred Days ?

 

Was it because they had been spared the full impact of the German spring offensive ?

 

I even wonder if they had a special kind of killer instinct : a sort of North American business like approach to warfare.  A ruthless determination to get the job done, perhaps to the extent of pursuit and exploitation over the German frontier, where more circumspect Allied commanders feared to tread.

 

Was Currie anxious to see the extirpation of German potential, with the intention of ensuring that there wouldn’t be another war a generation thence ?

 

Were he and Pershing in like mind here ?

 

Phil

[mebu]

excellent interesting series.

 

Just been watching again, thought one of the pics looked familiar.

Below is "today" pic of the film around 4mins 20 secs., near Inchy.

 

The bunker can be identified in the middle of the road bank. Apparently it was lived in by a family until the 1960s.

 

Peter 

 

PS oh dear, sorry about scan quality

 

 

Edited 10 October , 2019 by mebu
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