Passchendaele WW1 Battle - German Army vs. British Troops 1917

IULIAN ROMANIA

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[m1rock]

And those are Canadian troops IuLian not British

[IuliCata85]

@m1rock They are from Canada I know but THEY ARE BRITISH TROOPS ! It was in 1917 !

[m1rock]

@IuliCata85 umm just because Canada was part of the British commonwealth doesn't mean Canada and Britain where the same country. It was still its own country. See the shoulder patch that says Canada? They are wearing uniforms of the Canadian army, not the British army. So yeah they are Canadian.

[IuliCata85]

@m1rock YOU can see the FLAG at minute 4.40 !!!

[m1rock]

@IuliCata85 Yes. That is the Canadian flag not the British Flag. Their flag looked like that until 1965 when they changed it to the Maple Leaf.

[Edgbarrow]

@IuliCata85 The flag looks very much like the Canadian Red Ensign (look on Wikipedia :-) )

[Edgbarrow]

@germanman95 There was a well known story of a Canadian soldier crucified by the enemy at Passchendaele. At the time it caused outrage and was used for propaganda. Later enquiries can't prove whether it happened or not. There are some written reports that a Canadian was found pinned to a barn door by bayonets, but they are not 100% reliable.

[Edgbarrow]

@contaminatedfilth In whose opinion? Both armies had different standards of troops. Most Canadian, South African and ANZAC troops had trained for over a year before seeing active service. Many of the German army were poorly trained conscripts, like the thousands killed at Ypres in 1914. By 1917 some German troops were experts, hardened by 3 years combat experience, others were 16 or 17 almost straight from school.

[contaminatedfilth]

@wigahiga500 Funny thing being is that the German Army was usually better trained than colonial troops.

[contaminatedfilth]

@carlogwapo1234 The Stahlhelm or Steel Helmet was introduced to German troops in WW1 1916, it was redeveloped in 1935, notice these helmets are very big, ww2 helmets were much smaller.

[germanman95]

How did the guy get stuck on that cross?

[haleymadimckenzie]

@IuliCata85 no they where Canadian. they fought as an independent brigade from the English army and they had their own defence minister and goverment

[Talbot6832]

@m1rock Roughly 45% of the CEF had British parentage or were born in Britain just for interests sake.

[Mr94T]

@m1rock By the British Empire? Canada was a classed as "British overseas territory" and our canadian army was actually part of the British army. the canadians were in the RAF which is also British.

[m1rock]

@Mr94T Classified as British by whom??