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Title
Passchendaele (Fray Bentos)
Description
It sounds like the far fetched plot of a war film, but in fact, this remarkable incident occurred at the Battle of Passchendaele. The Fray Bentos tank’s officer, Captain Donald Richardson, had been a wholesale grocer in Nottingham before the …
Publisher
Date
1917-08-23
Scenario#
124
Scenario Description
It sounds like the far fetched plot of a war film, but in fact, this remarkable incident occurred at the Battle of Passchendaele. The Fray Bentos tank’s officer, Captain Donald Richardson, had been a wholesale grocer in Nottingham before the war and held the agency for Fray Bentos canned meat, and had flippantly named his first tank command, Fray Bentos. Early in the battle, the tank was hit by machine gun fire, which struck the driver, causing the tank to surge into a crater, where it became stuck. A number of attempts were made by the crew to free the tank, but all failed.
Location
Passchendaele, France
Battle Narrative
The Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele, was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire. The battle took place on the Western Front, from July to November 1917, for control of the ridges south and east of the Belgian city of Ypres in West Flanders, as part of a strategy decided by the Allies at conferences in November 1916 and May 1917. Passchendaele lies on the last ridge east of Ypres, 5 mi (8.0 km) from Roulers junction of the Bruges (Brugge) to Kortrijk railway. The station at Roulers was on the main supply route of the German 4th Army. Once Passchendaele Ridge had been captured, the Allied advance was to continue to a line from Thourout to Couckelaere (Koekelare).
Narrative Source
Combatants
German
British

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