Battlefield Vlog: York Cemetery, Haspres

Posted on December 16, 2024 by

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In their final major battle of the Great War, the 1/4th (Hallamshire) and 1/5th Battalions of the York and Lancaster Regiment made an advance towards the Selle River valley at Haspres. Trench warfare was over and this was a battle in the open. Their dead were buried in the aptly named York Cemetery and in this film we discuss the fighting and visit the cemetery.

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Category: Battlefield Vlog

4 Comments on “Battlefield Vlog: York Cemetery, Haspres”

  1. Thanks for an interesting Vlog Paul. I have always been troubled by the high casualties suffered during this final phase of open warfare. I suppose that the only redeeming features were that we were making serious advances and decisively defeating the main enemy in the main theatre of war.

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    • The casualties were very high, and demonstrated that modern warfare was, and would remain, costly – something still true more than a century later.

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