✦ History

Part of World War I

Battle of Messines (1917)

June 7–14, 1917 · Battle of Messines (1917)

Result British victory

Plumer's Second Army blew nineteen mines under the Messines ridge and took it in a single morning.

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Allies

Central Powers

Other

United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
New Zealand
German Empire
Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer military commander Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig military commander
Friedrich Sixt von Armin military commander Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria military commander

Strength and losses

Casualties
24,562

Units

Second Army (United Kingdom) IX Corps (United Kingdom) X Corps (United Kingdom) 16th (Irish) Division 23rd Division (United Kingdom) 24th Division (United Kingdom) 36th (Ulster) Division 41st Division (United Kingdom) 9th (Scottish) Division
4th Army (German Empire) XIX (2nd Royal Saxon) Corps 119th Infantry Division (German Empire)
4th Royal Bavarian Division

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