✦ History

Part of Battle of Passchendaele

Battle of Polygon Wood

September 26–27, 1917 · Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke

Result British victory

British and Australian forces advanced near Ypres across Polygon Wood. They took their objectives in this stage of Third Ypres.

On the map Contemporaries

Allies

Central Powers

United Kingdom
Australia
German Empire
Hubert Gough military commander Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer military commander Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig military commander
Erich Ludendorff military commander Friedrich Sixt von Armin military commander Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria military commander

Strength and losses

Casualties
13,500

Units

23rd Division (United Kingdom) 37th Division (United Kingdom) 4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) 59th (2nd North Midland) Division