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Updated: July 14, 2025
They were completely blocked by the German advance. They were like rats in a trap and could not move. At the start of the battle, the Canadian lines ran from the village of Langemarcke over to St. Julien, a distance of approximately three to four miles. From St. Julien to the sector where the Imperial British had joined the Turcos was a distance of probably two miles.
It was in the most furious conflict of the western campaign a battle between Langemarcke and Steenstrate, in Flanders that the Canadian troops saved the British army from what seemed almost inevitable defeat. The Canadian division was in the front line of the British forces on April 23, when the Germans made their sudden assaults and broke through the line for a distance of five miles.
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