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The Significance of Hill 70 and its Strategic Impact

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1 The Significance of Hill 70 and its Strategic Impact
Doug Delaney, Royal Military College of Canada

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3 Strategic and Operational Context
Arras 159,000 British Casualties Nivelle 180,000 French Casualties

4 Strategic and Operational Context
German Casualties (July May 1917) 750,000

5 Currie and Horne

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8 1 2 4 Hill 70 LENS

9 Lt-Gen Sir Arthur Currie Commander Canadian Corps
Maj-Gen AC. Macdonnell GOC 1st Cdn Div 1 Maj-Gen H.S. Burstall GOC 2nd Cdn Div 2 Lt-Gen Sir Arthur Currie Commander Canadian Corps Maj-Gen D. Watson GOC 4th Cdn Div 4

10 German prisoners help carry Canadian wounded from a captured trench
German prisoners help carry Canadian wounded from a captured trench. LAC PA Canadian walking wounded leaving the battlefield during the fight for Hill 70. LAC, PA

11 Canadian gun crew during Hill 70 battle. CWM 19930065-578
Vickers machine-gun crew, CWM

12 German prisoners captured at Hill 70. LAC PA-001726

13 Currie (centre with arms behind back) and Haig meet with a French official. LAC, PA-004666

14 Canadians being evacuated using a narrow-gauge railway. LAC, PA-001823.
Concrete reinforced houses used by the Germans as defensive positions, LAC PA

15 The Green Crassier (background).
Regimental Aid Post. Dressing wounded Canadians during the attack. LAC, PA The Green Crassier (background). LAC, PA-00407

16 Men of the 15th Battalion (CEF) marching to a rest area after the battles of Hill 70 and Lens, August LAC, PA

17 Canadians who took part in the capture of Hill 70, marching past General Sir Henry Horne, Commander First Army, September 1917. LAC, PA

18 War Memorial in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Serge Durflinger collection.

19 Figure 2.1 – Canadian Corps Commander and Key Staff DA & QMG
(July-August 1917) G-Staff Corps Commander Lt-Gen A.W. Currie From 9/6/17 Artillery BGGS GOC Royal Artillery (GOC RA) Brig-Gen P. de B. Radcliffe, psc 2/6/16 – 8/4/18 Maj-Gen E.W.B. Morrison From 12/12/16 A & Q Staff GSO2 DA & QMG Staff Officer Royal Artillery (SO RA) Maj HRH Prince Arthur of Connaught 13/3/17 – 2/4/18 Brig-Gen G.J. Farmar, psc 19/6/16 – 27/2/19 Maj A.F. Brooke 13/2/17 – 6/10/18 Maj C.C. Foss, V.C. 5/7/17 – 30/12/17 AQMG Lt-Col W.B. Anderson, psc (PF) From 19/10/16 Counter-Battery Staff Officer (CBSO) Maj W.R. Bertram 10/6/17 – 4/12/17 Lt-Col A.G.L. McNaughton 27/1/17 – 10/11/18 Maj F.G. Chalmer 12/2/17 – 2/1/18 DAAG(A) Maj W. Bovey 18/5/17 – 14/12/18 GOC Heavy Artillery GSO3 Maj J.C. Kemp 14/6/17 – 3/12/17 Brig-Gen R.H. Massie 22/1/17 – 10/11/18 BM Heavy Artillery Legend: Maj N.W. Aitken 15/8/16 – 17/10/18 Canadian Officer Imperial Officer PF – Permanent Force psc – passed staff college GOC Canadian Engineers Maj-Gen W.B. Lindsay (PF) 7/3/16 – 1/8/18

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