Did Canada send troops to fight in the First Battle of Ypres in World War 1 ?

Answer 1

No, Canada was not involved in the first battle of Ypres.

Date October 19 - November 22, 1914
Location Ypres, Belgium
Result Allied victory

Combatants
United Kingdom
France German Empire
Commanders
John French
Ferdinand Foch Erich von Falkenhayn
Strength
UK: 7 infantry divisions, 3 cavalry divisions
France: ? Fourth and Sixth Armies
Casualties
UK: 58,000
France: 50,000 130,000
Race to the Sea
Albert – Arras – La Bassée – Messines – Armentières – 1st Ypres – Yser

The First BattleThe First Battle of Ypres, also called the Battle of Flanders, was the last major battle of the first year of World War I (1914). This battle and the Battle of the Yser marked the end of the so-called Race to the Sea.

The British Expeditionary Force, under the command of Field Marshal Sir John French, was redeployed north from the mobile fighting of the first two months of the war to join two divisions of reinforcements recently landed in Belgium. They advanced east from Saint-Omer, met and halted the German Army at the Passchendaele Ridge to the east of the Belgian town of Ypres. The Belgians opened the sluice gates of the river Yser to let in the sea into the low lying land to prevent further German advances[1]. Both sides dug in for trench warfare. The town of Ypres was rapidly demolished by artillery and air attack.

The Germans called the battle "The Massacre of the Innocents" (German "Kindermord"). Eight German units consisted of young volunteers, many of them enthusiastic students, and these units suffered huge casualties during a failed attack on a smaller but highly-experienced British force, many of them veterans of the Second Boer War. The BEF was supported for the first time by battalions from the Army of India and the British Territorials, whose support was essential in holding the Germans at bay. The BEF was severely weakened at First Ypres, but the battle allowed the Allies time to strengthen their lines.

In 1917, the Mons Star was awarded to those surviving British troops who had served in France or Belgium prior to the end of the First Battle of Ypres; the last surviving holder of this decoration, Alfred Anderson, died in November 2005.

Answer 2

They were involved in all major battles of the western front after 1915, but only the British fought in the first battle of Ypres in1914.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

CANADA DOESN'T DO WAR-THAT IS WHAT THEY SAID WHEN ASK TO HELP PROTECT AMERICA FROM TERRORIST.
WHY IS THAT?
COWARDS?
CALL US YOUR BROTHER TILL WE NEED YOU?
MY BROTHER HAS MY BACK.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
LAND OF THE FREE -HOME OF THE BRAVE

Answer 5

No; South Africa did.