Battle Studies The Second Battle of Ypres 1915

German 4th Army issues Operational Orders for the attack

Operational Orders for the attack were issued to XXVI. Reserve Corps by the German 4th Army on 8 April. The objective was as follows:

"Seizure of the ridge marked by the road Boesinghe-Pilckem-Langemarck-Poelcappelle.

After the objective is reached the troops are at once to dig in, arranging for mutual flanking by means of supporting points."

The map shows the line from Boesinghe - Pilckem - Langemarck - Poelcappelle as the objective to be reached by the two divisions of the XXVI. Reserve Corps. Theses divisions were the 52. Reserve Division and part of the 51. Reserve Division. The frontage of the German attack was to cross over into the enemy lines of part of the French 87. Territorial Division and the French 45. Algerian Division.

Acknowledgements

Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918, pp. 34-49

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