He became a Captain in 1917 and received nine wounds in fifteen minutes at Passchendaele.
The monument was dedicated by the Scottish Parliament's Minister for Europe Linda Fabiani during the late summer of 2007, the 90th anniversary of the battle.
•
The area was considered by the British to be drier than Loos, Givenchy and Plugstreet Wood further south.
Battle of Passchendaele (July 31 – November 6, 1917) also known as the Third Battle of Ypres
Later in the war he learned to fly and joined the Royal Flying Corps but was shot down over Paschendale in August 1917.
He served in the Australian Imperial Force's 18th Battalion from 1916 to 1917 in the signals unit, seeing action at Ypres and the Somme.
Foott's younger son was killed in action at Passchendaele in September 1917, and she was survived by her other son, Brigadier-General Cecil Henry Foott, C.B., C.M.G., who was born on 16 January 1876, educated as an engineer, and serving with distinction through the great war was six times mentioned in dispatches.
First Battle of Passchendaele, a constituent battle of the Battle of Passchendaele
•
Second Battle of Passchendaele, a constituent battle of the Battle of Passchendaele
Battle of Waterloo | Battle of Britain | Battle of the Somme | Battle of the Bulge | Battle of Gettysburg | Battle Creek, Michigan | Battle of France | Battle of Trafalgar | Battle of Hastings | Battle of Antietam | battle | Battle of Shiloh | Battle of Midway | Battle of Belleau Wood | Battle of the Alamo | Battle of Leipzig | Battle of Agincourt | Battle of Verdun | Battle of Thermopylae | Battle of the Plains of Abraham | Battle of Vienna | Second Battle of the Marne | Second Battle of El Alamein | Battle of the Nile | Battle of the Boyne | Battle of Stalingrad | Battle of Austerlitz | The Last Battle | Kathleen Battle | Battle of Vitoria |
Before it could be acted upon, he was gassed at the Paschendaele front (Ypres) and wounded at the Amiens front.
As a sergeant in the Australian Imperial Force, McGee was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in the Battle of Broodseinde—part of the Passchendaele offensive—on 4 October 1917.
Prince Franz led this brigade through its victories at Fort Douaumont, Passchendaele and Kemmelberg.