A Review of James’ Battle’s

Following the “Third Battle of Ieper”, also known as the “Battle of Passchendaele”. James headed off to fight in “The Battle of Amiens”, he engaged the enemy on August 8, 1918. The Battle of Amiens was James final battle, I talked about it first because we saw it first.

My discussion of the Battle of Amiens was discussed in my entry dated May 6, 2024 but here is a quick recap. This was their most successful and easiest battle of all, but that was only the beginning. This battle commenced the hundred-day offensive which was a long and very bloody operation. It was early in the hundred-day offensive, August 8, 1918, that James was wounded.

Since it was close to the end of the war it was also his final battle.

That means that I have now discussed all of James’ major battles.

Let me review them in order:

Vimy Ridge                                                                        April 8, 1917
Odds of being injured                  7%
Odds of being killed                    3.6%

Hill 70                                                                                  August 15, 1917
Odds of being injured                  7.4%      (13.9% overall)
Odds of being killed                    1.6%      (5.1% overall)

Passchendaele                                                                      July 31, 1917
Odds of being injured                   12%      (24.3% overall)
Odds of being killed                       4%      (8.9% overall)

The Battle of Amiens (100-day offensive)                          August 8, 1918
Odds of being injured                  32.9%    (49.1% overall)
Odds of being killed                      6.8%     (15.1% overall)

Overall, his odds of being killed or wounded was 56.8%

I wonder what James would have thought if he’d known at the beginning of the war that he had a 50% chance of being wounded and a 15% chance of dying. He had roughly 50/50 odds of coming home unscathed.