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'Third Battle of Artois', France, World War I, 25 September 1915, (1929). A bayonet charge against a German trench. The Third Battle of Artois was a joint British and French operation designed to dovetail with the French offensive in Champagne (Second Battle of Champagne). The attack was a failure, with the allies suffering 98,000 casualties, five times the losses sustained by the Germans.