Hooge
a village near and to the east of Ypres, that saw much fighting during the World War. During 1915 the neighborhood was held mainly by British troops, Keir's Sixth Army Corps, Allenby's Fifth Corps, and the new Fourteenth Light Division. In the summer of 1915 some of the hardest fighting of the war occurred round the trenches of by the Germans July 30, and were again taken by the British June 16, retaken British, Aug. 9. carried at the point of the bayonet by the taken by the British June 16, retaken by the Germans July 30, and were again carried at the point of the bayonet by the British, Aug. 9.