List of battles with most Canadian military fatalities

This article contains a list of battles and military campaigns with most Canadian military deaths.

Battle or siege	Conflict	Date	Estimated number killed	Opposing force	References
Battle of Passchendaele	World War I	July 31 to November 10, 1917	Over 4,000 killed	Germany	^[1]
Battle of Vimy Ridge	World War I	April 9 to 12, 1917	3,598 killed	Germany	^[2]
Battle of Flers–Courcelette (part of the Battle of the Somme)	World War I	September 15 to 22, 1916	~2,500 killed	Germany	^[3]
Battle of Hill 70	World War I	August 15 to 23, 1917	2,025 killed^[a]	Germany	^[4]
Second Battle of Ypres	World War I	April 22 to May 25, 1915	Over 2,000 killed	Germany	^[5]
Siege of Louisbourg (1758)	Seven Years' War and the French and Indian War	June 8 to 26, 1758	~1,751 killed^[b]	Great Britain British America	^[6]
Falaise pocket	World War II	August 12 to 21, 1944	1,479 killed	Germany	^[7]
Battle of Ortona	World War II	December 20 to 28, 1943	1,375 killed	Germany	^[8]
Battle of Mont Sorrel	World War I	June 2 to 13, 1916	Over 1,100 killed	Germany	^[9]
Battle of Amiens (1918)	World War I	August 8 to 12, 1918	Over 1,036 killed^[c]	Germany	^[10]
Battle of St. Julien (part of the Second Battle of Ypres)	World War I	April 22 to May 5, 1915	~1,000 killed^[d]	Germany	^[11]

Campaign	Conflict	Date	Estimated number killed	Opposing force	References
Hundred Days Offensive	World War I	August 8 to November 11, 1918	11,000 killed^[e]	Germany Austria-Hungary	^[13]
Defence of the Reich	World War II	September 4, 1939 to May 8, 1945	Around 10,000 killed^[f]	Germany Italy Romania Hungary Slovakia	^[14]
Battle of the Somme	World War I	July 1 to November 18, 1916	8,000 killed^[g]	Germany	^[15]
Liberation of the Netherlands	World War II	September 1944 to April 1945	Over 7,600 killed	Germany	^[16]^[17]
Italian campaign	World War II	July 9, 1943 to May 2, 1945	~5,900 killed^[h]	Germany Italian Social Republic	^[18]^[19]
Battle of Normandy	World War II	June 6 to August 25, 1944	5,021 killed	Germany	^[20]
Expulsion of the Acadians	Seven Years' War and the French and Indian War	August 10, 1755 to July 11, 1764	~5,000 killed^[i]	Great Britain British America	^[21]
Battles of the Hindenburg Line (part of the Hundred Days Offensive)	World War I	September 12 to October 17, 1918	4,367 killed^[j]	Germany	^[22]
Battle of the Atlantic	World War II	September 10, 1939 to May 8, 1945^[k]	4,352 killed^[l]	Germany Italy	^[23]
Rhineland Offensive	World War II	February 8 to March 27, 1945	Over 2,300 killed	Germany	^[24]
Western Allied invasion of Germany	World War II	March 22 to May 8, 1945	1,747 killed	Germany Hungary	^[25]
Conquest of New France	Seven Years' War and the French and Indian War	July 24, 1758 to September 8, 1760	~1,448 killed^[m]	Great Britain British Ameirca Iroquois	^[28]
Gothic Line offensive (part of the Italian campaign)	World War II	August 25, 1944 to March 1945	1,016 killed	Germany Italian Social Republic	^[29]
Liberation of Belgium	World War II	September 2, 1944 to February 4, 1945	~1,000 killed^[n]	Germany	^[30]

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