The casualties suffered by the Canadian Corps in the fourteen days' heavy fighting amounted to—
| Officers | Other Ranks | |
| Killed | 126 | 1,688 |
| Missing | 9 | 436 |
| Wounded | 444 | 8,659 |
| ——— | ——— | |
| Total | 579 | 10,783 |
Considering the number of German divisions engaged, and the results achieved, the casualties were very light.
CHAPTER XVIII
THE ATTACK AGAINST THE HINDENBURG LINE
Canadian Headquarters were moved from Hautecloque to Noyelle Vion on August 23, 1918, and at noon General Currie assumed command of the front then held by the Seventeenth (British) Corps, extending from Neuville-Vitasse to Gavrelle in the Arras-Lens sector. The First and Fourth Canadian Divisions returned to the corps from the Amiens front on August 25 and 28, 1918, respectively. The corps thus was again with the First Army.
The general military situation at this time on the Amiens-Arras front is described by General Currie in his official report of these operations as follows:
"In sympathy with the severe reverses suffered on the Marne, and consequent upon the actions now fully developed in the Somme salient, signs were not wanting that the enemy was preparing to evacuate the salient of the Lys. This evacuation began under pressure of the First Army on August 25, 1918.
"All these attacks and their results, direct or indirect, enabled the Allies to recover the ground they had lost in the course of the German offensive operations.
"The recapture of that ground was, however, of secondary importance as compared to the moral results of these successive victories.