List of Canadian battles during the First World War
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List of Canadian battle
s during the First World War in which the Canadian Expeditionary Force
participated:
France and Flanders
and Rifle Wood from 30 March to 1 April during the German Offensive of 1918, while significant and resulting in the award of a Victoria Cross to Lt. Gordon Flowerdew of the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), it did not result in the awarding of a battle honour.
Battle
Generally, a battle is a conceptual component in the hierarchy of combat in warfare between two or more armed forces, or combatants. In a battle, each combatant will seek to defeat the others, with defeat determined by the conditions of a military campaign...
s during the First World War in which the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Canadian Expeditionary Force
The Canadian Expeditionary Force was the designation of the field force created by Canada for service overseas in the First World War. Units of the C.E.F. were divided into field formation in France, where they were organized first into separate divisions and later joined together into a single...
participated:
France and Flanders
Campaign | Battle | Date |
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Trench Warfare 1915 | Battle of Neuve Chapel | 10 March 1915 |
Action of St. Eloi | 14-15 March 1915 | |
Battle of Ypres, 1915 Second Battle of Ypres The Second Battle of Ypres was the first time Germany used poison gas on a large scale on the Western Front in the First World War and the first time a former colonial force pushed back a major European power on European soil, which occurred in the battle of St... |
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Gravenstafel Ridge (the Gas Attack) | 22–23 April 1915 | |
St. Julien | 24 April - 4 May 1915 | |
Frezenberg Ridge | 8 -13 May 1915 | |
Bellewaarde Ridge | 24–25 May 1915 | |
Battle of Aubers Ridge | 9 May 1915 | |
Battle of Festubert Battle of Festubert The Battle of Festubert was an attack by the British army in the Artois region of France on the western front during World War I. It began on May 15, 1915 and continued until May 25.-Context:... |
15-27 May 1915 | |
Second Action at Givenchy | 15-16 May 1915 | |
Battle of Loos Battle of Loos The Battle of Loos was one of the major British offensives mounted on the Western Front in 1915 during World War I. It marked the first time the British used poison gas during the war, and is also famous for the fact that it witnessed the first large-scale use of 'new' or Kitchener's Army... |
25 September - 8 October 1915 | |
Action of Bois Grenier | 25 September 1915 | |
Actions of the Hohenzollern Redoubt | 13-19 October 1915 | |
Trench Warfare 1916 | Actions of St. Eloi Craters | 27 March – 16 April 1916 |
Battle of Mount Sorrel Battle of Mont Sorrel The Battle of Mont Sorrel was a localized conflict of World War I between three divisions of the British Second Army and three divisions of the German Fourth Army in the Ypres Salient, near Ypres, Belgium, from 2 June 1916 to 14 June 1916.In an effort to pull British resources from the observed... |
2 - 13 June 1916 | |
The Allied Offensive, 1916 | Battles of the Somme | |
Albert, 1916 | 1 -13 July 1916 | |
Bazentin Ridge | 14 - 17 July 1916 | |
Attack at Fromelles | 19 July 1916 | |
Attacks on High Wood | 20 - 25 July 1916 | |
Pozieres Ridge | 1 - 3 September 1916 | |
Guillemont | 3 - 6 September 1916 | |
Ginchy | 9 September 1916 | |
Flers-Courcelette Battle of Flers-Courcelette The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, was a battle within the Franco-British Somme Offensive which took place in the summer and autumn of 1916. Launched on the 15th of September 1916 the battle went on for one week. Flers-Courcelette began with the overall objective of cutting a hole in the German... |
15–22 September 1916 | |
Thiepval Ridge Battle of Thiepval Ridge The Battle of Thiepval Ridge was the first large offensive mounted by the British Reserve Army of Lieutenant General Hubert Gough during the Battle of the Somme and was designed to benefit from British Fourth Army's Battle of Morval by starting 24 hours afterwards... |
26–29 September 1916 | |
Le Transloy Ridges Battle of Le Transloy The Battle of Le Transloy was the final offensive mounted by the British Fourth Army during the 1916 Battle of the Somme.-Prelude:With the successful conclusion of the preceding Battle of Morval at the end of September, the Fourth Army of Lieutenant General Henry Rawlinson had finally captured the... (Capture of Eaucourt l'Abbaye) |
1 – 18 October 1916 | |
Ancre Heights Battle of the Ancre Heights The Battle of the Ancre Heights was a prolonged battle of attrition in October 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. Lieutenant General Hubert Gough's Reserve Army had finally managed to break out of the positions it had occupied since the start of the Somme fighting and Gough intended to maintain... (Capture of Regina Trench) |
1 October - 11 November 1916 | |
The Ancre, 1916 (Capture of Beaumont Hamel) | 13 - 18 November 1916 | |
The Advance to the Hindenburg Line 1917 | The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line | 24 - 29 March 1917 |
The Allied Offensive 1917 | Battle of Arras 1917 Battle of Arras (1917) The Battle of Arras was a British offensive during the First World War. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British, Canadian, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and Australian troops attacked German trenches near the French city of Arras on the Western Front.... |
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Vimy Ridge Battle of Vimy Ridge The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a military engagement fought primarily as part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were the Canadian Corps, of four divisions, against three divisions of the German Sixth Army... |
9 – 14 April 1917 | |
First Scarpe, 1917 | 9 – 14 April 1917 | |
Second Scarpe, 1917 | 23 – 24 April 1917 | |
Attack on La Coulotte | 23 April 1917 | |
Arleux | 28–29 April 1917 | |
Third Scarpe, 1917 (Capture of Fresnoy) | 3 - 4 May 1917 | |
Third Scarpe, 1917 (Capture of Fresnoy) | 3 - 4 May 1917 | |
Affairs South of the Souchez River | 3 - 25 June 1917 | |
Capture of Avion | 26 - 29 June 1917 | |
Battle of Hill 70 Battle of Hill 70 The Battle of Hill 70 was a localized battle of World War I between the Canadian Corps and five divisions of the German Sixth Army. The battle took place along the Western Front on the outskirts of Lens in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France between 15 August 1917 and 25 August 1917.The primary... |
15–25 August 1917 | |
Battle of Messines, 1917 (Capture of Wytschaete) Battle of Messines The Battle of Messines was a battle of the Western front of the First World War. It began on 7 June 1917 when the British Second Army under the command of General Herbert Plumer launched an offensive near the village of Mesen in West Flanders, Belgium... |
7 – 14 June 1917 | |
Battles of Ypres, 1917 | ||
Pilckem Ridge | 31 July - 3 August 1917 | |
Langemarck, 1917 | 16 - 18 August 1917 | |
Menin Road Ridge | 20 - 25 September 1917 | |
Polygon Wood | 26 September - 3 October 1917 | |
Broodseinde | 4 October 1917 | |
Poelcappelle | 9 October 1917 | |
First Passchendaele | 12 October 1917 | |
Second Passchendaele | 26 October - 10 November 1917 | |
Battle of Cambrai, 1917 | ||
The Tank Attack | 20-21 November 1917 | |
Capture of Bourlon Wood | 23-28 November 1917 | |
The German Counter-Attacks | 30 November - 3 December 1917 | |
The German Offensives 1918 | First Battles of the Somme, 1918 Second Battle of the Somme (1918) During the First World War, the Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought on the Western Front from the end of the summer, in the basin of the Somme River... |
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St. Quentin | 21 - 23 March 1918 | |
Actions at the Somme Crossings | 24 - 25 March 1918 | |
First Bapaume | 24 - 25 March 1918 | |
Rosieres | 26 - 27 March 1918 | |
First Arras, 1918 Arras 1918 (Battle honour) Arras 1918 was a battle honour awarded to units of the British and Imperial Armies that took part in one or more of the following engagements in the Great War:*First Battle of Arras, 28 Mar 1918*Second Battle of Arras, 26 Aug–3 Sep 1918... |
28 March 1918 | |
Avre | 4 April 1918 | |
Capture of Hamel | 4 July 1918 | |
Battles of the Lys | ||
Estaires (First Defence of Givenchy, 1918) | 9 - 11 April 1918 | |
Hazebrouck | 12 - 15 April 1918 | |
Messines, 1918 (Loss of Hill 63) | 13 - 15 April 1918 | |
First Kemmel Ridge | 17 - 19 April 1918 | |
Action of La Becque | 28 June 1918 | |
The Advance To Victory 1918 Hundred Days Offensive The Hundred Days Offensive was the final period of the First World War, during which the Allies launched a series of offensives against the Central Powers on the Western Front from 8 August to 11 November 1918, beginning with the Battle of Amiens. The offensive forced the German armies to retreat... |
Battle of Amiens | 8 – 11 August 1918 |
Actions Around Damery | 15 – 17 August 1918 | |
Battle of the Scarpe | 26–30 August 1918 | |
Second Battles of the Somme, 1918 Second Battle of the Somme (1918) During the First World War, the Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought on the Western Front from the end of the summer, in the basin of the Somme River... |
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Albert, 1918 | 21 – 23 August 1918 | |
Second Bapaume | 31 August - 3 September 1918 | |
Second Battles of Arras, 1918 | ||
Scarpe, 1918 (Capture of Monchy-le-Preux) | 26 - 30 August 1918 | |
Drocourt-Queant Canal | 2 - 3 September 1918 | |
Battles of the Hindenburg Line | ||
Havrincourt | 12 September 1918 | |
Epehy | 18 September 1918 | |
Canal du Nord (Capture of Bourlon Wood) Battle of the Canal du Nord The Battle of Canal du Nord was part of a general Allied offensive against German positions on the Western Front during the Hundred Days Offensive of World War I. The battle took place in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, along an incomplete portion of the Canal du Nord and on the outskirts... |
27 September - 1 October 1918 | |
St. Quentin Canal | 29 September - 2 October 1918 | |
Beaurevoir Line | 3 - 5 October 1918 | |
Cambrai, 1918 (Capture of Cambrai) Battle of Cambrai (1918) The Battle of Cambrai was a battle between troops of the British First, Third and Fourth Armies and German Empire forces during the Hundred Days Offensive of the First World War. The battle took place in and around the French city of Cambrai, between 8 and 10 October 1918... |
8–9 October 1918 | |
Battle of Ypres, 1918 | 28 September – 2 October 1918 | |
Pursuit to the Selle | 9 - 12 October 1918 | |
Battle of Courtrai | 14 - 19 October 1918 | |
Battle of the Selle | 17 - 25 October 1918 | |
Battle of Valenciennes (Capture of Moot Houy) | 1 – 2 November 1918 | |
Battle of the Sambre | 4 November 1918 | |
Passage of the Grande Honnelle | 5 - 7 November 1918 | |
Capture of Mons | 11 November 1918 |
Other Theatres of War
- Macedonia 1915-17
- Dardanelles 1915-16
- Egypt and Palestine 1915-16, 1918
- North-West Persia and Caspian 1918-19
- Murman 1918-19
- Archangel 1918-19
- Siberia 1918-19
Anomalies
In the process of designating and awarding battle honours, some significant actions have "slipped between the cracks." As an example, the actions of the Canadian Cavalry Brigade at Moreuil WoodBattle of Moreuil Wood
The Battle of Moreuil Wood was an engagement of World War I that took place on the banks of the Arve River in France, where the Canadian Cavalry Brigade attacked and forced the German 23rd Saxon Division to withdraw from Moreuil Wood, a commanding position on the river bank...
and Rifle Wood from 30 March to 1 April during the German Offensive of 1918, while significant and resulting in the award of a Victoria Cross to Lt. Gordon Flowerdew of the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), it did not result in the awarding of a battle honour.