Trench Warfare, 1915

Battle of Neuve Chapelle

March 10

Action of St Eloi

March 14-15

Battle of Ypres

April 22 -May 25

• Gravenstafel Ridge (The Gas Attack)
• St. Julien
• Frezenberg Ridge
• Bellewaarde Ridge

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Cloth Hall Tower, Ypres, [ca. 1918]
Photographer Unknown
Canadian Expeditionary Force albums
Black and white print
Reference Code: C 224-0-0-9-1
Archives of Ontario, I0004760

Battle of Aubers Ridge

May 9

Battle of Festubert

May 17 - May 25

Second Action of Givenchy, 1915

June 15-16

Battle of Loos

September 25 -October 8

• Action of Bois is Grenier

Actions of the Hohenzollern Redoubt

October 13 -19

Trench Warfare, 1916

Actions of St. Eloi Craters

March 27 - 16 April 16

Battle of Mount Sorrel

June 2 - June 13

The Allied Offensive, 1916

The Battles of the Somme

July 1 - November 18

• Albert, 1916
• Bazentin Ridge
• Attack at Fromelles
• Attacks on High Wood
• Pozieres Ridge
• Guillemont
• Ginchy
• Flers-Courcelette
• Thiepval Ridge
• Le Transloy Ridges
• Ancre Heights
• The Ancre, 1916

The Advance to the Hindenburg Line 1917

German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line

March 24 - 29

The Allied Offensive, 1917

Battle of Arras, 1917

April 9 - May 4

• Vimy Ridge
• First Scarpe, 1917
• Second Scarpe, 1917
• Attack on la Coulotte
• Third Scarpe, 1917 (Capture of Fresnoy)

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The taking of Vimy Ridge, Canadian Field Artillery bringing up the guns, 1917
Unknown photographerher
Black and white print
Canadian Expeditionary Force albums
Reference Code: C 224-0-0-9-30
Archives of Ontario, I0004789

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The taking of Vimy Ridge, parties of Germans leaving their dugouts as Canadians advance, 1917
Unknown photographerher
Black and white print
Canadian Expeditionary Force albums
Reference Code: C 224-0-0-9-31
Archives of Ontario, I0004790

Affairs South of the Souchez River

June 3 - 25

Capture of Avion

June 26 - 29

Battle of Hill 70

August 15 - 25

The Battle of Messines, 1917 (Capture of Wytschaete)

June 7-14

The Battles of Ypres, 1917

July 31 - November 10

• The Battles of Ypres, 1917
• Pilckem Ridge
• Langemarck, 1917
• Menin Road Ridge
• Polygon Wood
• Broodseinde
• Poelcappelle
• First Passchendaele
• Second Passchendaele

Battle of Cambrai, 1917

November 20 - December 3

• The Tank Attack
• Capture of Bourlon Wood
• The German Counter-Attacks
  The German Offensives, 1918

The German Offensive 1918

The First Battles of the Somme, 1918

March 21 - April 4

• St. Quentin
• Actions at the Somme Crossings
• First Bapaume
• Rosieres
• First Arras, 1918
• Avre

Capture of Hamel

July 4

The Battle of the Lys

April 9 - 19

• Estaires (First Defence of Givenchy, 1918)
• Messines, 1918 (Loss of Hill 63)
• Hazebrouck
• Bailleul (Defence of Neuve Eglise)
• First Kemmel Ridge

Action of La Becque

June 28

The Advance to Victory, 1918

Battle of Amiens

August 8 - 11

Actions round Damery

August 15-17

The Second Battles of the Somme, 1918

August 21 - September 3

• Albert, 1918
• Second Bapaume

The Second Battles of Arras

August 26 - September 3

• Scarpe, 1918 (Capture of Monchy-le-Preux)
• Drocourt-Queant Canal

The Battles of the Hindenburg Line

September 12 - October 9

• Havrincourt
• Epehy
• Canal du Nord (Capture of Bourlon Wood)
• St. Quentin Canal
• Beaurevoir Line
• Cambrai, 1918 (Capture of Cambrai)

Battle of Ypres, 1918

September 28 - October 2

Pursuit to the Selle

October 9-12

Battle of the Courtrai

October 14-19

Battle of the Selle

October 17-25

Battle of Valenciennes (Capture of Mont Houy)

November 1 - 2

Battle of the Sambre

November 4

Passage of the Grande Honnelle

November 5 - 7

Capture of Mons

November 11

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales taking a
walk in Mons [ca. 1918]
Unknown photographer
Black and white print
Canadian Expeditionary Force albums
Reference Code: C 224-0-0-10-45
Archives of Ontario, I0004855

*Adapted from, Col. G.W.L. Nicholson, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919: The Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War (Ottawa, 1964), 554-556.

Related Links:

• Library and Archives Canada - Soldiers of the First World War (1914-1918)
  
• Veterans Affairs Canada - The Canadian National Vimy Memorial
  
• John F. Mould fonds

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