• 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 World...
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    the battles in 1917 at Arras, Messines, Passchendaele and Cambrai. A decision to attack was taken by General Erich Ludendorff on 21 January 1918. At the...
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    The Battle of Arras took place on 21 May 1940, during the Battle of France in the Second World War. Following the German invasion of the Low Countries...
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    A battle honour is an award of a right by a government or sovereign to a military unit to emblazon the name of a battle or operation on its flags ("colours")...
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    The Battle of Arras (also known as the Second Battle of Arras) was a British offensive on the Western Front during the First World War. From 9 April to...
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    day of the battle as "the black day of the German Army". Amiens was one of the first major battles involving armoured warfare. On 21 March 1918, the German...
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    nearby, including the Battle of Arras (1914), the Battle of Arras (1917), and the Second Battle of the Somme component of 1918's Hundred Days Offensive...
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    The Battle of Vimy Ridge was part of the Battle of Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais department of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were...
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    The Third Battle of Doiran was fought from 18 to 19 September 1918, with the British and the Greeks assaulting the positions of the Bulgarian First Army...
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    The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza...
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    was open. The battle penetrated a majority of the defenses of the Hindenburg Line and allowed the next attack (the Battle of Cambrai (1918)) to complete...
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    The Battle of Megiddo was fought between 19 and 25 September 1918, on the Plain of Sharon, in front of Tulkarm, Tabsor and Arara in the Judean Hills as...
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    10th Battalion fought in the Arras battles of 1917 and 1918 though the official battle honour only reflects the 1917 battles (see footnote). Vimy, 1917:...
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    World War I (redirect from 1914-1918)
    Bottles": A Comparison of British and Canadian Preparations for the Battle of Arras". In Hayes, Geoffrey; Iarocci, Andrew; Bechthold, Mike (eds.). Vimy...
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    The Battle of Nablus took place, together with the Battle of Sharon during the set piece Battle of Megiddo between 19 and 25 September 1918 in the last...
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  • April 1918, and the Second Battle of Arras in August 1918. The Battle of Armentières was part of the so-called "Race to the Sea", the series of battles that...
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    the name of Arras Tunnel. The tunnel was named to honour the wartime efforts of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company in the French town of Arras during the...
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    at Thiepval. Also on the Pozieres Memorial to the missing of 1918 and notably the Arras memorial. Men of the Rifles are buried in Bedford House Cemetery...
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    awarded the honour Emsdorf to be worn on their helmets in commemoration of their success at the Battle of Emsdorf in 1760. The first battle honour displayed...
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  • brigade took part in the Battle of Arras and in the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele). The brigade was destroyed in the 1918 German spring offensive...
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    actions on one single day, 2 September 1918, for actions across the 30 km long Drocourt-Quéant Line near Arras, France. The other six were Bellenden Hutcheson...
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    Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, the Battle of the Somme in Autumn 1916 and the Battle of Arras in April 1917 before taking part in the Battle of Passchendaele...
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  • strength and served at Armentiers, Battle of Arras, and the final battles of 1918. The Brigade was disbanded in 1918. In March 1939 the TA expanded and...
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    known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death". List of Canadian battles during World War I Ulster Tower Thiepval After the Battle of Flers–Courcelette...
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    return to a strategy of decisive battle. Nivelle planned preliminary offensives to pin German reserves by the British at Arras and the French between the Somme...
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    Amiens. In the subsequent battle, the morale of the German forces was badly shaken. In Ludendorff's words, the battle of Arras was a "black day for the...
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    Robert Nivelle (category Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour)
    1914–1918, London 1952 Falls, C. (1940). Military Operations France and Belgium 1917: The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and the Battles of Arras (IWM...
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    and its forerunners have been awarded 248 battle and theatre honours since its formation. The first honour given to an Australian unit came prior to Federation...
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    available at Gallica Arras, Lens–Douai and the Battles of Artois. Michelin's Illustrated Guides to the Battlefields (1914–1918) (English ed.). Clermont-Ferrand:...
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    Adrian Carton de Wiart (category British Battle of the Somme recipients of the Victoria Cross)
    ankle at the Battle of the Somme, through the hip at the Battle of Passchendaele, through the leg at Cambrai, and through the ear at Arras. He went to...
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