Line (also referred to as the Drocourt–Quéant Switch) ran between the French cities of Drocourt and Quéant and was part of a defensive system that ran from...
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Arthur George Knight (category Canadian World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross)
single day, 2 September 1918, for actions across the 30 km long Drocourt-Quéant Line near Arras, France. The other six recipients were Bellenden Hutcheson...
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the Messines salient, to the defences of Lille, the Wotanstellung (Wotan Position, known as the Drocourt-Quéant Line to the British) from Lille to Sailly...
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Hundred Days Offensive (redirect from Second Battle of Noyon)
Second Battle of Arras of 1918, which includes the Battle of the Scarpe (1918) (26 August) and the Battle of Drocourt-Queant Line (2 September). South of the...
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Claude Nunney (category Canadian World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross)
single day, 2 September 1918, for actions across the 30 km long Drocourt-Quéant Line near Arras, France. The other six were Bellenden Hutcheson, Arthur...
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4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) (category British military units and formations of the Crimean War)
of Inkerman and the Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 (famous for the Charge of the Light Brigade and the Thin Red Line). Commanding General:...
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The Quéant Road Cemetery, overseen by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department Battle of Drocourt-Quéant Line (1918)...
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the German line after capturing the rest of Péronne, France. Battle of Drocourt-Quéant Line – The Canadian Corps attacked the German line between the...
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Canada's Hundred Days (category Military history of Canada during World War I)
commemorates the Battle of the Scarpe (1918) and the Battle of Drocourt-Quéant Line The Bourlon Wood Memorial commemorates the final series of battles of the war...
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started with the Battle of the Drocourt-Quéant Line, Battle of Havrincourt and Battle of Epehy. The First Army was to lead the crossing of the Canal du Nord...
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George Fraser Kerr (category Canadian World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross)
Military Cross (MC) for his endeavours. Learning of the forthcoming offensive on the Drocourt-Quéant Line, for which his battalion was scheduled to participate...
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Canadian Corps seized control of the Drocourt-Quéant line (representing the west edge of the Hindenburg Line). The battle was fought by the Canadian 1st Division...
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Bellenden Hutcheson (category Canadian World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross)
the Drocourt-Quéant Support Line with his battalion, remaining on the field until every wounded man had been attended to. He dressed the wounds of a seriously...
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31st Battalion (Alberta), CEF (category Battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force)
Battle of Amiens (1918), the Battle of Arras (1917), Battle of Drocourt-Quéant Line, Valenciennes, Mons, and the occupation of the Rhineland. The battalion...
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between maintaining the front line, strengthening the third line and the new Wotanstellung (Drocourt–Quéant switch line) further back. After the Allied...
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1st Battalion (Ontario Regiment), CEF (category Battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force)
1917 Arleux Scarpe 1917, 1918 Hill 70 Passchendaele Amiens Drocourt –Queant Hindenburg Line Canal du Nord Pursuit to Mons France and Flanders 1915-1918...
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1918 in Canada (category Years of the 20th century in Canada)
Battle of Drocourt-Quéant Line September 9–12 – Battle of the Hindenburg Line September 27 – October 2 – Battle of Canal du Nord October 8–9 – Battle...
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Queen's Rangers (1st American Regiment) (category Ranger regiments of Canada)
1917 Hill 70 Ypres, 1917 Passchendaele Amiens Scarpe, 1918 Drocourt-Quéant Hindenburg Line Canal du Nord Cambrai, 1918 Pursuit to Mons France and Flanders...
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9 Parachute Squadron RE (category Airborne units and formations of the United Kingdom)
(1995). Strong as the Rock of Gibraltar. Gibraltar: Exchange Publications. OCLC 48491998. Joslen, H. F. (2003). Orders of Battle, United Kingdom and Colonial...
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14th Battalion (Royal Montreal Regiment), CEF (category Battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force)
Hill 70 Passchendaele Amiens Drocourt-Quéant Hindenburg Line Canal du Nord Pursuit to Mons France and Flanders, 1915-18 List of infantry battalions in the...
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256th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (category Siege batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery)
on 1 September, and next day the Canadians assaulted the Drocourt–Quéant (D–Q) Switch Line, for which the howitzers laid a barrage onto the first objective...
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54th Battalion (Kootenay), CEF (category Battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force)
following battle honours: SOMME, 1916 Ancre Heights Ancre, 1916 ARRAS, 1917, '18 Vimy, 1917 HILL 70 Ypres 1917 Passchendaele AMIENS Scarpe, 1918 Drocourt-Quéant...
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Drocourt–Quéant Hindenburg Line Canal du Nord Pursuit to Mons France and Flanders, 1915–18 Selected to be borne on colours and appointments List of infantry...
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Royal Grenadiers (category Grenadier regiments of Canada)
"WWI – Drocourt-Quéant". Government of Canada. Retrieved 1 August 2022. Defence, National (22 July 2019). "WWI – Hindenburg Line". Government of Canada...
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the infantry met opposition. VI Corps attacked again at the Battle of Drocourt-Quéant Line on 2 September. 2nd Division in reserve assigned 6th Bde to...
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9th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (category Heavy batteries of the Royal Garrison Artillery)
sections moved up next day, as the Canadians broke through the Drocourt-Quéant Switch Line. The enemy then withdrew a distance, so the battery moved to a position...
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Arthur Currie (category Canadian Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George)
Denis Winter called the seizure of the Drocourt–Quéant line by the Canadian Corps the "greatest single achievement" of the British Expeditionary Force...
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Reginald Barnes (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
August 1927. p. 5396. Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2b: The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th–69th)...
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Leicestershire Royal Horse Artillery (category Artillery units and formations of World War I)
Battle of Albert (21 – 23 August), Battle of Drocourt-Quéant Line (2 and 3 September), Battle of the Canal du Nord (27 September – 1 October), Battle...
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8th Battalion (90th Winnipeg Rifles), CEF (category Battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force)
Passchendaele Amiens Scarpe 1918 Drocourt-Quéant Hindenburg Line Canal du Nord Pursuit to Mons France and Flanders, 1915-18 List of infantry battalions in the...
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