List of Canadian battles during the First World War

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This is a list of battles during the First World War in which the Canadian Expeditionary Force participated.

France and Flanders

Campaign	Battle	Date
	Battle of Neuve Chapelle	10 March 1915
	St. Eloi	14–15 March 1915
Second Battle of Ypres	Battle of Gravenstafel Battle of Kitcheners' Wood	22–23 April 1915
	Battle of St. Julien	24 April 4 May 1915
	Battle of Frezenberg	8–13 May 1915
	Battle of Bellewaerde Ridge	24–25 May 1915
Second Battle of Artois	Battle of Aubers Ridge	9 May 1915
	Battle of Festubert	15–27 May 1915
	Second Action at Givenchy	15–16 May 1915
Third Battle of Artois	Battle of Loos Action of Bois Grenier Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt	25 September–19 October 1915
	Actions of St Eloi Craters	27 March–16 April 1916
	Battle of Mont Sorrel	2–13 June 1916
Battle of the Somme	Battle of Albert First day on the Somme	1–13 July 1916
	Battle of Bazentin Ridge Battle of Fromelles Attacks on High Wood	14–25 July 1916
	Battle of Pozières Battle of Mouquet Farm	1–3 September 1916
	Battle of Guillemont	3–6 September 1916
	Battle of Ginchy	9 September 1916
	Battle of Flers–Courcelette	15–22 September 1916
	Battle of Thiepval Ridge Capture of Le Sars	26–29 September 1916
	Battle of Le Transloy	1–18 October 1916
	Battle of the Ancre Heights Capture of Regina Trench Capture of Stuff Redoubt	1 October–11 November 1916
	Battle of the Ancre Capture of Beaumont-Hamel	13–18 November 1916
Battle of Arras	Battle of Vimy Ridge	9–12 April 1917
	First Scarpe, 1917	9–14 April 1917
	Second Scarpe, 1917 Attack on La Coulotte	23–24 April 1917
	Battle of Arleux	28–29 April 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	15–25 August 1917
	Battle of Messines	7–14 June 1917
Third Battle of Ypres	Battle of Pilckem Ridge	31 July–3 August 1917
	Battle of Langemarck	16–18 August 1917
	Battle of the Menin Road Ridge	20–25 September 1917
	Battle of Polygon Wood	26 September–3 October 1917
	Battle of Broodseinde	4 October 1917
	Battle of Poelcappelle	9 October 1917
	First Battle of Passchendaele Action of 22 October 1917	12–22 October 1917
	Second Battle of Passchendaele	26 October–10 November 1917
	Battle of Cambrai	20 November–8 December 1917
German spring offensive	Operation Michael St. Quentin Actions at the Somme Crossings First Bapaume Rosières First Arras Battle of Moreuil Wood Battle of the Avre	21 March–4 April 1918
	Battle of Hamel	4 July 1918
	Battles of the Lys Estaires (First Defence of Givenchy, 1918) Hazebrouck Messines (Loss of Hill 63) First Kemmel Ridge	9–17 April 1918
	Action of La Becque	28 June 1918
Hundred Days Offensive	Battle of Amiens Actions Around Damery Battle of the Scarpe	8–30 August 1918
	Second Battles of the Somme, 1918 Battle of Albert Second Battle of Bapaume Battle of Arras	21 August–3 September 1918
	Battle of the Scarpe	26–30 August 1918
	Drocourt-Queant Canal	2–3 September 1918
	Battle of Havrincourt	12 September 1918
	Battle of Épehy	18 September 1918
	Battle of the Canal du Nord	27 September – 1 October 1918
	Fifth Battle of Ypres	28 September – 2 October 1918
	Battle of St Quentin Canal Beaurevoir Line	29 September – 5 October 1918
	Battle of Cambrai	8–9 October 1918
	Battle of Courtrai	14–19 October 1918
	Battle of the Selle	17–25 October 1918
	Battle of the Lys and the Escaut Battle of Valenciennes Capture of Mons	1–11 November 1918
	Battle of the Sambre	4 November 1918
	Passage of the Grande Honnelle	5–7 November 1918

Other theatres of war

Gallipoli Campaign, 1915–16
Macedonian front, 1915–1917
Sinai and Palestine Campaign, 1915–16, 1918
North Russia Intervention, 1918–19
Persian Campaign, 1918–19
Siberian Intervention, 1918–19

References

Nicholson, G. W. L. (1962). Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914–1919 (PDF). Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War. Ottawa: Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery. OCLC 557523890. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 August 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2012.

External links

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World War I

Theatres

European	Balkans Serbia Western Front Eastern Front Romania Italian Front
Middle Eastern	Gallipoli Sinai and Palestine Caucasus Persia Mesopotamia Hejaz & Levant
African	South West East Kamerun Togoland North
Asian and Pacific	Tsingtao German Samoa German New Guinea
Naval warfare	U-boat campaign North Atlantic Mediterranean

Principal
participants

Entente Powers	Leaders Belgium Brazil China France French Empire Greece Hejaz Italy Japan Empire of Japan Montenegro Portuguese Empire Romania Russia Russian Empire Russian Republic Serbia Siam United Kingdom British Empire United States
Central Powers	Leaders Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Senussi South African Republic Darfur

Timeline

Pre-War conflicts	Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) Scramble for Africa (1880–1914) Russo-Japanese War (1905) Tangier Crisis (1905–06) Bosnian Crisis (1908–09) Agadir Crisis (1911) Italo-Turkish War (1911–12) First Balkan War (1912–13) Second Balkan War (1913)
Prelude	Origins Historiography Sarajevo assassination Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo July Crisis
1914	German invasion of Belgium Battle of the Frontiers Battle of Cer Battle of Galicia Russian invasion of East Prussia Battle of Tannenberg Siege of Tsingtao First Battle of the Masurian Lakes Battle of Grand Couronné First Battle of the Marne Siege of Przemyśl Race to the Sea First Battle of Ypres Black Sea raid Battle of Kolubara Battle of Sarikamish Christmas truce
1915	Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes Battle of Łomża Second Battle of Ypres Sinking of the RMS Lusitania Battle of Gallipoli Second Battle of Artois Battles of the Isonzo Gorlice–Tarnów offensive Great Retreat Bug-Narew Offensive Siege of Novogeorgievsk Vistula–Bug offensive Second Battle of Champagne Kosovo offensive Siege of Kut Battle of Loos Battle of Robat Karim
1916	Erzurum offensive Battle of Verdun Lake Naroch offensive Battle of Asiago Battle of Jutland Battle of the Somme first day Brusilov offensive Baranovichi offensive Battle of Romani Monastir offensive Battle of Transylvania
1917	Capture of Baghdad February Revolution Zimmermann telegram Second battle of Arras Second battle of the Aisne Kerensky offensive Battle of Mărăști Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) Battle of Mărășești Third Battle of Oituz Battle of Caporetto Southern Palestine offensive October Revolution Battle of La Malmaison Battle of Cambrai Armistice of Focșani Armistice between Russia and the Central Powers
1918	Operation Faustschlag Treaty of Brest-Litovsk German spring offensive Zeebrugge Raid Treaty of Bucharest of 1918 Battle of Goychay Second Battle of the Piave River Second Battle of the Marne Hundred Days Offensive Vardar offensive Battle of Megiddo Third Transjordan attack Meuse–Argonne offensive Battle of Vittorio Veneto Armistice of Salonica Armistice of Mudros Armistice of Villa Giusti Second Romanian campaign Armistice with Germany Naval Victory Bulletin Armistice of Belgrade
Co-belligerent conflicts	Somaliland campaign (1900–1920) Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) Maritz rebellion (1914–15) Muscat rebellion (1913–1920) Zaian War (1914–1921) Kurdish rebellions (1914–1917) Ovambo Uprising (1914–1917) Kelantan rebellion (1915) Senussi campaign (1915–1917) Volta-Bani War (1915–1917) National Protection War Arab Revolt (1916–1918) Central Asian Revolt (1916–17) Invasion of Darfur (1916) Easter Rising (1916) Kaocen revolt (1916–17) Russian Revolution (1917) Finnish Civil War (1918)
Post-War conflicts	Russian Civil War (1917–1921) Ukrainian–Soviet War (1917–1921) Armenian–Azerbaijani War (1918–1920) Armeno-Georgian War (1918) German Revolution (1918–19) Revolutions and interventions in Hungary (1918–1920) Hungarian–Romanian War (1918–19) Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19) Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920) Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920) Lithuanian Wars of Independence (1918–1920) Polish–Ukrainian War (1918–19) Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) Egyptian Revolution (1919) Polish–Lithuanian War (1919–1920) Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921) Irish War of Independence (1919–1921) Turkish War of Independence Anglo-Turkish War (1918–1923) Franco-Turkish War (1918–1921) Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) Turkish–Armenian War (1920) Iraqi Revolt (1920) Vlora War (1920) Franco-Syrian War (1920) Soviet–Georgian War (1921)

Aspects

Warfare

Conscription	Australia Canada Ottoman Empire United Kingdom Ireland United States

Casualties /
Civilian impact

British casualties
- Parliamentarians
Ottoman casualties
Sports
- Rugby
- Olympians

Disease	1899–1923 cholera pandemic 1915 typhus epidemic in Serbia Spanish flu
Occupations	Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia Bulgarian occupations Albania Serbia German occupations Belgium Luxembourg Northeast France Ober Ost Occupied Enemy Territory Administration Russian occupations Eastern Galicia Western Armenia
POWs	Germans in the United States Italians POW locations Canada Germany / camps Switzerland
Refugees	Belgian refugees Netherlands United Kingdom
War crimes	Allied blockades Eastern Mediterranean Mount Lebanon famine Germany Deportations from East Prussia Destruction of Kalisz Sack of Dinant Late Ottoman genocides Armenian genocide Assyrian genocide (Sayfo) Pontic Greek genocide Rape of Belgium Urkun (Kyrgyzstan) Massacres of Albanians Ukrainian Canadian internment

Diplomacy

Entry into the war	Austria-Hungary France Germany Italy Japan Ottoman Empire Russia United Kingdom United States
Declarations of war	Austria-Hungary against Serbia UK against Germany Ottomans against the Triple Entente USA against Germany USA against Austria-Hungary
Agreements	Constantinople Agreement Treaty of London Damascus Protocol Bulgaria–Germany treaty Treaty of Darin Sykes–Picot Agreement Sazonov–Paléologue Agreement Paris Economy Pact Treaty of Bucharest Agreement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Peace treaties	Modus vivendi of Acroma Treaties of Brest-Litovsk Russia–Central Powers Ukraine–Central Powers Treaty of Bucharest Paris Peace Conference Treaty of Versailles Treaty of St. Germain Treaty of Neuilly Treaty of Trianon Treaty of Sèvres Treaty of Lausanne

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