Battles Nomenclature List

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Apri l 2008 Appendix 12

Eligibility and Entitlement GuideVolume 2

Summary of the battles and campaigns in whichBritish t roops were engaged1914-1919

Background 1 This appendix sets out, in tabular form, the main operations, the groups of

battles (ie those in which Armies were engaged), battles (in which forces notsmaller than corps were involved), actions (those in which a division wasinvolved) and lesser engagements which have been termed ‘affairs’.‘Capture’ is used to denote seizure after much fighting and ‘occupation’ hasbeen used to denote seizures without much fighting. ‘Attack’ is limited tounsuccessful attack and ‘defence’ to successful defence. The names usedare official names but alternative names are also given in brackets. It shouldbe noted that in some engagements allied troops also took part but theofficial names given by other Governments have been ignored. The groupsof Battles are shown in block letters.

2 The table is by theatres and then in rough chronological order, ie theoperations are in chronological order but battles and subsidiary incidentsmay not be.

3 Remember that the table is only a general guide and that from 23 August1914 until approximately 25 September 1914 and from 21 March 1918 until11 November 1918 there was much confused fighting in France andFlanders and that during the intervening period men were being woundedeven in relatively ‘quiet ‘ sectors. The location of the advanced medical unitsis only approximate and should be used for tracing only as a last resort. Thelist of locations is not exhaustive but is simply an indication of towns andvillages comparatively near the location of various battles which, at therelevant time, had medical units stationed in the vicinity. In most of the greatbattles in France and Flanders the casualties spread beyond the sectorperiphery.





Operations etc Battles, Actions etc Tactical Incidents Dates AdvancedMedical Unit

I France and Flanders

Arrival of BEF in France

9-16.8.14 Amiens

Battle of Mons with

subsidiaries:

Action at Elouqes

Rearguard Action at

Solesmes

23-24.8.14

24.8.14

25.8.14

Retreat from Mons Affair at Landrecies 25.8.14 Amiens

23.8.14 to Boulogne5.9.14 Battle of Le Cateau 26.8.14

Rearguard Affair at Le

Grand Fayt 26.8.14

Rearguard Affair at

Etreux 27.8.14

Affair at Carizy 28.8.14

Affair at Nery 1.9.14 BoulogneRearguard Action at

Crepy en Valois

1.9.14 Havre

Rearguard actions

near Villers Cotterets

1.9.14

First battle of Mame

1914

Passage of Petit

Mosin

6-10.9.14

Advance to the

Aisne

6.9.14 to

1.10.14 Battle of the Aisne

1914 with

subsequent:

Passage of the Mame

Passage of the Aisne

and capture of Aisne

Heights and Chemin

des Dames

12-15.9.14

20.9.14

Boulogne

And

Havre







Defence of Givenchy 20-21.12.14

Bethune

Winter Operations Chocques

First action ofGivenchy

25.1.15 Bethune

Affairs at Cuinchy 29.1.15 Bethune

1.2.15 Sailly

6.2.15

Summer Operations Battle of NeuveChapelle

10-13.3.15 Bethune

Estaires

Action at St. Eloi 14-15.3.15 Neuve Chapelle

Poperhinge

Capture of Hill 60 17-22.4.15 Poperhinge

Elverdinghe

Germans first useLiquid Fire

26.3.1915

Second Battle ofYpres 1915

22.4-25.5.15

Elverdinghe

Poperhinge

(1) GravenstafedRidge

Chlorine Gas first

used by Germans

22.-23.4.15 Vlamertinghe

(2) St Julien 24.4-4.5.15 Ypres

(3) Frezenberg Ridge 8-13.5.15 Steenvoorde

(4) Bellewaerde Ridge 24-25.5.15

Battle of AubersRidge

Attack on Fromelles 9.5.15 Estaires

Attack on Rue duBois

Bethune

Merville

Battle of Festubert 15-25.5.15 Bethune

Second Action ofGivenchy

15-16.6.15 Vendin

Merville

First attack onBellewaerde 16.6.15 Poperhinge





Actions at Hooge 19.7.15 Bailleul

30.7.15 Bazebrouck

9.8.15 Westoutre

Ypres

Battle of Loos withsubsidiaries

British first use

Chlorine Gas

25.9 –8.10.15

Nayelles

Aubigney

(1) Action of Pietre 25.9.15 Bethune

(2) Action of BoisGrenier

25.9.15 Merville, Aise

(3) Second attack on

Bellewaerde and

subsequent attacks

on the Hahenzollen

Redoubt

Phosphene gas firstused

25 –26.9.15

13 –19.10.15

19.12.15

Poperhinge

Bethune

Lozengham

Actions on the Bluff 14-15.2.16

Local Operations

in 1916 before the

Allied Offensive

Extension of

British Line

Actions at St EloiCraters

Ploegsteert Wood(Ypres)

German attack onVimy Ridge

Battle of Mount Sorrel

Take over of Arras

Sector

and 2.3.16

27.3-16.4.16

13.5.16

21.5.16

2-13.6.1916

March1916

Po;perhinge

Bailleul

Bruay

St Catherine

Bailleul





Allied Offensive

on the Somme

Battle of the Somme

1916 Amiens

1.7.16-18.11.16 (1) Albert Capture of

Mountauban

Mametz, Fricourt,

Contalmaison,

Boiselle

Corbie

Gezaincourt

Pouchevillers

Querrieu

with subsidiary attack

on Gommecourt

salient

(2) Bazentin Ridge

with subsidiary attack

at Fromelles and

subsequent attacks

on High Wood

Capture of Lonueval,

Trones Wood,

Ovillers

1.7.16

14-17.7.16

19.7.16

20-25.7.16

Bethune

Corbie

Gazaincourt

Bazentin

Allied Offensive

on the Somme

(3) Delville Wood 15.7-3.9.16 Allonville

Contay

1.7.16-18.11.16

(4) Pozieres Ridge

Last Gas Cloud (ie

from Cylinders)

against British

Moquet Farm

8.8.16

23.7-3.9.16 AllonvilleContay

(5) Guillemont 3-6.9.16

(6) Ginchy 9.9.16

(7) Flers-Coucelette Capture ofMartinpuich

15-22.9.16 Albert

First use of tanks

(8) Morval Capture of Combles,

Lesboeufs,Gueudecourt

25-28.9.16 Corbie

Doullens





(9) Thiepval Ridge Varennes

(10) Transloy Ridge Capture of Eaucourt

L’Abbaye, le Sars

Attack on Butte de

Warlencourt

1-18.10.16

(11) The AncreHeights

Capture of

Schwaben, Stuff

Redoubts and Regina

Trench

1.10-11.11.16

Gezaincourt

(12) The Ancre 1916 Capture of Beaumont

Hamel

13-18.11.16

Albert

Varennes

Operations on the

Ancre

11.1.17-13.3.17

Action at Miraumont

Capture of Thilloys

Capture of Iries

17-18.2.17

25.2.-

2.3.17

Wariencourt

Varennes

German Retreat to the

Hidenburg Line

(Siegfried Line)

14.3.17-5.4.17

Capture of Bapaume

Occupation of

Peronne

17.3.17 Aveluy

Bray sur Somme

Allied Offensive

At Arras

9.4.17-15.5.17

Battle of Arr as 1917

(1) Vimy Ridge First

Battle of Scarpe

1917

(2) Second Battle of

Scarpe 1917 with

subsidiary attack on

Capture of Monchy

Capture of Wancourt

First use of gas

thrown by Livens

projector by British

Capture of

Guemappe

9.4-4.5.17

9-14.4.17

23-24.4.17

Aubigney

Avesnes

Doullens





- with flankingoperations:(a) round Bullecourt11.4.17 – 16.6.17

(b) towards Lens 3.6.17-26.8.17

La Coniotte

(3) Arleux

(4) Third battle ofScarpe 1917

First attack ofBullecourt

Battle of Bullecourt

Hindenburg Line

South of SouchezRiver

Capture of Avion

Battle of Hill 70

Gavrelle

Capture of Fresneywith subsequentcapture of Rouex andOppy Wood

Mustard gas used byGermans at Cambrai

28-29.4.17

3-4.5.17

13-14.5.17

11.4.17

3-17.5.17

20.5 –16.6.17

26-29.6.17

15-25.8.17

12-13.7.17

Avesnes

Doullens

Doullens

Doullens

Aubigney

Bruay

Avesnes

Allied FlandersOffensive

7.6.17 – 10.11.17

Second Battle ofMessines

German attack onNieuport

Third Battle of Ypres1917

(1) Pilckem Ridgewith subsequentcapture of Westhoek

(2) Langemarck 1917

(3) Menin Road

(4) Polygon Wood

(5) Broodseide

(6) Poelcappelle

(7) First ofPasschendaele

(8) Second of

Passchendaele

Capture ofWytschaete

7-14.6.17

10-11.7.17

31.7 –10.11.17

31.7 –2.8.17

15.8.17

16-18.8.17

20-25.9.17

26.9 –3.10.17

4.10.17

9.10.17

12.10.17

26.10-

10.11.17

Mont des OatsRemy Siding(at Abeele)Dunkirk

Bailleul

Hazelbrouck

Proven

Popperhinge

Ypres





The CambraiOperations 20.11.17 –7.12.17

German Offensive inPicardy 21.3.18-5.4.18

Battle of Cambrai1917

With subsequentaction on WelchRidge

First Battle of theSomme 1918

(1) St Quentin actionat Somme crossings

(2) First of Bapaume

(3) Rosieres

(4) First of Arras 1918

(5) The Avre

(6) The Ancre 1918with subsequent

(a) action at VillersBretonneux

(b) capture of Hamel

Tank attack

Capture of Bourion

Wood GermanCounter attack

20.11-3.12.17

20-21.11.17

23-28.11.17

30.11-3.12.17

30.12.17

21.3-5.4.18

21-12.3.1824-25.3.18

24-25.3.18

26-27.3.18

28.3.18

4.4.18

4.7.18

Achiet-le-Grand

Arras

Grevillers

St Aubin

Rosieres

Varennes Amiens

Varennes

Amiens

Doullens

Amiens

Varennes

German Offensive inFlanders 9.4.18-29.4.18

Battle of the Lys

(1) Estaires

(2) Third of Messines1918

(3) Hazelbrouck

(4) Bailleul

(5) First of KemmelRidge

(6) Bethune

First defence ofGivenchy 1918

Loss of Hill 63Defence of HingesRidge and NieppeForest

Defence of NeuveEglise

Second defence ofGivenchy 1918

9-29.4.18

9-11.4.18

10-11.4.18

12-15.4.18

13-15.4.18

17-19.4.18

18.4.18

Merville

St Omer





(7) Second ofKemmel Ridge

(8) Scherpenberg withsubsequent:

(a) action at LeBacque

(b) capture of Meteren

25-26.4.18

29.4.18

28.6.18

19.7.18

German Offensive inChampagne 27.5.18-6.6.18

Third Battle of the Aisne 1918

27.5-6.6.18

Counter attack inChampagne 20.7.18-2.8.18

Second Battle ofMarne 1918

(1) Soissonnais andOurcq

(2) Tardenois

Attack on Buzany(28.7.18) and captureof Beugneux Ridgefighting for the ArdreValley

20.7-2.8.18

23.7-2.8.18

20-31.7.18

Soissons

Advance in Picardy18.8.18-3.9.18

Advance in Flanders18.8.18-6.9.18

Battle of Amiens withsubsequent actionround Damery

Second Battle of theSomme 1918

(1) Albert 1918

(2) Second ofBapaume

Occupation ofPeronne

Action atOuttersteene Ridge

Capture of Chuignes

Capture of MonsSt Quentin

8-11.8.18

15-17.8.18

21.8-3.9.18

21-23.8.18

31.8-3.9.18

1.9.18

18.8.18

Amiens

Boves

Varennes

Boves

Breaking of theHindenburg Line26.8.18-12.10.18including the pursuit tothe Selle

Second Battle of Arras 1918

(1) The Scarpe 1918

(2) Drocourt QueantLine

Battle of theHindenburg Line

(1) Havrincourt

(2) Epehy

Capture of Moncy-le-Preux

26.8-3.9.18

26-30.8.18

2-3.9.18

12.9-9.10.18

12.9.18

18.9.18

Aubigney

Arras

Beaurains

Wancourt

Queant

Combles





(3) Canal du Nord

(4) St Quentin Canal

(5) Beaurevoir Line

(6) Cambrai 1918

Capture of Bourlon

Passage atBellenglise andcapture of BellicourtTunnel Defences

Capture of Villers-Outreaux andCambrai

27.9-2.10.18

29.9-2.10.18

3-5.10.18

8-9.10.18

9-12.10.18

Queant

Tincourt

The Final AdvanceFlanders 28.9.18 –11.11.18

Artois2.10.18 –11.11.18

Picardy17.10.18 –11.11.18

Battle of Ypres 1918

Battle of Courtrai withsubsequent

(1) action atOotegham

(2) action at Tiegham

Capture of Douai

Battle of Selle

Battle ofValenciennes

Battle of Sambre

With subsequent

(1) Passage ofGrande Honnelle

(2) Capture of Mons

Capture of MountHouy

Passage of Sambre-Oise Canal

Capture of LeQuesnoy

28.9-2.10.18

14-19.10.18

25.10.18

31.10.18

17.10.18

17-25.10.18

1-2.11.18

4.11.18

5-7.11.18

11.11.18

YpresHazelbrouck

Brielen

Ypres

Auby

St Amand

Douai

Valenciennes

II Dardanelles(Gallipoli)Helles Operation25.4.15 –8.1.16

Helles

(1) The landing withsubsidiary landing atKum Kale

(2) First of Krithia

Capture of Sedd elBahr

25.4-6.6.15

25-26.4.15

28.4.15

Cape Helles





Actions at EskiHissarlik

(3) Second of Krithiawith first action atKereves Dere

Affair at Gurkha Bluff

1-2.5.15

12.5.15

Helles Operation25.4.15 –8.1.16

Including the evacuationof Helles 7-8.1.16

(4) Third of Krithiawith second action atKeveres Dere

Third action atKeveres Dere

Action at Gully Ravine

Fourth action atKeveres Dere

Action at Achi BabaNullah

Action at KrithiaVineyard

Affair at KrithiaNullahs

The last Turkishattacks

4.6.15

21.6.15

28.6-2.7.15

30.6.15

12-13.7.15

13.9.15

29.12.15

7.1.16

Cape Helles

Anzac and SuviaOperations25.4.15 –20.12.15

Anzac

(1) The landing

Attack on theChessboard

Affair at Quinns Post

(2) Defence of Anzac

Affair at Holly Ridge

Defence of Walker’sRidge

Sulva

(1) Sari Bair

(2) The landing at

Suvia

Capture of Lone Pine

Attack at Russell’sTop

Capture of Karakoi

Dagh and ChocolateHill

25.4-30.6.15

24-25.4.15

2.5.15

10.5.15

19-21.5.15

28.6.15

30.6.15

6-10.8.15

6-15.8.15

Anzac Cave

Suvia Bay





Including the evacuationat Suva and Anzac

(3) Scimitar Hill withsubsidiary action atHill 60 (Anzac)

Attack on “W” Hill 21.8.15

21-27.8.15

III Italy

Italian Offensive 1917

The Austrian Offensive1917 including theretreat to the Piave

10 th Battle of theIsonzo



Only British heavyartillery took place inthe above battle

The Stand on theCarso

12.5-8.6.17

17.8-12.9.17

24.10-18.11.17

Canneto

Mantua

Montagnana

Austrian Offensive 1918

Italian Offensive 1918

Battle of the Piave

Battle of Vittorio

Veneto

Fighting on the Asiago Plateau

Passage of the Piavefighting in the Vald’Assa

15-24.6.1815-16.6.18

24.10-4.11.18

23.10-4.11.18

1-4.11.18

Dueville

Dueville

Mirano

IV Macedonia(Salonica)

Retreat from Serbia onSalonica (Dec 1915)

Doiran Operation

1916

Operations in theStruma Valley(1916 – 1918)

1917 Offensive

1918 Offensive

Actions at Kosturino

Affairs at HorseshoeHill

Action at Machukovo

Action at Karajakoi’sincluding the captureof Yenkoi

Affair at BarakliJuma’a

Doiran 1917 (Vardar)

Capture of Roche

Noir Salient

7-8.12.15

10-18.8.16

13-14.9.16

30.9-4.10.16

13.10.16

24-25.4.17

8-9.5.17

1-2.9.18

SalonicaDoiran

Salonica

Salonica

Salonica





Including the pursuit tothe Strumitsa Valley

Doiran 1918(Monastir)

18-19.9.18

22-30.9.18

Doiran

Strumica

V Egypt and Palestine

Defence of the SuezCanal

26.1.15 – 12.8.16

Actions on the SuezCanal

Affair at Qatia

Battle of Rumani

3-4.2.15

23.4.16

4-5.8.16

Suez

Ismailia

Operations in Sinia

Peninsula

15.11.16-16.9.17

Affair at Magdhaba

Action at Rafah

23.12.16

9.1.17

Ismaillia

Port SaidSuez

Offensive in Palestine First battle of Gaza

Second Battle ofGaza

Third Battle of Gaza

Affair at Huj

Action at El Murgharwith subsequentoccupation ofJunction Station andJaffa

Capture of Beershebaand Sheira Position

26-27.3.17

17-19.4.17

27.10-7.11.17

8.11.17

13.11.17

14.11.17

Rafah

El Arish

Deir el Balah

Jerusalem Operations17.11.17 –30.12.17

Battle of Nebi Samwil

Capture of JerusalemDefence of Jerusalemwith subsidiary Battleof Jaffa

17-24.11.17

7-9.12.1721-22.12.17

Gaza

Junction StnJaffa

Jordan ValleyOperations

19.2.18 –4.5.18

Capture of Jericho

Passage of theJordan

First action at Es Salt

First attack on Anman

19-21.2.18

21-22.3.18

24-25.3.18

27-30.3.18

Jerusalem

Lydda (Ludd)

Jerusalem





Local Operations

Turkish attacks onJordan Bridgeheads

Second attack at EsSalt

Action at Tel Asur

Affair at Abu Telul

11.4.18

30.4-4.5.18

8-12.3.18

14.7.18

Ram Allah

The Final Offensive

Including pursuitthrough Syria

Megiddo

(1) Sharon

(2) Nablus

Actions beyond theJordan

Capture of Anman

Capture of Dera’a

Capture of Damascus

Affair at Haritan withoccupation of Aleppo

26.10.18

19-25.9.18

23-30.9.18

25.9.18

27.9.18

1.10.18

Jaffa

Ram Allah

Ram Allah

Jerusalem

Damascus

VI Mesopotamia

Basra Operations6.11.14 –14.4.15

Landing at Fao

Affair at Salihan

Affair at Sahil

Occupation of Basra

First action at Qurna

Affair at Ahwaz

Affair at Shaiba

Battle of Shaiba

6.11.14

15.11.14

17.11.14

22.11.14

4-8.12.14

3.3.15

3.3.15

12-14.4.15

Basra

Advance up the Tigris31.5.15 –5.10.15with subsidiaryoperations on theKarkha River7.5 – 3.6.15

Second action atQuma

Occupation of Amara

Battle of Kut 1915

Affair at Khafajiya

31.5.15

3.6.15

28.9.15

13-16.5.15

Amara





Advance up theEuphrates27.6 – 25.7.15

Actions at Nasiriya 5.7.15

13-14.7.15

24.7.15

Advance on Baghdad11.11 – 6.12.15

Battle of Cresiphone

Affair of Umm atTubul

22-24.11.15

1.12.15

Kut

Defence of Kut The Christmas Eveattack

7.12.15 –28.1.16

Kut

Attempts to relieve Kut

First attempt 4-23.1.16

Second attempt7-10.3.16

Third attempt 1-24.4.16

Action at ShaikhSa’ad

Action at the Wadi

First attack on Hanna

Attack on DujailaRedoubt

Action at Falahiya andcapture of Hanna

First attack on Sanna-i-Yat

Second attack onSanna-i-Yat

Action at Bait Aissa

Third attack onSanna-i-Yat

Capitulation of Kut

4.1-24.4.16

6-8.1.16

13-14.1.16

21.1.16

8.3.16

5.4.16

6.4.16

22.4.16

17-18.4.16

22.4.16

29.4.16

Amara

Basra

Amara

Basra

Euphrates Operation Affair at Butaniya

Action at As Sahilan

14.1.16

11.9.16

Basra

Nasiriya

Operations for theCapture of Baghdad andsubsequentconsolidation

Battle of Kut 1917

Capture of Kadari

Capture of Hai Salient

Capture of Dahra

Bend

9.1-24.2.17

9-19.1.17

25.1-5.2.17

9-16.2.17 Basra





Passage of the Diyala

Occupation ofBaghdad

Action at Nushaidiya

First Action at JabalHamrin

Affair at Dali Abbas

Affair at Dogame

Capture of Sanna-i-Yat

Passage at Shumranbend

17-24.2.17

23-24.2.17

7-10.3.17

11.3.17

14.3.17

25.3.17

27-28.3.17

29.3.17

Baghdad

Affair at Nahr Khalis

Passage of the Adhaim

Action at Istabulat

Occupation ofSamarra

Affairs on the Shatt-al-Adhaim

9-15.4.17

18.4.17

21-22.4.17

23-24.4.17

30.4.17

Baghdad

Euphrates Operations1917 - 1918

Attack on Ramedi

Capture of Ramedi

Action at KhanBaghdadi

Occupation of Ana

Blockade of Najaf

11-14.7.17

28-29.9.17

26-27.3.18

28.3.18

1-13.4.18

Baghdad

Basra

Nasiriya

Tigris Operations 1917 Second action atJabal Hamrin

Action at Tikrit

Third action at JabalHamrin

18-20.10.17

24.10, 2.11& 5.11.17

3-6.12.17

BaghdadBasra

Nasiriya

Kirkuk Operations Action at TuzKhumatil

29.4.18 Kirkuk





Advance on Mosul Action at Fatha Gorge

Action on the LesserZab

Battle of Sharqat

Affair at Qaiyara

Occupation of Mosul

23-24.10.18

25.10.18

28-30.10.18

30.10.18

3.11.18

Samarra

TikritBaghdad

Baiyai

Mosul

VII North RussiaMurmansk OperationsSeizure of the railways

Disarmament of theBolshevicks as far asSoroki

29.6.1812.10.1829-30.6.18

Operations in Karelia

Winter Operations

Advance to Lake Onega

Lake Onega

Withdrawal Operations

Capture ofUkhtinskaya

Capture ofVoknavolotskaya

Action nearPyavozero Lake

Occupation ofRugozerski

Capture of Segeja

Transfer of Troops to Archangel Front

Capture of Urosozero

Capture ofMaselskaya

Occupation ofPovyenets

Capture of MedvyejyaGora

Capture ofKyapeselga

Flotilla Actions

Action atSvyatnavolotski

Capture of Lijma

11.9.18

21.9.18

3.10.18

16.1.19

18.2.19

Feb – April1919

11.4.19

3.5.19

18.5.19

21.5.19

5.7.19

5.6.193.7.192.8.1928.8.19

27.8.19

14-16.9.19

Murmansk




Eligibility and Entitlement GuideV l 2

The Evacuation 1-12.10.19

Archangel Operations

Seizure of Ports andinitial advance

Defensive Operations

(a) on the Onego Riverand the VologdaRailway

(b) between the VologdaRailway and the DvinaRiver

(c) on the Dvina andVaga Rivers

(d) on the Pinega River

Withdrawal operations

Capture of Archangel

Affair at Chunovskaya

Affair at Puchuga

Affairs atObozetskaya

Actions at Chamova

Affairs on the YemtsaRiver

Affair at Seletski

Affair near Chekuevo

Affairs at Klashevo

Affair near BolshiOzerki

Defence of BolshiOzerki

Affairs at Tarasova

Attack on Kadish

Defence ofStredmekhrenga

Affair at Tulga

Defence of Shenkursk

Affairs round Vistavka

Affair at Ignatyevskoe

First affair at Ust-Pocha

Battle of Troitsa

Affair at Yemtsa

Second affair at Ust-Pocha

The Evacuation

1.8.18 –27.9.19

1-2.8.18

3.8.18

24.8.18

31.8 –4.9.18

12-14.9.18

16-29.9.18

11.10.18

12-17.10.18

27.12.18

17.3-18.4.18

22-23.7.18

25-29.1.19

7.2.19

8-11.2.19

11-13.11.18

16-25.1.19

1-10.3.19

26.6.19

1-2.6.19

10.8.19

29-31.8.19

4.9.19

27.9.19

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