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Day 1
-Canadian Corps advances 12 km, captured 5,000 Germans and 161 guns
-the Germans lost more ground than on any other day
-General Ludendorff of the German army writes “August 8th was the black day of the German Army in the history of this war.”
-Victoria Cross Recipients ~Cpl. H. G. B. Miner, 58th Battalion, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division
~Pte. J. B. Croak, 13th Battalion, 1st Canadian Infantry Division -
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Canada 100 Days
The last hundred days before the First World War was officially ended. -
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Operation: The Advance in Picardy
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Stats through August
- Casualties is 11,822
- Canadian Corps advance 22.5 km
- Captured more than 9,000 prisoners , 200 guns, 1000 machine guns and trench mortars
- Liberated 27 villages
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Battle of Amiens
- the battle was the first to incorporate an all-armed co-ordinated attack, bringing together artillery, tanks, infantry and aircraft -Allied losses numbered 22,200 killed wounded and missing -German losses were an astounding 74,000 killed, wounded, and captured
- Canada, Austrailia, and Britain advanced under a barrage
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Day 2
Victoria Cross recipients:
•Lt Jean Brillant, M.C., 22nd Battalion, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division
•Sgt R. L. Zengel, M.M., 5th Battalion, 1st Canadian Infantry Division
•Cpl F. C. Coppins, 8th Battalion, 1st Canadian Infantry Division
•LCpl Alexander Brereton, 8th Battalion, 1st Canadian Infantry Division -
Day 3
- Canadian Corps troops advance farthest east than any formation of the British Fourth Army
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Maze of Enemy Trenches
-the troops of the Canadian Corps are engaged in clearing the maze of enemy trenches between the villages of Fouquescourt and Parvillers
-gain entry into Parvillers, but cannot occupy the village due to a violent German counterattack -
Day 8, 9, 10 August August 15th, 16th, 17th 1918
- Actions around Damery
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Actions Around Damery
-Parvillers is secured
- Other troops enter Damery, which, against shelling and counterattack, they are able to hold, taking some 200 prisoners.
- Canadian Corps occupy the village of Fransart
-Three attempts by other Canadian troops to get into La Chavatte fail, nor can strong patrols penetrate Fresnoy-les-Roye.
-Canadian Corps clear troublesome trenches north of La Chavatte and troops are able to secure the village
- Attempts to reach Fresnoy are abandoned -
Day 12
- Win back British territory east of Chillt-Lions road from the Germans
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Day 13
The Advance to the Hindenburg Line and the Canal Du Nord, 20th August to 26th September
- Casualties from August 8th to 20th is 11,822
- Canadian Corps advance 22.5 km
- Captured more than 9,000 prisoners , 200 guns, 1000 machine guns and trench mortars
- Liberated 27 villages -
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The Advance to the Hindenburg Line and the Canal Du Nord
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Day 15
- General Arthur Currie, Commander of the Canadian Corps outlines attack of ‘Battle of the Scarpe” on either side of the Arras-Cambrai road, to his divisional commanders
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Day 19
- The Battle of Scarpe opening day
- Canadian Corps advance 5.5 km
- Capture Monchy-le-Preux and Wancourt
- Vitoria Cross Recipient ~ Lt. C. S.Rutherford M. C., M. M., 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division
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Second Battle of Arras AKA Second Battle of Sommmes
-fought on the Western Front in the basin of the Somme River
-complex, two-operation conflict ; the Scarpe,the Drocourt-Quéant Line ; both part of the overall Allied strategy of exhausting the enemy who was already retreating eastward -
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Battle of Scarpe
-resulted in an Allied advance of no less than eight kilometres -
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Stats from August 26th to October 11th (47 day)
- Advances 37km
- Casualties 1,544 officers and 29,262 other ranks
- Captures 18,585 prisoners
- 371 guns, 2000 machine guns
- Liberates 54 towns and villages
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Day 21
- Three days of intense fighting, 2nd and 3rd Canadian Infantry Division reported casualties of 254 officers, 5,547 other ranks
- Captured more than 3,300 prisoners, 53 guns, 519 machine guns
- Victoria Cross Recipient ~ LCol. W. H. Clark- Kennedy, 24th Battalion, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division
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Day 23
- Official end of the Battle of Scarpe
- Clear portions of the Fresnes-Rouvroy trench system
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Day 25
- Capture of Crow’s Nest
- 3 German counterattacks
- Captured 200 prisoners, nine trench mortars, 80 machine guns
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Day 26 and 27 September 2nd and 3rd 1918 Victoria Crosses
*CID = Canadian Infantry Division
•Cpl W.H.Metcalf, M.M., (American serving)16th Battalion, 1st CID
•LCol Cyrus W.Peck, 16th Battalion, 1st CID
•Capt B.S.Hutcheson, Canadian Army Medical Corps, attached to the 75th Battalion, 4th CID
•Sgt A. G. Knight, 10th Battalion, 1st CID
•Pte C.J.P.Nunney, D.C.M., M.M., 38th Battalion, 4th CID
•Pte W. L. Rayfield, 7th Battalion, 1st CID
•Pte J. F. Young, 87th Battalion, 4th CID -
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Battle of the Drocourt-Quéant Line
- Battle of the Drocourt- Queant Line
- Capture Buissy Switch, Villers-lez-Cagnicourt and Cagnicourt, Red Line, Dury -Casualties 297 officers and 5,325 other ranks
- Advanced 8 km
- Controls ground west of the Canal Du Nord, between Sains-lez-Marquain and Sensee River-Allied troops expelled the Germans from one of their vital defence systems, advancing another six kilometres and taking up new positions in front of the next obstacle, the Canal-du-Nord
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Day 32
- British and French troops reach the old Hindenburg Line
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Operation: The Battles of the Hindenburg Line
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The Battle of the Canal du Nord
-12 Victoria Crosses,awarded to British and Commonwealth forces (Canadian shown)
Captain John MacGregor, 2nd Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles.
Lieutenant Graham Thomson Lyall, 102nd (North British Columbia) Battalion, CEF.
Lieutenant Samuel Lewis Honey, 78th (Winnipeg) Battalion, CEF.
Lieutenant George Fraser Kerr, 3rd (Toronto) Battalion, CEF.
Lieutenant Milton Fowler Gregg, Royal Canadian Regiment.
Sergeant William Merrifield, 4th (Central Ontario) Battalion, CEF. -
Day 55
- End of the Battle of the Canal Du Nord
- Captured 7,000 prisoners, 205 guns
- Victoria Cross Recipient ~ Sgt. W. Merrifield, 4th Battalion 1st Canadian Infantry Division
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Day 63 The Battle of Cambrai
- 2nd Canadian Infantry Division advances 4km
- Captures Ramillies, Escaudoevres and Escwars
- Canadian Cavalry Brigade advances 13km
- Captures 400 prisoners and many weapons
- 168 men and 171 horses, killed, wounded or missing
- Victoria Cross Recipient ~ Capt. C. N. Mitchell, 4th Battalion, Canadian Engineers, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division
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The Pursuit to the Selle
-actions of the 1st, 3rd and 4th armies in driving the Germans back to the River Selle
-Victory Cross Recipients ~ Lt. W. L. Algie, 20th Battalion, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division -
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The Final Advance - Cambrai to Mons
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The Battle of Courtrai AKA Second Battle of Belgium AKA Battle of Rulers
-was one of a series of offensives in northern France and southern Belgium
-had captured Roulers, Ostend, Lille and Douai had been recaptured; Bruges and Zeebrugge -
Day 73
- Canadian Corps liberates 40 more communities including Denain ; advances 11 km (largest advance in a signal day) ;reached the Dutch border
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Day 79
- Battle of the Selle beginning October 17th involving British First, Third and Fourth Armies and Second American Corps is over
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Day 81
- Victoria Cross Recipient~ Major W. G. Barker. M. C. (3), D. S. O. (2) I. C. V., No. 139 Squadron, Royal Air Force
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Day 84
- Turkey, a German ally during the war, signs and armistice and ends its involvement in the First World War
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The Battle of Valenciennes
-was an offensive carried out by the British Third Army to advance to the French-Belgian border and the city of Valenciennes. The city was re-captured by Canadian troops on 2nd November.
- Capture 1,800 enemy soldiers and 800 dead on battlefield
- Canadian losses 80 killed, 300 wounded
- Victoria Cross Recipient ~ Sgt. Hugh Cairns, D. C. M., 46th Battalion, 4th Canadian Infantry Division -
Day 87
- The city (Valenciennes) was re-captured by Canadian troops
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Day 89
- The Battle of the Sambre -The Allied troops were to advance from the Condé Canal on a thirty mile front towards Maubeuge-Mons
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Passage of the Grande Honnelle, November 5 to 7
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Day 91
- Canadian Corps controls both Petite and Grande Honnelle rivers
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Day 92
- Canadian Corps occupy La Croix and Hensies
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Day 94
- Kaiser Wilhelm II, Emperor and Commander-in-chief of the German armed forces, abdicated
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Day 96
- 6:30 am a message reaches Canadian Corps Headquarters armistice will be declared at 11:00 am
- Death of Private George Lawrence Price (last Canadian man killed during the war)
- Armistice to end the First World War takes effect at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 -the guns finally fell silent and four years of warfare on the Western Front came to an end.
