List of Canadian battle

Battle

Generally, a battle is a conceptual component in the hierarchy of combat in warfare between two or more armed forces, or combatants. In a battle, each combatant will seek to defeat the others, with defeat determined by the conditions of a military campaign...

s during the First World War in which the Canadian Expeditionary Force

Canadian Expeditionary Force

The Canadian Expeditionary Force was the designation of the field force created by Canada for service overseas in the First World War. Units of the C.E.F. were divided into field formation in France, where they were organized first into separate divisions and later joined together into a single...

 participated:

France and Flanders

Campaign	Battle	Date
Trench Warfare 1915	Battle of Neuve Chapel	10 March 1915
	Action of St. Eloi	14-15 March 1915
	Battle of Ypres, 1915 Second Battle of Ypres The Second Battle of Ypres was the first time Germany used poison gas on a large scale on the Western Front in the First World War and the first time a former colonial force pushed back a major European power on European soil, which occurred in the battle of St...
	Gravenstafel Ridge (the Gas Attack)	22–23 April 1915
	St. Julien	24 April - 4 May 1915
	Frezenberg Ridge	8 -13 May 1915
	Bellewaarde Ridge	24–25 May 1915
	Battle of Aubers Ridge	9 May 1915
	Battle of Festubert Battle of Festubert The Battle of Festubert was an attack by the British army in the Artois region of France on the western front during World War I. It began on May 15, 1915 and continued until May 25.-Context:...	15-27 May 1915
	Second Action at Givenchy	15-16 May 1915
	Battle of Loos Battle of Loos The Battle of Loos was one of the major British offensives mounted on the Western Front in 1915 during World War I. It marked the first time the British used poison gas during the war, and is also famous for the fact that it witnessed the first large-scale use of 'new' or Kitchener's Army...	25 September - 8 October 1915
	Action of Bois Grenier	25 September 1915
	Actions of the Hohenzollern Redoubt	13-19 October 1915
Trench Warfare 1916	Actions of St. Eloi Craters	27 March – 16 April 1916
	Battle of Mount Sorrel Battle of Mont Sorrel The Battle of Mont Sorrel was a localized conflict of World War I between three divisions of the British Second Army and three divisions of the German Fourth Army in the Ypres Salient, near Ypres, Belgium, from 2 June 1916 to 14 June 1916.In an effort to pull British resources from the observed...	2 - 13 June 1916
The Allied Offensive, 1916	Battles of the Somme
	Albert, 1916	1 -13 July 1916
	Bazentin Ridge	14 - 17 July 1916
	Attack at Fromelles	19 July 1916
	Attacks on High Wood	20 - 25 July 1916
	Pozieres Ridge	1 - 3 September 1916
	Guillemont	3 - 6 September 1916
	Ginchy	9 September 1916
	Flers-Courcelette Battle of Flers-Courcelette The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, was a battle within the Franco-British Somme Offensive which took place in the summer and autumn of 1916. Launched on the 15th of September 1916 the battle went on for one week. Flers-Courcelette began with the overall objective of cutting a hole in the German...	15–22 September 1916
	Thiepval Ridge Battle of Thiepval Ridge The Battle of Thiepval Ridge was the first large offensive mounted by the British Reserve Army of Lieutenant General Hubert Gough during the Battle of the Somme and was designed to benefit from British Fourth Army's Battle of Morval by starting 24 hours afterwards...	26–29 September 1916
	Le Transloy Ridges Battle of Le Transloy The Battle of Le Transloy was the final offensive mounted by the British Fourth Army during the 1916 Battle of the Somme.-Prelude:With the successful conclusion of the preceding Battle of Morval at the end of September, the Fourth Army of Lieutenant General Henry Rawlinson had finally captured the...  (Capture of Eaucourt l'Abbaye)	1 – 18 October 1916
	Ancre Heights Battle of the Ancre Heights The Battle of the Ancre Heights was a prolonged battle of attrition in October 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. Lieutenant General Hubert Gough's Reserve Army had finally managed to break out of the positions it had occupied since the start of the Somme fighting and Gough intended to maintain...  (Capture of Regina Trench)	1 October - 11 November 1916
	The Ancre, 1916 (Capture of Beaumont Hamel)	13 - 18 November 1916
The Advance to the Hindenburg Line 1917	The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line	24 - 29 March 1917
The Allied Offensive 1917	Battle of Arras 1917 Battle of Arras (1917) The Battle of Arras was a British offensive during the First World War. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British, Canadian, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and Australian troops attacked German trenches near the French city of Arras on the Western Front....
	Vimy Ridge Battle of Vimy Ridge The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a military engagement fought primarily as part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were the Canadian Corps, of four divisions, against three divisions of the German Sixth Army...	9 – 14 April 1917
	First Scarpe, 1917	9 – 14 April 1917
	Second Scarpe, 1917	23 – 24 April 1917
	Attack on La Coulotte	23 April 1917
	Arleux	28–29 April 1917
	Third Scarpe, 1917 (Capture of Fresnoy)	3 - 4 May 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 Battle of Hill 70 The Battle of Hill 70 was a localized battle of World War I between the Canadian Corps and five divisions of the German Sixth Army. The battle took place along the Western Front on the outskirts of Lens in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France between 15 August 1917 and 25 August 1917.The primary...	15–25 August 1917
	Battle of Messines, 1917 (Capture of Wytschaete) Battle of Messines The Battle of Messines was a battle of the Western front of the First World War. It began on 7 June 1917 when the British Second Army under the command of General Herbert Plumer launched an offensive near the village of Mesen in West Flanders, Belgium...	7 – 14 June 1917
	Battles of Ypres, 1917
	Pilckem Ridge	31 July - 3 August 1917
	Langemarck, 1917	16 - 18 August 1917
	Menin Road Ridge	20 - 25 September 1917
	Polygon Wood	26 September - 3 October 1917
	Broodseinde	4 October 1917
	Poelcappelle	9 October 1917
	First Passchendaele	12 October 1917
	Second Passchendaele	26 October - 10 November 1917
	Battle of Cambrai, 1917
	The Tank Attack	20-21 November 1917
	Capture of Bourlon Wood	23-28 November 1917
	The German Counter-Attacks	30 November - 3 December 1917
The German Offensives 1918	First Battles of the Somme, 1918 Second Battle of the Somme (1918) During the First World War, the Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought on the Western Front from the end of the summer, in the basin of the Somme River...
	St. Quentin	21 - 23 March 1918
	Actions at the Somme Crossings	24 - 25 March 1918
	First Bapaume	24 - 25 March 1918
	Rosieres	26 - 27 March 1918
	First Arras, 1918 Arras 1918 (Battle honour) 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 the Great War:*First Battle of Arras, 28 Mar 1918*Second Battle of Arras, 26 Aug–3 Sep 1918...	28 March 1918
	Avre	4 April 1918
	Capture of Hamel	4 July 1918
	Battles of the Lys
	Estaires (First Defence of Givenchy, 1918)	9 - 11 April 1918
	Hazebrouck	12 - 15 April 1918
	Messines, 1918 (Loss of Hill 63)	13 - 15 April 1918
	First Kemmel Ridge	17 - 19 April 1918
	Action of La Becque	28 June 1918
The Advance To Victory 1918 Hundred Days Offensive The Hundred Days Offensive was the final period of the First World War, during which the Allies launched a series of offensives against the Central Powers on the Western Front from 8 August to 11 November 1918, beginning with the Battle of Amiens. The offensive forced the German armies to retreat...	Battle of Amiens	8 – 11 August 1918
	Actions Around Damery	15 – 17 August 1918
	Battle of the Scarpe	26–30 August 1918
	Second Battles of the Somme, 1918 Second Battle of the Somme (1918) During the First World War, the Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought on the Western Front from the end of the summer, in the basin of the Somme River...
	Albert, 1918	21 – 23 August 1918
	Second Bapaume	31 August - 3 September 1918
	Second Battles of Arras, 1918
	Scarpe, 1918 (Capture of Monchy-le-Preux)	26 - 30 August 1918
	Drocourt-Queant Canal	2 - 3 September 1918
	Battles of the Hindenburg Line
	Havrincourt	12 September 1918
	Epehy	18 September 1918
	Canal du Nord (Capture of Bourlon Wood) Battle of the Canal du Nord The Battle of Canal du Nord was part of a general Allied offensive against German positions on the Western Front during the Hundred Days Offensive of World War I. The battle took place in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, along an incomplete portion of the Canal du Nord and on the outskirts...	27 September - 1 October 1918
	St. Quentin Canal	29 September - 2 October 1918
	Beaurevoir Line	3 - 5 October 1918
	Cambrai, 1918 (Capture of Cambrai) Battle of Cambrai (1918) The Battle of Cambrai was a battle between troops of the British First, Third and Fourth Armies and German Empire forces during the Hundred Days Offensive of the First World War. The battle took place in and around the French city of Cambrai, between 8 and 10 October 1918...	8–9 October 1918
	Battle of Ypres, 1918	28 September – 2 October 1918
	Pursuit to the Selle	9 - 12 October 1918
	Battle of Courtrai	14 - 19 October 1918
	Battle of the Selle	17 - 25 October 1918
	Battle of Valenciennes (Capture of Moot Houy)	1 – 2 November 1918
	Battle of the Sambre	4 November 1918
	Passage of the Grande Honnelle	5 - 7 November 1918
	Capture of Mons	11 November 1918

Other Theatres of War

• Macedonia 1915-17
• Dardanelles 1915-16
• Egypt and Palestine 1915-16, 1918
• North-West Persia and Caspian 1918-19
• Murman 1918-19
• Archangel 1918-19
• Siberia 1918-19

Anomalies

In the process of designating and awarding battle honours, some significant actions have "slipped between the cracks." As an example, the actions of the Canadian Cavalry Brigade at Moreuil Wood

Battle of Moreuil Wood

The Battle of Moreuil Wood was an engagement of World War I that took place on the banks of the Arve River in France, where the Canadian Cavalry Brigade attacked and forced the German 23rd Saxon Division to withdraw from Moreuil Wood, a commanding position on the river bank...

and Rifle Wood from 30 March to 1 April during the German Offensive of 1918, while significant and resulting in the award of a Victoria Cross to Lt. Gordon Flowerdew of the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), it did not result in the awarding of a battle honour.

External links

• The Great War - List of Battles and Engagements