First World War Project
Home News and Themes
These pages capture a sense of how the War was being experienced at Home. Primarily, material was drawn from newspapers, official records and published sources. We have added pages for emerging themes picked up as the Project evolved. THEMESAir Raids - Children at War - Women at War (including Eviction Threats for Rural Wives - Statistics on Women |
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| Additions: July 1919 - Peace Days | ||||
* August 1914 includes background to the Conyer Teynham Rifle Range (1912).
| Approximate Dates of the Principal British Battles on the Western Front. | |
| Mons | 23rd August, 1914. |
| Le Cateau I | 26th August, 1914. |
| Marne I | 6th September—10th September, 1914. |
| Aisne I | 13th September—28th September, 1914. |
| La Bassee | 10th October—31st October, 1914. |
| Ypres I | 19th October—21st November, 1914. |
| Neuve Chapelle | 10th March—13th March, 1915. |
| Ypres II | 22nd April—24th May, 1915. |
| Fromelles | 9th May, 1915. |
| Festubert | 15th May—25th May, 1915. |
| Loos | 25th September—15th October, 1915. |
| Somme I | 1st July—17th November, 1916. |
| Arras | 9th April—16th May, 1917. |
| Messines | 7th June—14th June, 1917. |
| Ypres III | 31st July—6th November, 1917. |
| Cambrai I | 20th November—7th December, 1917. |
| Somme II | 21st March—5th April, 1918. |
| Lys | 9th April—29th April, 1918. |
| Aisne III | 27th May—2nd June, 1918. |
| Marne II | 15th July—4th August, 1918. |
| Amiens | 8th August—12th August, 1918. |
| Bapaume | 21st August—31st August, 1918. |
| Scarpe | 26th August—3rd September, 1918. |
| Épehy | 12th September—18th September, 1918. |
| Cambrai II | 27th September—5th October, 1918. |
| Flanders | 28th September, 1918. |
| Le Cateau II | 6th October—12th October, 1918. |
| Selle | 17th October—25th October, 1918. |
| Sambre | 1st November—11th November, 1918. |
| (Mons retaken | 11th November, 1918.) |
Placing the 'Headline' Battlefields of the Western Front
- The Battlefield of Flanders: The Wet Clay Plain Battlefield
- The Battlefield of the Somme: The Dry Chalk Plain Battlefield
- The Battlefield of the Marne: The Plateau-and-Lowland Battlefield
- The Battlefield of Verdun: The Cuesta-and-Lowland Battlefield
- The Battle of Lorraine: The Cuesta-and-Mountain Battlefield
Distribution of Empires - 1914
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