French Armenian Legion - independent detachment (Mixed infantry and cavalry brigade) XX Corps (Lieutenant General Philip Chetwode) - subsidiary attack 10th Division 53rd Division Chaytor's Force (Major General Edward Chaytor) - eastern flank Anzac Mounted Division (Indian) Imperial Service Infantry brig...
where he joined the 1st Battalion King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), which was at that time on the Aisne. A few weeks later the battalion entrained for Hazebrouck, which it reached on 12 October – part of the move by the BEF to support the French and try and outflank the ...
Picture - British infantry attack plan for 1 July. The only success came in the south at Mametz and Montauban and on the French sector. Before the infantry moved, the artillery had been called into action. Barrages in the past had depended on surprise and poor German bunkers for success;...
Austro-Hungarian Empire (1905-1907) Armored Car – 1 Built The Austro-Daimler Panzerautomobil, along with the French Charron, can be considered to be the first ‘modern’ armored cars. With first development already starting in 1904 by graduate engineer Paul Daimler, the vehicle was built in ...
In one case the Germans dropped an informational leaflet to apprise the French of the fate of some of their captured officers: Proclamation. To the commander of Paris. From Lt. Hans Steffen, 35 Infantry Regiment. I am happy to give you information about the following French officers. ...
Infantry: soldiers who fought on foot 369th regiment: in world war 1 an african american regiment of the US army Combatants: a person who physically fights a war Trench warfare: a form of warfare in which armies conduct attacks each other from opposition position in fortified trenches Chemical...
Near the French villages of Vimy and Petit-Vimy, a high chalk ridge dominated the flat Douai Plain. When the war had bogged down in 1914, the Germans had driven the French from the ridge, and had strongly fortified it. Offensives by both the French and British had failed to dislodge the...