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The Battle of Havrincourt was a World War I battle fought on 12 September 1918, involving the British Third Army (under the command of General Sir Julian Byng) against German troops, including those of the 3rd and 10th Corps, in the town of Havrincourt, France.
During Operation Michael, in 1918, they were in the line near Arras and in the Second Battle of the Marne, in the Ardre Valley. At the opening of Second Battle of the Somme (1918), they fought the Battle of Havrincourt and continued across the Saint Quentin Canal at Marcoing, before beginning the fighting advance to Maubeuge on the Sambre. [2]
British pilot Frank Broome of the No. 151 Squadron shot down a giant German Zeppelin-Staaken bomber over Beugny, France, the second of only two such bombers lost to enemy action in World War I and the only one shot down by an Allied aircraft. Broome was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for the achievement. [72]
18 July-22 July – The Battle of Soissons is fought between the French (with American assistance) and German armies. [3] 5 August – Second Battle of the Marne ends with Allied victory. 8 August – Battle of Amiens begins. 12 September – British victory in Battle of Havrincourt. [4] 12 September-15 September – Battle of Saint-Mihiel ...
62 Division took part in the Hundred Days Offensive beginning in the summer of 1918, at the Battle of the Scarpe (26–30 August) [35] [50] and the Battle of the Drocourt-Quéant Line (2 September). [ 35 ] [ 50 ] 62 Division was back at Havrincourt on 12 September 1918 for the Battle of Havrincourt – the division was specially chosen because ...
Battle of Abu Tellul; Action of 22 August 1917; Capture of Afulah and Beisan; Action of Agagia; Affair of Agbeluvoe; Air Battle on Istrana; First Battle of the Aisne; Third Battle of the Aisne; Battle of Albert (1916) Battle of Aleppo (1918) Allied Troop Movements During Operation Michael; Battle of Amara; Battle of Amiens (1918) First Battle ...
The action for which Second Lieutenant Young was to be awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross occurred in the aftermath of Allied success at the Battle of Havrincourt. Soon after he rejoined 1/1st battalion, it was moved into the front-lines south east of Havrincourt, near a copse named Triangle Wood. In the late afternoon of 18 September 1918 ...
The division took little part in the fighting begun by the German Spring Offensive in March 1918, but did take part in the first counter-offensive, the April 1918 Battle of the Ancre, which included the world's first tank versus tank combat at Villers-Bretonneux.