List of Canadian battles during the First World War

This is a list of battles during the First World War in which the Canadian Expeditionary Force participated.

France and Flanders

Battle list Canadian Troops on the Western Front plaque in Currie Hall, Royal Military College of Canada
Campaign Battle Date
Battle of Neuve Chapelle 10 March 1915
St. Eloi 14–15 March 1915
Second Battle of Ypres Battle of Gravenstafel 22–23 April 1915
Battle of St. Julien 24 April 4 May 1915
Battle of Frezenberg 8–13 May 1915
Battle of Bellewaerde Ridge 24–25 May 1915
Second Battle of Artois Battle of Aubers Ridge 9 May 1915
Battle of Festubert 15–27 May 1915
Second Action at Givenchy 15–16 May 1915
Third Battle of Artois Battle of Loos 25 September–19 October 1915
Actions of St Eloi Craters 27 March–16 April 1916
Battle of Mont Sorrel 2–13 June 1916
Battle of the Somme Battle of Albert 1–13 July 1916
Battle of Bazentin Ridge 14–25 July 1916
Battle of Pozières 1–3 September 1916
Battle of Guillemont 3–6 September 1916
Battle of Ginchy 9 September 1916
Battle of Flers–Courcelette 15–22 September 1916
Battle of Thiepval Ridge 26–29 September 1916
Battle of Le Transloy 1–18 October 1916
Battle of the Ancre Heights 1 October–11 November 1916
Battle of the Ancre 13–18 November 1916
Battle of Arras Battle of Vimy Ridge 9–12 April 1917
First Scarpe, 1917 9–14 April 1917
Second Scarpe, 1917
  • Attack on La Coulotte
 23–24 April 1917
Battle of Arleux 28–29 April 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 15–25 August 1917
Battle of Messines 7–14 June 1917
Third Battle of Ypres Battle of Pilckem Ridge 31 July–3 August 1917
Battle of Langemarck 16–18 August 1917
Battle of the Menin Road Ridge 20–25 September 1917
Battle of Polygon Wood 26 September–3 October 1917
Battle of Broodseinde 4 October 1917
Battle of Poelcappelle 9 October 1917
First Battle of Passchendaele 12–22 October 1917
Second Battle of Passchendaele 26 October–10 November 1917
Battle of Cambrai 20 November–8 December 1917
German spring offensive Operation Michael 21 March–4 April 1918
Battle of Hamel 4 July 1918
Battles of the Lys
  • Estaires (First Defence of Givenchy, 1918)
  • Hazebrouck
  • Messines (Loss of Hill 63)
  • First Kemmel Ridge
 9–17 April 1918
Action of La Becque 28 June 1918
Hundred Days Offensive Battle of Amiens
  • Actions Around Damery
  • Battle of the Scarpe
 8–30 August 1918
Second Battles of the Somme, 1918 21 August–3 September 1918
Battle of the Scarpe 26–30 August 1918
Drocourt-Queant Canal 2–3 September 1918
Battle of Havrincourt 12 September 1918
Battle of Épehy 18 September 1918
Battle of the Canal du Nord 27 September – 1 October 1918
Fifth Battle of Ypres 28 September – 2 October 1918
Battle of St Quentin Canal
  • Beaurevoir Line
 29 September – 5 October 1918
Battle of Cambrai 8–9 October 1918
Battle of Courtrai 14–19 October 1918
Battle of the Selle 17–25 October 1918
Battle of the Lys and the Escaut 1–11 November 1918
Battle of the Sambre 4 November 1918
Passage of the Grande Honnelle 5–7 November 1918

Other theatres of war

References

  • Nicholson, G. W. L. (1962). Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914–1919 (PDF). Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War. Ottawa: Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery. OCLC 557523890. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 August 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2012.