Britse nomenclatuur

PHASE (I) THE GERMAN INVASION, 1914

Operations in Flanders, 1914 (10 oktober - 22 november)
  • Battle of La Bassée (10 oktober - 2 november)
  • Battle of Messines (12 oktober - 2 november)
  • Battle of Armentières (13 oktober - 2 november)
  • The battles of Ypres (19 oktober - 22 november 1914)
    • Battle of Langemarck (21 - 24 oktober)
    • Battle of Gheluvelt (29 - 31 oktober)
    • Battle of Nonne Bosschen (11 november)


PHASE (II) TRENCH WARFARE, 1914 -16

Winter Operations, 1914 - 15 (november - februari)
Attack on Wytschaete (14 december 1914)

Summer Operations, 1915 (maart - november)
  • Action of St. Eloi (14 - 15 maart 1915)
  • Capture of Hilll 60 (17 - 22 april 1915)
  • The battles of Ypres 1915 (22 april - 25 mei)
    • Battle of Gravenstafel (22 - 23 april)
    • Battle of St. Julien (24 april - 4 mei)
    • Battle of Frezenberg (8 - 13 mei)
    • Battle of Bellewaarde (24 - 25 mei)
  • First attack on Bellewaarde (16 juni 1915)
  • Actions of Hooge (19 en 30 juli, 9 augustus 1915)
  • Second attack on Bellewaarde (25 - 26 september 1915)
Local Operations, 1916
  • Actions of the Bluff (14 - 15 februari, 2 maart 1916)
  • Actions of St. Eloi Craters 27 maart - 16 april 1916)
  • Battle of Mount Sorrel (2 - 13 juni)
 

PHASE (V) THE ALLIED OFFENSIVES, 1917

Operations. The Flanders Offensive (7 juni - 10 november 1917)
  • The battle of Messines (7 - 14 juni)
  • German attack on Nieuport (10 - 11 juli)
  • The battles of Ypres 1917 (31 juli - 10 november)
    • ​Battle of Pilckem (31 juli - 2 augustus)
    • Capture of Westhoek (10 augustus)
    • Battle of Langemarck (16 - 18 augustus)
    • Battle of the Menin Road (20 - 25 september)
    • Battle of Polygon Wood (26 september - 3 oktober)
    • Battle of Broodseinde (4 oktober)
    • Battle of Poelcapelle (9 oktober)
    • First Battle of Passchendaele (12 oktober)
    • Second Battle of Passchendaele (26 oktober - 10 november)


PHASE (VI) THE GERMAN OFFENSIVES, 1918

Operations. The Offensive in Flanders (9 - 29 april)
  • The Battles of the Lys (9 - 29 april 1918)
  • Battle of Messines (10 - 11 april)
  • Battle of Hazebrouck (12 - 15 april)
  • Battle of Bailleul (13 - 15 april)
  • First battle of Kemmel (17 - 19 april)
  • Second battle of Kemmel (25 - 26 april)
  • Battle of the Scherpenberg (29 april)


PHASE (VII) THE ADVANCE TO VICTORY, 1918

Operations. The advance in Flanders (18 augustus - 6 september 1918)
Operations. The Final Advance - Flanders (28 september - 11 november)
  • Battle of Ypres (28 september - 2 oktober)
  • Battle of Courtrai (14 - 19 oktober)

Bron: © Robert Missinne, Interreg 1995, Lessenreeks 1914-18