Below is a list of all major battles and actions involving the British army in the world war one. It also includes the regiments involved in WWI with some suggested websites that may be of interest in researching your ancestors or genealogy in general.

Theatres of War, Army Regiments, Naval Detachments, RAF

Description: The first world war (the Great War) was fought between the alliance of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the German Empire, the Ottoman Empire and Kingdom of Bulgaria against an alliance primarily of the British Empire, the Russian Empire and the French Third Republic, Italy, the Japanese Empire and the USA, although many other nations fought or declared war. The war was the result of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (heir to the throne on Austro-Hungaria) by a Bosnian-Serb nationalist, which in turn triggered a series of alliances, igniting the whole of Europe in war.

Major battles and actions from WW1 that your ancestors may have fought in.

• Mons (1914)
• Le Cateau (1914)
• 1st battle of Marne (1914)
• 1st battle of Aisne (1914)
• Arras (1914)
• 1st battle of Ypres (1914)
• 2nd battle of Ypres (1915)
• Festubert (1915)
• Neuve Chapelle (1915)
• Loos (1915)
• Aubers Bridge (1915)
• Gallipoli (1915-1916)
• Mount Sorrel (1916)
• Jutland (1916)
• Hindenburg Line (1916)
• Somme (1916)
• Messines (1917)
• 3rd battle of Gaza (1917)
• Cambrai (1917)
• 3rd battle of Ypres and Passchendaele (1917)
• Rafa (1917)
• 3rd battle of Aisne (1918)
• 1st battle of the Somme (1918)
• Lys (1918)
• 2nd battle of the Somme (1918)
• 2nd battle of Arras (1918)
• Advance in Flanders (1918)
• Selle (1918)
• Salonika (1918)
• Vittoria Veneto (1918)
• Doiran (1918)

Websites:

BBC History: World War One.

Wikipedia: Word War I.

First World War.com.

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