THE GREAT WAR – JUNE 1916

The Western Front

1st June                Battle of Jutland ends

2^nd June                Battle of Mount Sorrel begins

5^th June                 Lord Kitchener drowns at sea

9^th June                 Allied artillery attack on Mount Sorrel

14^th June               Battle of Mount Sorrel ends

27^th June              The last victory of Boehlke finally ended the “Fokker Scourge”

June                       German submarine Deutschland reached America

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Verdun

1^st June                  Bombardment of Fort Vaux began

4^th/8^th June           Germans attack Fort Vaux

10^th June               Trench of Bayonets

22^nd June               German attack on Fort Souville with phosgene gas

23^rd June              French counter-attack halted German advance

30^th June               French reclaim Fort Thiaumont

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The Somme

24^th June               Allies began week long artillery bombardment

29^th June              Battle of Somme postponed

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The Eastern Front

4^th June                 Brusilov Offensive commeces

6^th June                 Russians capture Lutsk

8^th June                 Germany sends reinforcements against the Brusilov Offensive

16^th/18^th June      Czernowitz falls to the Russians

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The Caucasus and Middle East Campaign

5^th June                Start of Arab revolt

7^th June              Hussein proclaim independence from Turkey

10^th June              Turks surrender at Mecca

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