THE GREAT WAR – SEPTEMBER 1916

 

Verdun

3^rd Sept                              German offensive ended and the defensive campaign began

 

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The Somme

 

3^rd Sept                             Battle of Guilemont

9^th Sept                            Allies captured Ginchy

15^th to 22^nd Sept           Debut of the tank at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette

15^th Sept                            Raymond Asquith, the Prime Minister’s son, killed in action

17^th Sept                            German “Red Baron” registers first air combat victory

25^th Sept                            British and French troops capture Thiepval

 

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The Balkans

 

1^st Sept                               Bulgaria declared war on Romania

1^st Sept                               Danube army invaded Romania

6^th Sept                               Battle of Turtucaia

12^th Sept                             Allies counter-attack from Salonika

15^th Sept                             Romanian offensive against Austro-Hungary halted

18^th Sept                             Falkenhayn assumes command in Romanian campaign

20^th Sept                             Romanians halted the advancing Austrian Danube army

 

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Other Fronts

2^nd/3rd Sept                         Leefe Robinson awarded VC for shooting down an attacking airship

4^th Sept                               Dar es Salaam, in German East Africa is captured

14^th to 18^th Sept               The Seventh Battle of Isonzo

19^th Sept                             Belgian forces launched an attack into Flanders

20^th Sept                            Brusilov Offensive ends

23^rd Sept                            Two German airships destroyed on air raid over Britain

24^th Sept                           Allies attacked Krupp’s steelworks

September                       The bombing campaign of London and East coast continued by the Germans

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