April 1918
Operation Michael – The Spring Offensive
4th -5th April Battle of Avre
24th to 27th April Second battle Villers-Bretonneux
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Operation Georgette – The Spring Offensive
7th to 29th April Second phase of the Spring Offensive
7th to 10th April Battle of Estaires
10th to 11th April Third Battle of Messines
11th to 27th April Retirement from Passchendaele Ridge
12th to 13th April Battle of Hazebrouck
13th to 15th April Battle of Bailleul
17th to 19th April First Battle of Kemmel
18th April Battle of Bethune
25th to 26th April Second Battle of Kemmel
29th April Battle of Scherpenburg
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The Western Front
21st April Manfred von Richthofen, Germany’s “Red Baron” was shot down by the Allies
27th April Rev. Theodore Hardy awarded the Victoria Cross
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Other Theatres
1st April Royal Air Force founded
23rd April British raid on Zeebrugge
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Mesopotamia and the Middle East
30th April/4th May Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt
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