April 1918

Operation Michael – The Spring Offensive

4^th -5^th April               Battle of Avre

24^th to 27^th April           Second battle Villers-Bretonneux

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Operation Georgette – The Spring Offensive

7^th to 29^th April            Second phase of the Spring Offensive

7^th to 10^th April           Battle of Estaires

10^th to 11^th April          Third Battle of Messines

11^th to 27^th April           Retirement from Passchendaele Ridge

12^th to 13^th April          Battle of Hazebrouck

13^th to 15^th April          Battle of Bailleul

17^th to 19^th April          First Battle of Kemmel

18^th April                      Battle of Bethune

25^th to 26^th April          Second Battle of Kemmel

29^th April                     Battle of Scherpenburg

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The Western Front

21^st April                      Manfred von Richthofen, Germany’s “Red Baron” was shot down by the Allies

27^th April                      Rev. Theodore Hardy awarded the Victoria Cross

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Other Theatres

1^st April                      Royal Air Force founded

23^rd April                     British raid on Zeebrugge

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Mesopotamia and the Middle East

30^th April/4^th May       Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt

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