General Order 7 of 1928

General Order 7 of 1 February 1928, as amended by General Order 162 of 10 September 1928, details the chronological and geographical limits of each battle of World War I for which battle honours are awarded to Canadian units.

General Order 7 is reproduced here in its entirety and, to the extent possible within the limits of HTML, is formatted as originally published. Note that as originally printed, the chart of battles was oriented sideways on the pages (i.e. in landscape mode).

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THE GREAT WAR--LIST OF BATTLES
AND OTHER ENGAGEMENTS

  G.O.7 
1928

  (1) A tabulated list of the engagements of the Great War in which troops of the Canadian Expeditionary Force took part is published herewith. This list is based, with certain amendments as to boundaries, on the report of the Battles Nomenclature Committee appointed by the Army Council, whose terms of reference were:--

(a)To tabulate the actions fought in the Great War;
(b)To classify the actions with a definite system of nomenclature which would denote their relative importance;
(c)To define the geographical and chronological limits of each action.

  (2) The "Operations" column is intended to give a general outline of the course of events and thus form a guide to the list of engagements given in the columns following.

  (3) In the "Geographical Limits" column, when no road, river or other geographical feature is mentioned the limit must be understood to be a straight line between the localities named. These latter are always "inclusive" unless the contrary is stated. A * indicates that no more exact definition of the battle area can be given than that the engagement took place "in the neighbourhood of" the place named.

  (4) Battles, Actions, etc., are only recorded when regularly organized Canadian units took part. In the campaigns "North West Persia and the Caspian, 1918-1919" and "Murman, 1918-1919", in which the Canadian Expeditionary Force was represented by small parties only (not units) which again were split up at different places into smaller detachments, no details of engagements are given. In Macedonia, the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, and Siberia, although organized units were present they did not take part in any of the engagements.






CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES AND OTHER ENGAGEMENTS IN WHICH CANADIAN TROOPS
PARTICIPATED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919

FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1914-1918
Operations Battles Actions, etc. Limits
Name Tactical
incidents
included		 Chronological Geographical

I. TRENCH WARFARE, 1914-1916

Summer Operations,
  1915.
  (March-October)		     Action of St. Eloi 14-15 March. *
THE BATTLES OF YPRES,
  1915		     22 April-25 May  
  (i) Battle of Graven-
      stafel Ridge. 		The Gas Attack   22-23 April The Comines-Ypres Canal as far as Voormezeele; thence road to Vlamertinghe Château--Elverdinghe Château--Boessinghe--Langemarck.
 (ii) Battle of St. Julien     24 April-4 May
(iii) Battle of Frezenberg
      Ridge.		     8-13 May
(iv) Battle of Belle-
      warde Ridge.		     24-25 May
BATTLE OF FESTUBERT     15-25 May The la Bassée Canal to Gorre; thence road to le Touret--Lacouture--Croix Barbé--thence a line to the Bois du Biez (Southwest corner)
    Second Action of
  Givenchy, 1915		 15-16 June Givenchy--Gorre; thence road to le Touret--Rue de l'Epinette--la Qunque Rue (exclusive).
THE BATTLE OF LOOS     25 September-
 8 October		 Road Aix-Noulette--Noeux-les-Mines--Béthune (exclusive)--Gorre--Festubert (exclusive).
    --with subsidiary
Action of Bois Gren-
  ier.		 25 September Bas Maisnil--Croix-Maréchal--Bac-St-Maur--Erquingham--Bois Grenier--Bois Blancs.
    --and subsequent
Actions of the Hoh-
  enzollern Redoubt		 13-19 October Road Hullueh--Loos--Fosse No. 7--Noyelles-lez-Vermelles--Cambrin.
Local Operations,
  1916.+		     Actions of St. Eloi
  Craters 		27 March-16 April Road Wytschaete--Vierstraat--Diekebusch--Kruisstraat--Ypres (exclusive); thence the Ypres--Comines Canal.
  BATTLE OF MOUNT SORREL     2-13 June Hill 60--Kruistraathoek--Kruisstraat--Cloth Hall--Menin Road--the Ypres-Roulers Railway.

      + Previous to the Allied Offensive.
 

CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES AND OTHER ENGAGEMENTS IN WHICH CANADIAN TROOPS
PARTICIPATED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919--Continued

FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1914-1918--Continued
Operations Battles Actions, etc. Limits
Name Tactical
incidents
included		 Chronological Geographical

II. THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE, 1916
Operations on the
  Somme. (1 July-
  18 November, 1916)		 THE BATTLES OF THE
  SOMME, 1916.		     1 July-18
November		  
  (i) Battle of Albert,
           1916.		 Capture of Montau-
   ban.
Capture of Mametz.
Capture of Fricourt.
Capture of Contal-
   maison
Capture of la Boiss-
   elle.		   1-13 July The Combles valley to Hardecourt; thence the road to Maricourt--Suzanne--Bray--Albert--Bouzincourt--Hédauville--Forceville--Bertrancourt--Sailly-au-Bois (exclusive)--Hébuterne--Puisieux-au-Mont.
 (ii) Battle of Bazentin
           Ridge.		 Capture of Longue-
   val.
Capture of Trônes
   Wood.
Capture of Ovillers.		   14-17 July Road Hardecourt--Maricourt--Fricourt--Bécourt--Albert (exclusive); thence the river Ancre.
    --with subsidiary
Attack at Fromelles
    +
19 July
Road Aubers--Fauquissart--Laventie--Rouge-de-Bout--Fleurbaix (exclusive -- la Boutillerie--Bas Maisnil.
    --and subsequent
Attacks on High
  Wood.
20-25 July
Road Flers--Longueval--Bazentin-le-Grand--Bazentin-le-Petit--Martinpuich.
(iii) Battle of Pozières
           Ridge.		 Fighting for Mou-
   quet Farm.		   23 July-3 September Road Bazentin-le-Petit--Contalmaison--Fricourt--Bécourt--Albert (exclusive); thence the river Ancre.
 (iv) Battle of Guille
           mont.		     3-6 September The Combles valley to Hardecourt; thence road to Maricourt--Montauban--Longueval.
  (v) Battle of Ginchy.     9 September
 (vi) Battle of Flers-
           Courcelette.		     15-22 September The Combles valley to Hardecourt; thence road to Maricourt--Fricourt--Bécourt--Albert (exclusive); thence the river Ancre.
(vii) Battle of Thiepval
           Ridge.		     26-29 September The Baupame road to Martinpuich (exclusive)--Contamaison--Becourt--Albert (exclusive); thence road to Martinsart--Englebelmer--Auchenvillers--Serre.
(viii) Battle of le Trans-
           loy Ridges.		 Capture of Eaucourt
   l'Abbaye.		   1-18 October The valley from Sailly-Saillisel to Combles; thence road to Ginchy--Longueval--Martinpuich--Le Sars.
 (ix) Battle of The Ancre
           Heights.		 Capture of Regina
   Trench.		   1 October-
11 November		 Road Pys--le Sars--Martinpuich--Contalmaison--la Boiselle--Aveluy--Martinsart--Mesnil--Hamel.
  (x) Battle of the
           Ancre, 1918.		 Capture of Beaumont
   Hamel.		   13-18 November The Baupaume road to la Boisselle; thence road to Aveluy--Martinsart--Englebelmer--Mailly-Maillet--Colincamps--Hébuterne--Puisieux-au-Mont.
    + On the Aubers Ridge

III. THE ADVANCE TO THE HINDENBURG LINE, 1917
German Retreat to
  Hindenburg Line
  14 March-5 April
  1917).		       14 March-5 April  
 

CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES AND OTHER ENGAGEMENTS IN WHICH CANADIAN TROOPS
PARTICIPATED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919--Continued

FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1914-1918--Continued
Operations Battles Actions, etc. Limits
Name Tactical
incidents
included		 Chronological Geographical

IV. THE ALLIED OFFENSIVES, 1917
The Arras Offensive
  (9 April-15 May
  1917)		 THE BATTLES OF ARRAS,
  1917.		     9 April-4 May.  
   (i) Battle of Vimy
           Ridge.		     9-14 April Willerval--Maroeuil--Mont St.Eloy--Ablain-St.Nazaire--Liévin--Lens.
 [(ii) Second Battle of the
           Scarpe, 1917.]		       (Canadian troops not engaged in main battle; only in subsidiary attack.)
    --with subsidiary
Attack on la Cou-
  lotte.
23 April
Road Avion--Vimy (exclusive)--Souchez; thence the river Souchez.
 (iii) Battle of Arleux.     28-29 April Boiry-Notre-Dame--Monchy le-Preux--Beaurains--Roelincourt--Vimy (exclusive) (inclusive)--Acheville.
 (iv) Third Battle of
         the Scarpe, 1917.		 Capture of Fresnoy   3-4 May The river Sensée from Vis-en-Artois to St. Léger; thence a line to Boyelles--Beaurains--Roelincourt--Vimy (exclusive)--Acheville.
--with flanking oper-
   ations towards Lens.
   (3 June-26 Aug.)		     Affairs south of the
  Souchez River.		 3-25 June Road Avion--Vimy (exclusive)--Souchez; thence the river Souchez.
    Capture of Avion. 26-29 June Road Méricourt--Vimy--Souchez; thence the river Souchez.
BATTLE OF HILL 70     15-25 August The river Souchez from Lens to Angres; thence a line to Grenay--Vermelles Station--Vendin-le-Vieil.
The Flanders Offen-
  sive (7 June-10
  November, 1917)		 THE BATTLE OF MESS-
  INES, 1917.		 Capture of Wyts-
   chaete.		   7-14 June Road Frelinghien--le Bizet--Petit Pont--Neuve Eglise--Dranooutre--Locre--la Clytte--Diekebusch--Kruisstraat; thence a line to Zillebeke--Gheluvelt.
THE BATTLES OF YPRES,
   1917		     31 July-10 Nov.  
   (i) Battle of Pilckem
         Ridge.		     31 July-2 August The Comines-Ypres Canal as far as Voormezeele; thence road to Vlamertinghe Château--Elverdinghe Château--Woesten--Bixchoote.
  (ii) Battle of Lange-
         marck, 1917.		     16-18 August
 (iii) Battle of the Me-
         nin Road Ridge.		     20-25 September
 (iv) Battle of Polygon
         Wood.		     26 September-
   3 October.
  (v) Battle of Brood-
         seinde.		     4 October
 (vi) Battle of Poelcap-
         pelle.		     9 October
(vii) First Battle of
         Passchendaele.		     12 October
(viii) Second Battle of
         Passchendaele.		     26 October-
   10 November.
The Cambrai Oper-
  ations (20 Novem-
  ber-7 December,
  1917)		 BATTLE OF CAMBRAI, 1917.     20 November-
3 December.		  
  The Tank Attack   20-21 November Road Honnecourt--Villers Guislain--Gouzeaucourt--Metz--Ruyaulcourt--Beaumetz--Morchies--Lagnicourt--Quéant
  The German
   Counter Attacks.		   30 November-
   3 December.		 Road Ronssoy--Villers Faucon--Fins--Ruyaulcourt--Beaumetz--Morchies--Lagnicourt--Quéant
 

CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES AND OTHER ENGAGEMENTS IN WHICH CANADIAN TROOPS
PARTICIPATED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919--Continued

FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1914-1918--Continued
Operations Battles Actions, etc. Limits
Name Tactical
incidents
included		 Chronological Geographical

V. THE GERMAN OFFENSIVES, 1918
The Offensive in
  Picardy (21 March
  -5 April, 1918)		 THE FIRST BATTLES OF
  THE SOMME, 1918.		     21 March-5 April.  
   (i) Battle of St. Quen-
         tin.		     21-23 March The river Oise to Chauny; thence road to Guiscard--Ham--Péronne--Bapaume--Boyelles; thence the river Cojeul.
Actions at the
   Somme Crossings.		 24-25 March The line of the Somme from Ham to Hem.
  (ii) First Battle of
         Bapaume.		     24-25 March The river somme to Bray; thence road to Albert--Martinsart--Sailly-au-Bois--Monchy-au-Bois--Arras; thence the river Scarpe.
(iii) Battle of Rosières     26-27 March Between the rivers Avre and Somme, east of road Pierrepont--Mézières--Demuin--Villers Bretonneux--Corbie.
(iv) First Battle of
         Arras, 1918.		     28 March Road Authuille--Bertrancourt--Couin--Gaudiempré--Arras--Oppy.
 (v) Battle of the Avre     4 April Between the rivers Avre and Somme.
--with subsequent
Capture of Hamel.
4 July
Between the road Lamotte--Longueau and the Somme.
The Offensive in
  Flanders (9-20
  April, 1918)		 THE BATTLES OF THE
  LYS.		     9-29 April.  
   (i) Battle of Estaires. First Defence of
   Givenchy, 1918		   9-11 April The la Bassée Canal to Béthune; thence road to St. Venant; thence a line to Vieux Berquin; from there the road to Bailleul--Armentières (all exclusive).
  (ii) Battle of Messines,
         1918.		 Loss of Hill 63   10-11 April Road Armentières--Bailleul--Locre--Dickebusch--Voormezeele; thence the Ypres-Comines Canal.
 (iii) Battle of Bailleul. Defence of Neuve
   Eglise.		   13-15 April Road Meteren--Mont des Cats--Boeschepe--Reninghelst--Ouderdom--Vierstraat--Wytschaete.
(iv) First Battle of
         Kemmel Ridge.		     17-19 April
--with subsequent
Action of la Becque.
28 June
The Lys Canal to St. Venant (exclusive); thence the road to Morbecque; thence a line to Swartenbrouck--Vieux Berquin.
 

CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES AND OTHER ENGAGEMENTS IN WHICH CANADIAN TROOPS
PARTICIPATED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919--Continued

FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1914-1918--Continued
Operations Battles Actions, etc. Limits
Name Tactical
incidents
included		 Chronological Geographical

VI. THE ADVANCE TO VICTORY, 1918
The Advance in
  Picardy (8 August-
  3 September, 1918).		 THE BATTLE OF AMIENS.     8-11 August. Between the roads Amiens--Roys and Amiens--Albert (Amiens exclusive).
--with subsequent
Actions round Dam-
   ery.
15-17 August
Road Roys--Bouchoir--Warvillers--Vrély (exclusive)--Hattencourt.
The Breaking of the
  Hindenburg Line
  (26 August-12 Octo-
  ber, 1918).		 THE SECOND BATTLES OF
   ARRAS, 1918.		     26 August-
   3 September		  
   (i) Battle of the Scarpe,
         1918.		 Capture of Monchy-
   le-Preux		   26-30 August Noreuil (exclusive)--St. Léger (exclusive)--Boisleux-au-Mont--Roelincourt--Bailleul-Oppy.
  (ii) Battle of the Dro-
         court-Queant Line		     2-3 September Moeuvres (exclusive)--Noreuil (exclusive)--St. Léger (exclusive)--Monchy-le-Preux--Pelves; thence the river Scarpe.
THE BATTLES OF THE
         HINDENBURG LINE.		     12 September-
   9 October.		  
  (i) Battle of the Canal
         du Nord.		 Capture of Bourlon
   Wood.		   27 September-
   1 October		 Road Banteux--Gouzeaucourt (exclusive)--Fins (exclusive)--Ytres--Lagnicourt--Quéant--Cagnicourt--Récourt--Lécluse (exclusive); thence the river Sensée.
 (ii) Battle of the St.
         Quentin Canal.		     29 September-
   2 October		 Road St. Quentin (exclusive)--Vermand--Roisel--Villers-Faucon--Fins-Gouzeaucourt--Banteux (exclusive).
(iii) Battle of the Beau-
         revoir Line.		     3-5 October Road Sequehart--Bellenglise--Pontru--Epéhy--Vendhuille--Villers-Ou-tréaux.
(iii>(iv) Battle of Cambrai,
         1918.		 Capture of Cambrai   8-9 October Road Fresnoy--Sequehart--Bellinglise--Bellicourt--Vendhuille-Villers-Guislain--Villers-Plouich--Graincourt--Bourlon--Oisy-le-Verger; thence the river Sensée.
--including
  The Pursuit to the
  Selle (9-12 Octo-
  ber).		      
9-12 October.		  
The Final Advance--
  Flanders (28 Sept.-
     11 Nov.).
BATTLE OF YPRES, 1918		    
28 September-
   2 October.
Road Armentières--Bailleul--Locre--Reninghelst--Vlamertinghe Château--Elverdinghe Château; thence a line to Moorslede.
  Picardy (17 October-
     11 November).		 BATTLE OF VALENCIENNES  Capture of Mont
   Houy		   1-2 November. The Bavai-Cambrai road as far as Vendegies; thence the stream to Monchaux-sur-Ecaillon; thence a line to Haveluy (exclusive)--Bellaing (exclusive)--Aremberg (exclusive); thence along the southern edge of the forests of Vicoigne and Raismes.
 

CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES AND OTHER ENGAGEMENTS IN WHICH CANADIAN TROOPS
PARTICIPATED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919--Continued

FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1914-1918--Continued
Operations Battles Actions, etc. Limits
Name Tactical
incidents
included		 Chronological Geographical

VI. THE ADVANCE TO VICTORY, 1918--Concluded
  Picardy,(17 October-
     11 November).--
     Concluded		 THE BATTLE OF THE SAMBRE.     4 November. The railway Boué--le Cateau (exclusive); thence road to Romiers--Famars; thence a line to la Sentinelle (exclusive)--Anzin; thence due north to the southern edge of the forest of Raismes; thence along southern edge to Escautpont (exclusive).
--with subsequent
 (i) Passage of the
      Grande Hon-
      nelle;
5-7 November.
The railway Bavai--Wargnies-le-Grand--Curgies; thence a line to Estreux--St. Saulvé (exclusive)--Bruay-sur-l'Escault to southern edge of the forest of Raismes; thence road to Fresnes.
            and
(ii) Capture of Mons
11 November
East of a line Gauly (exclusive)--Framieres--Wasmuel--Tertre (exclusive)--Villerot (exclusive).


MACEDONIA, 1915-1917


DARDANELLES, 1915-1916


EGYPT AND PALESTINE, 1916,1918

EASTERN FRONTIER AND PALESTINE

The Invasion of Palestine


NORTH WEST PERSIA AND THE CASPIAN, 1918-1919
 

CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES AND OTHER ENGAGEMENTS IN WHICH CANADIAN TROOPS
PARTICIPATED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919--Concluded

RUSSIA, 1918-1919
Operations Battles Actions, etc. Limits
Name Tactical
incidents
included		 Chronological Geographical

MURMAN, 1918-1919

ARCHANGEL, 1918-1919
Seizure of the White
  Sea ports and In-
  itial Advances
  (July-October,
  1918).		     Affair of Selatski 4 November. The Dvina above Tulgas (exclusive).
Defensive Operations
  1918-1919.
  (October-August).		  
(a) Between the Vol-
  ogda Railway and
  the Dvina River.		     Affairs at Tarasovo. 25 and 29 January.  
Attack on Kadish. 7 February. Between Kadish and Avdiaskaya.
Defence of
  Sredmekhrenga.		 8-11 February.  
(b) On the Dvina and
  Vaga Rivers.		     Affair of Tulgas. 11-13 November. The Dvina above Chamova.
Defence of Shen-
  kursk.		 15-25 January. The Vaga above Bereznik (exclusive).
Affairs round
  Vistavka.		 1-4 and 8-10 March. The Vaga above Bereznik (exclusive).

SIBERIA, 1918-1919
H.Q. 903-13
P.C. 151 of 31-1-28.
 
 G.O.162 
   1928

THE GREAT WAR--LIST OF BATTLES AND OTHER ENGAGEMENTS
   General Order 7 of 1928 is amended as under:--
   (1) Under "THE BATTLES OF ARRAS, 1917" opposite "(iii) Battle of Arleux", in last column,  for "Vimy, (exclusive)" substitute "Vimy (inclusive)".
   (2) Under "THE BATTLES OF THE HINDENBURG LINE" after "(ii) Battle of the St. Quentin Canal" insert--
(iii) Battle of the Beau-
   revoir Line.		     3- 5 October Road Sequehart--Bellenglise--Pontru--Epéhy--Vendhuille--Villers-Outréaux.
   For "(iii)" against Battle of Cambrai, 1918, substitute "(iv)".
H.Q. 903-13
Approved by Gov.-in-Council--P.C. 1637 of 10-9-28

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