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DATE

INFORMATION

FRONT

MENU

Observation Balloon, The

1914-1918

Battle of the Frontiers. Captured by Germans.

AIR

M

October Revolution, The

Oct 1917

Major battle in the French invasion of Lorraine.

EF

M

Operation Alberich

Sep 1916-Mar 1917

Painted the Arch of Ctesiphon while a POW

WF

M

Operation Albion in the Baltic Sea

Oct – Nov 1917

Mesopotamia: British capture Turkish supply base.

SEA

M

Operation Friedensturm

July 1918

The major participants – Allies and Central Powers

WF

M

Operation Turk’s Cross

May 1917

Both sides try to defeat their enemy by starvation.

AIR

M

Orwell, George – English novelist

1945

Bulgaria. Much land lost to neighbouring states.

EF

M

Ostend Raids, The

Apr-May 1918

First all-British offensive. The village is captured.

SEA

M

Ostend, The port of

Oct 1914

Australians seize the German colony in the Pacific

WF

M

Otranto Straits, The Battle of the

May 1917

Seizure of the German colony of Western Samoa

SEA

M

Ottoman attacks on Suez Canal

1916

Kamerun: decisive Allied victory in the north

ME

M

Ottoman Empire enters the war

Oct 1914

Replaced by Czar as commander of Russian army

ME

M

Ottoman Empire: Peace Settlement

Aug 1920

Takes command of an army in danger of defeat.

Versailles

M

Ottoman Empire – Seven Campaigns

1914-1918

Credited with ending the supremacy of the Fokker.

ME

M

Ourcq River, The Battle of

Aug 1914

Germans – 3 Divs – forced to make a hasty retreat.

WF

M

Owen, Lt. Wilfred – English war poet

Sep-Oct 1917

Ambitious French assault that ends in total failure.

WF

M

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