✦ History

Part of World War I

Battle of the St Quentin Canal

September 29 – October 2, 1918 · Battle of the St Quentin Canal

Result Allied victory

The British Fourth Army, with Australian and American divisions, broke the Hindenburg Line at Bellicourt and Riqueval.

On the map Contemporaries

Allies

Central Powers

Other

United Kingdom
Australia
United States
France
German Empire
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson military commander John Monash military commander Walter Braithwaite military commander
Hans Carl Adolph von Carlowitz military commander

Strength and losses

United States Casualties 13,182

Australia Casualties 2,577

Captured
36,000

Units

1st Army (France) Fourth Army (United Kingdom) 36th Army Corps (France) Australian Corps IX Corps (United Kingdom) 46th (North Midland) Division
2nd Army (German Empire)
1st Division (German Empire)