British Expeditionary Force (World War I)

Army · United Kingdom · from August 5, 1914 · 247,400 strong

The British army in France and Flanders under John French and, from December 1915, Douglas Haig; from 1915 its points are General Headquarters.

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Sub-units 7

People who served 1

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

Strength and losses

Nominal Strength: 247,400 1914–1915

Movements

August 23, 1914 Battle of Mons Holds the Mons canal Map
August 26, 1914 Battle of Le Cateau II Corps stands at Le Cateau Map
September 6, 1914 First Battle of the Marne Advances to the Marne Map
September 13, 1914 First Battle of the Aisne Crosses the Aisne Map
October 20, 1914 – November 22, 1914 First Battle of Ypres Holds Ypres Map
December 26, 1914 – March 30, 1916 General Headquarters at Saint-Omer Map
March 10–13, 1915 Battle of Neuve Chapelle
April 22 – May 25, 1915 Second Battle of Ypres
September 25 – November 4, 1915 Third Battle of Artois
March 31, 1916 General Headquarters at Montreuil-sur-Mer Map
July 1 – November 18, 1916 Battle of the Somme
October 1 – November 11, 1916 Battle of the Ancre Heights
April 9–12, 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge
April 9 – May 16, 1917 Battle of Arras (1917)
June 7–14, 1917 Battle of Messines (1917)
July 31 – November 10, 1917 Battle of Passchendaele
September 20–26, 1917 Battle of the Menin Road Ridge
November 20 – December 7, 1917 Battle of Cambrai (1917)
March 21 – April 5, 1918 Operation Michael
April 9–29, 1918 Battle of the Lys (1918)
August 8–12, 1918 Battle of Amiens (1918)
August 8 – November 11, 1918 Hundred Days Offensive
September 29 – October 2, 1918 Battle of the St Quentin Canal
September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
November 8–16, 1942 Operation Torch
November 17, 1942 – May 13, 1943 Tunisian campaign
February 14–17, 1943 Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
February 19–25, 1943 Battle of Kasserine Pass
March 23, 1943 Battle of El Guettar
July 9, 1943 – May 2, 1945 Italian campaign
July 9 – August 17, 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily
September 3–16, 1943 Allied invasion of Italy
December 8–17, 1943 Battle of San Pietro Infine
May 11–23, 1944 Operation Diadem
June 6 – August 30, 1944 Operation Overlord
June 6 – August 29, 1944 Normandy landings
June 6, 1944 – July 1944 Invasion of Normandy
June 6 – August 6, 1944 Battle for Caen
July 25–31, 1944 Operation Cobra
August 12–21, 1944 Falaise pocket
August 25 – December 31, 1944 Operation Olive
August 25, 1944 – March 7, 1945 Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine
September 17–25, 1944 Operation Market Garden
October 2–21, 1944 Battle of Aachen
December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945 Battle of the Bulge
December 26, 1944 Battle of Elsenborn Ridge
March 1945 – March 24, 1945 Operation Plunder
March 22 – May 8, 1945 Western Allied invasion of Germany
April 9–21, 1945 Battle of Bologna
November 1, 1955 – April 30, 1975 Vietnam War