British Second Army (1914–1918)

Army · United Kingdom · from December 26, 1914

Horace Smith-Dorrien's and then Herbert Plumer's army in the Ypres salient.

Recorded for World War I.

December 26, 1914 – April 21, 1915 Holds the Ypres salient · map
April 22, 1915 – June 6, 1917 Holds against the gas attack (Second Battle of Ypres) · map
June 7, 1917 – September 19, 1917 Takes the Messines ridge (Battle of Messines (1917)) · map
September 20, 1917 Plumer's bite-and-hold attacks (Battle of Passchendaele) · map
November 25, 1917 – March 16, 1918 Headquarters sent to Italy (approximate) · map
March 17, 1918 – April 8, 1918 Back at Ypres · map
April 9, 1918 Holds the Lys (Battle of the Lys (1918)) · map
November 11, 1918 On the Scheldt at the Armistice (approximate) · map