Second Army (United Kingdom)

Army · United Kingdom · from December 26, 1914

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

December 26, 1914 – April 21, 1915 Holds the Ypres salient Map
April 22, 1915 – June 6, 1917 Second Battle of Ypres Holds against the gas attack Map
June 7, 1917 – September 19, 1917 Battle of Messines (1917) Takes the Messines ridge Map
September 20, 1917 Battle of Passchendaele Plumer's bite-and-hold attacks Map
September 20–26, 1917 Battle of the Menin Road Ridge
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 Battle of the Lys (1918) Holds the Lys Map
November 11, 1918 On the Scheldt at the Armistice (approximate) Map
June 6, 1944 Operation Overlord Gold and Sword beaches Map
June 6 – August 29, 1944 Normandy landings
June 6 – August 6, 1944 Battle for Caen
July 18, 1944 Caen and Operation Goodwood Map
August 12–21, 1944 Falaise pocket
September 3, 1944 Brussels liberated Map
September 20, 1944 Operation Market Garden Nijmegen: the Market Garden corridor Map
March 1945 – March 24, 1945 Operation Plunder
March 24, 1945 Western Allied invasion of Germany Rhine crossing at Wesel Map
May 3, 1945 – June 25, 1945 Hamburg surrenders Map