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APRIL - MAY - JUNE
April
5th, 1917
1
9th, 1917
11
9th, 1918
11
14th, 1918
11
22nd,1915
11
22nd,1918
11
24th, 1916
11
25th, 1915
11
27th, 1915
11
29th, 1916
APRIL
United States declares war on Germany
Battle of Vimy Ridge begins.
Battle of the Lys begins.
General Foch appointed Generalissimo of the Allied Armies
in France.
Second Battle ofYpres begins. Germans use asphyxiating
gases.
British Naval attack on Zeebruge and Ostend.
Rebellion in Ireland.
Allied Forces land in Gallipoli.
General Sir Herbert Plumer given command of all troops
in the Ypres Salient.
Fall of Kut.
MAY
May 7th, 1915 The Lusitania torpedoed and sunk by the Germans.
12th, 1915 Windhoek, capital of German South-West Africa captured
by General Botha.
19th, 1918 Germans bomb British hospitals at Etaples.
23rd, 1915 Italy declares war on Austria.
31st, 1916 Sea battle off the coast of Jutland.
JUNE
June 5th, 1916 Loss of Earl Kitchener on H.M.S. Hampshire.
7th, 1915 Flight-Lieut. Warneford attacks and destroys Zeppelin
between Ghent and Brussels.
7th, 1917 British victory at Messines Ridge.
29th, 1917 General Allenby in command in Egypt.
