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Home Battles & Offensives Armentières – All Years

Armentières – All Years

March 14, 2017Published By Ben Hillidge

Armentières.

GOOGLE MAPS Link centres on Armentières.

Armentières is a town in northern France on the border with Belgium and about mid-way between Bethune and Ypres. The Western Front was about 6kms east of the town. The main actions fought were the Battle of Armentieres in 1914 during the ‘Race to the Sea’ and during the 1918 German Spring Offensive (Kaiser Offensive) when the town was saturated in mustard gas.

A German warning notice on the door of a ruined building reading – “Armentieres is a mustard gas area”. (IWM Q 23792)

 

1914 

1914 . Race to the Sea. Battle of Armentières, 13 October – 2 November 1914

Men on the Gates at the Battle of Battle of Armentières – Battle of Armentières, 1 Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry; 13 October – 2 November 1914.

1915 June

Armentieres. 2 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. June. 1915

1915 August

Armentieres. Fleurbaix. 6 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. August 1915.

1915 December

Armentières. Fleurbaix. 6 Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. December 1915.

1916

1917

February

Ploegsteert Wood. 13 Bn Cheshire Regiment. 1 February 1917.

1918

Probably men of the Royal Horse Artillery with two 13 pounder 9 cwt anti-aircraft guns in action in Armentieres. End of March 1916. Motor lorry mounting, on left Mark III on right Mark I. (IWM Q 461)

 

 

 

References and Sources 

B&O All YEARS. Armentières. 

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