Canadian troops construct plank roads to allow heavy traffic to pass after the battle of Vimy Ridge, France, in April 1917

On This Day 16th April 1917.
At the second Battle of the Aisne (between Soissons and Reims) the French take first German positions between Soissons and Craonne, and second positions to the south of Juvincourt, and the advance line to the Aisne Canal between Loivre and Courcy.

German prisoners on the station platform at Caestre awaiting to be entrained, 15 April 1918.© IWM (Q 10935)

Battle of Bailleul. Men of the Middlesex Regiment holding a street barricade in Bailleul, 15 April 1918, just before the fall of the town.© IWM (Q 6531)

On This Day 15th April 1918.
As fierce fighting rages, the Germans capture Bailleul and the Wulverghem line.

On This Day 14th April 1918.
General Foch appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies in France.

On This Day 14th April 1918.
Neuve Eglise is taken by the Germans.

French soldiers moving into attack from their trench during the Verdun battle, 1916.

Party of British troops resting by a wrecked building in Athies, April 1917. IWM Q 1980

Troops embussing in Arras after the fighting at Monchy-le-Preux (captured by 37th Division on 11 April 1917). IWM Q 6178

On This Day 12th April 1917.
British advance north of Vimy Ridge, taking the 'Pimple' and Bois en Hache, and south of the Arras-Cambrai road they take Heninel and Wancourt.
12th April 1918.
Strong German attacks at Bailleul and Wulverghem, Neuve Eglise and Messines penetrated.

Canadian soldiers in a captured German machine-gun emplacement, Battle of Vimy Ridge, April 1917.

On This Day 11th April 1918.
The British hold at Hollebeke and Messines, but are forced back beyond Ploegsteert and Steenwercke to the south of Neuve Eglise and Bailleul. The Germans capture Merville and claim 20,000 prisoners in the Northern sectors.

On This Day 11th April 1916.
Its estimated that the German losses since the beginning of the war are 2,730,917.

The 20th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, taking ammunition to forward guns during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, April 1917.

On This Day 10th April 1917.
The British hospital ship 'HMHS Salta' is sunk by a mine in the English Channel off the port of Le Havre, France. A reported 52 drowned.

Canadian lnfantry advancing during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, April 1917.

On This Day 9th April 1917.
The Canadians take Vimy Ridge, apart from the northern tip, and also take five villages and a reported 6,000 German prisoners.

On This Day 9th April 1916.
At the Battle of Verdun the Germans gain a footing on Hill 295, but fail in the attack on a 12 mile front west of the Meuse.

The 3rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment passing through the ruins of Wytschaete near Ieper ( Ypres) 1917.