On This Day 8th Oct 1914. General Foch takes supreme command of the Allied armies defending the Coast. Antwerp is bombarded by the Germans. Belgians and Naval Brigades leave (being cut off and losing 2,000 interned in Holland).

On This Day 8th Oct 1917. The Germans claim to have broken up French attacks south west of Beaumont (Reims).

On This Day 8th Oct 1918. Great Allied (3rd and 4th British Armies, 30th American Division and French) three mile advance on St. Quentin-Cambrai on a 20 mile front. A reported capture of over 10,000 prisoners and 150 guns.

Battle of Cambrai. Men of the 20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (25th Division) resting by a tank (serial number 9891), disabled by side-slipping down a railway embankment. Near Premont, 8 October 1918.

On This Day 9th Oct 1914. Antwerp is occupied by the Germans. 9th Oct 1917. Third phase of the third Battle of Ypres. The French and British attack east and north-east.  Outskirts of Houthulst Forest taken.

On This Day 9th Oct 1917. One mile allied advance on Passchendaele Ridge, 2,000 prisoners.  Enemy counter-attack drives in advance troops south of Ypres-Staden railway on 2,000 yards front.

On This Day 9th Oct 1918. With the advance continuing its announced that since the 21st August the entire Hindenburg system has been broken through. A reported 110,000 German prisoners and 1,200 guns taken.

On This Day 10th Oct 1914. At Antwerp the last forts surrender. 10th Oct 1915. British submarine sinks "Lulea" German metal steamer. 10th Oct 1916. South of Somme, French advance on a three mile front and take all objectives, Bois de Chaulnes Ablaincourt, and a reported

On This Day 10th Oct 1918. RMS Leinster served as the Kingstown-Holyhead mailboat until she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-123, which was under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Robert Ramm while bound for Holyhead. She sank just outside Dublin Bay at a

Remembering Miss Barbara Esmée St John, Voluntary Aid Detachments. Died of illness contracted on active service in France 12 October 1916.© IWM WWC H2-67-1

British nurse Edith Cavell (49) executed in Brussels. ww1ieper1917.wordpress.com/2024/10/12/bri…

Mail face protectors worn by American and French tank gunners. Ricicourt (Meuse), 12 October 1918.© IWM Q 93249

A group of guards, including Coldstream Guards and Irish Guards, crouching outside a captured German dugout, examining a muddy German rifle, near Langemarck (Langemark-Poelkpelle), 12 October 1917. IWMQ3011

Wounded troops with British nurses arriving in Ghent on motor buses from Antwerp, 12 October 1914.IWMQ53316

Men on fatigue duty with mud-scoops at Saint Julien, Ypres, 12 October 1917.IWMQ6056

On This Day 13th Oct 1914. Ypres is occupied by the Allies, who attempt an offensive. Lille and Ghent occupied by the Germans. On This Day 13th Oct 1915. Zeppelin raid on London with a reported 59 killed and 114 injured.

British 9th Lancers returning from the front at Premont, 13 October 1918.© IWM Q 72605

A congested road at Fricourt. Staff-cars, mule-limbers, lorries, RAMC ambulance, infantry marching and pioneers road widening. 13 October 1916.© IWM Q 5794