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The actions of the 1st Middlesex in the Great War

Mobilisation

Battle of Mons 23rd August 1914

Retreat from Mons 24th August to 2nd September 1914

Battle of the Marne 7th to 10th September 1914

Battle of the Aisne 12th to 15th September 1914

Trench Warfare on the Aisne 15th September to 11th October 1914.

Battle of Armentières 13th October to 2nd November 1914

Trench Warfare 3rd November, 1914, to 30th June, 1915.

Preparations for the Battle of Loos 30th June to 24th September 1915.

Battle of Loos 25th September to 30th September 1915.

Trench warfare leading up to the Somme 1st October 1915 to 13th July 1916

Somme:- the Battle of Bazentin Ridge 13th July to 18th July 1916

Autumn and Winter 1916 18th July 1916 to 14th March 1917

The Regimental History does not appear to state what the 1st Middlesex did 15th March- 22nd April 1917

The Battles of Arras:-The Second Battle of the Scarpe 23rd to 24th April 1917

Summer 1917 25th April to 24th September 1917

The Battles of Ypres 1917:- Battle of the Menin Road Ridge 20th to 26th September 1917

Autumn and Winter 1917 24th September 1917 to 21st March 1918

The German Offensives of 1918 in Flanders 9th April to 29th April 1918

Summer in Flanders 1918 1st May - 28th September 1918

The breaking of the Hindenburg Line on the St. Quentin Canal: 29th September-2nd October 1918

The breaking of the Hindenburg Line at Cambrai 8th to 9th October 1918

Final Advance in Picardy 17th October-11th November 1918

Conclusion