Sir Henry Rawlinson Sir John Monash Sir Walter Braithwaite George Windle Read
Adolph von Carlowitz
Strength
32 divisions: 30 British Empire; two American divisions[1]
39 divisions[a]
Casualties and losses
8,802 (partial)[3][4] 13,182[5] 2,577[6]
36,000 POW[7]
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Hundred Days Offensive
Amiens
Ailette
2nd Somme
3rd Albert
2nd Bapaume
Mont Saint-Quentin
2nd Scarpe
Havrincourt
Drocourt-Quéant
St.-Mihiel
Épehy
Canal du Nord
St. Quentin Canal
Meuse-Argonne
5th Ypres
2nd Cambrai
Courtrai
Burkel
Selle
Sambre
Le Quesnoy
Lys and Escaut
Valenciennes
Honnelles
2nd Mons
The Battle of St Quentin Canal was a pivotal battle of World War I that began on 29 September 1918 and involved British, Australian and American forces operating as part of the British Fourth Army under the overall command of General Sir Henry Rawlinson. Further north, part of the British Third Army also supported the attack.[8] South of the Fourth Army's 19 km (12 mi) front, the French First Army launched a coordinated attack on a 9.5 km (6 mi) front.[9] The objective was to break through one of the most heavily defended stretches of the German Siegfriedstellung (Hindenburg Line), which in this sector used the St Quentin Canal as part of its defences. The assault achieved its objectives (though not according to the planned timetable), resulting in the first full breach of the Hindenburg Line, in the face of heavy German resistance. In concert with other attacks of the Grand Offensive along the length of the line, Allied success convinced the German high command that there was little hope of an ultimate German victory.[10]
^Boraston 1920, pp. 282–285.
^Bean 1942, pp. 984, 985, 986, 995, 1008, 1013, 1027.
^Nichols 2004, p. 560.
^Scott & Middleton Brumwell 2001, p. 212.
^Clodfelter 2002, p. 454.
^Australian War Memorial.
^Boraston 1920, p. 285.
^Stacke 1928.
^Montgomery 1919, pp. 151–152.
^Lloyd 2014, pp. 195–198.
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