Explanatory notes are given against some of these dates, but to read about particular battles or political events please go to Bibliography

It is important to remember that heavy censorship of news took place throughout them, and therefore knowledge of many of these events was not available until long after they happened - or until after the wars had ended.

The Battle of Cambrai. An eight mile wide attack with Tanks.

US 'Rainbow' Division (representing every State) arrives at the Western Front under Colonel Douglas MacArthur.

The Battle of Caporetto (In the Italian Alps and lasted into to November) with the Italian retreat.

Lloyd George says"peace can only be negotiated with the German people - not their leaders".

King orders all German Titles to be dropped and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to become Windsor, and Battenburg to become Mountbatten.

330 majority in House of Commons in favour of votes to wives over the age of 30 years.

French Army mutinies and strikes at factories in protest at the war.

250,000 workers in Berlin end strike when promised better rations and a say in running of the Food Councils.

America enters the war on the side of the Allies.

Ramsgate and Broadstairs shelled from the sea.Three US ships sunk without warning by German U Boats. President Wilson calls a Special Congress to debate US relations with Germany.

Commission of Enquiry lays part of the blame for the Dardanelles campaign failure on Lord Kitchener.

Cunard Liner sunk by Germans in the Mediterranean with heavy loss of life.

A brief summary of 1917.

Revolution took Russia out of the war and brought Communism into the world.

French forces mutinied and British influence in strategy became more important. The appalling failure to win the battles of Ypres - known now as Passchendaele - its objective - was to cause great suffering despondency.

1917 saw the Americans enter the war - but to little immediate effect. But by July 1918, 1,200,000 American soldiers were to be in Europe.

Bagdad fell to the Allies in March. In June the famous explosion of 19 enormous mines under the German lines proved a morale booster - as did the seizure by the British and Canadians of Vimy Ridge.

The Italians were forced back to the River Piave by the Germans.

In Cambrai, the British won a spectacular - but unexploited - battle with Churchill's new tanks and this caused the Church Bells to be prematurely rung in London.

Jerusalem fell to the Allies in in December.

The purpose of these pages is to tell the story of Churchill's life - not to give a detailed account of the wars he was involved in, for that is a vast subject.

Month by month factual and photographic calendars of the Ist World War

It is important to remember that heavy censorship of news took place throughout them, and therefore knowledge of many of these events was not available until long after they happened - or until after the wars had ended. Morevover, the experiences of the soldiers were so terrible, that of the the few who returned, none spoke of them for many many years.

Explanatory notes are given against some of these dates, but to read about particular battles or political events please go to Bibliography