The squadron remained dormant for a time, but was re-formed towards the end of the year, and is now equipped with De Havilland 10s, large twin-engined machines, and is stationed in India.
[Illustration: BRITISH BATTLES DURING 1918
The following diary will help to elucidate the map, which shows the ground gained by the British Allied Armies, and the series of battles from July to November, 1918.
[Sidenote: _8th Aug.--12th Aug._ 13 Inf. and 3 Cav. Divs. defeated 20 German Divs.]
THE BATTLE OF AMIENS disengaged Amiens, until then in range of the German guns, and freed the Paris-Amiens railway. Our attack was then transferred to the north in
[Sidenote: _21st Aug.-31st Aug._ 23 Divs. defeated 35 German Divs.]
THE BATTLE OF BAPAUME which, turning the flank of the German positions on the Somme, compelled the enemy to withdraw to the east bank of the river. His new positions were then turned from the north by
[Sidenote: _26th Aug.-3rd Sept._ 7 Divs. defeated 13 German Divs.]
THE BATTLE OF ARRAS by which the Drocourt-Quéant line was broken and the enemy was forced to fall back on the outer defences of the Hindenburg line. As the direct result of these battles
The LYS Salient was evacuated by the enemy and we regained Lens-Merville-Bailleul-Kemmel Hill and freed Hazebrouck and the important railways there. Then came
[Sidenote: _18th Sept.-19th Sept._ 14 Divs. defeated 15 German Divs.]
THE BATTLE OF EPEHY which broke through the outer Hindenburg defences and brought us into position for attack on the main line in
[Sidenote: _27th Sept.-10th Oct._ 35 Inf., 3 Cav. and 2 American Divs. defeated 45 German Divs.]
THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI-ST. QUENTIN which in ten days of victorious fighting broke through the last and strongest of the enemy’s fully prepared positions, opening the way to a war of movement and an advance on the German main lines of communication. These great assaults fell into three main phases:--
1. The storming of the Canal du Nord on the left of our attack and the advance on Cambrai, followed immediately by
2. THE GREAT BLOW WHICH SHATTERED THE HINDENBURG LINE AND TURNED THE DEFENCES OF ST. QUENTIN.
3. The development of these successes by a general attack on the whole front which broke through the last of the German defences in the rear of the Hindenburg Line, forcing the enemy to evacuate Cambrai and St. Quentin and fall back on the line of the River Selle. These battles, striking at vital enemy communications, created a huge salient in his lines. Meanwhile further north in