Timeline

Foreword 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 Afterword
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1914
August
   16 Winston Churchill orders the formation of the RND
September
   21 Marine Brigade embarks for Dunkirk
October
     4 The Siege of Antwerp
November
   27 Entered Blanford camp
1915
February
     6 Plymouth & Chatham Battalions embark at Plymouth
   28 Division embarks at Avonmouth
March
     3 Plymouth Battalion attempts landings during naval attack
   18 Diversion landing on Western Gallipoli cancelled
April
     1 Naval Brigades ordered to Suez Canal Kantara defences
     5 Anson Battalion ordered to Alexandria
   25 The Gallipoli Landings
May
     6 The Second Battle of Krithia
 28-29 Benbow, Collingwood & Hawke Btns disembark Cape Helles
June
     4 The Third Battle of Krithia
July
   13 The Action of Achi Baba Nullah
1916
January
     8 The Evacuation of Gallipoli
Feb-Apr 2nd Brigade at Salonica Defences
April
   29 Authority transferred from the Admiralty to the War Office
May
   12 Moved to France
June
   19 Redesignated 63rd (Royal Naval) Division
July
   17 Entered trenches at Bully Grenay
October
   13 Transferred to the Vth Corps of the Fifth Army
November
   13 The Battle of the Ancre
1917
February
   17 The Actions of Miraumont
April
   23 The Second Battle of the Scarpe
   28 The Battle of Arleux
October
   26 The Second Battle of Passchendaele
December
   30 The Action of Welsh Ridge
1918
March
   21 The Battle of St. Quentin
   24 The First Battle of Bapaume
April
     5 The Battle of The Ancre
June
   21 Entered trenches at Auchonvillers
August
   21 The Battle of Albert
September
     2 The Battle of Drocourt-Queant
   27 The Battle of the Canal du Nord
October
     8 The Battle of Cambrai
November
     5 The Passage of the Grand Honelle
1919
April Demobilisation completed
June Disbanded

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