Historical place archive

Villers-Guislain in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Villers-Guislain in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1917–1917

Historical events in Villers-Guislain

1917

18 April 1917
Battle of Arras
Douglas Haig · World War, 1st

British Fifth Army advances against villages near the Hindenburg Line during the wider Arras operations.

Provenance

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