Western Front

The Western Front was one of the main theatres of war during World War I. Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France. The German advance was halted with the Battle of the Marne. Following the Race to the Sea, both sides dug in along a meandering line of fortified trenches, stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier with France, the position of which changed little except during early 1917 and again in 1918.

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1914 — 1918  Wikimedia, Wikidata
Defensive Sector
war front, France, Belgium, 

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1914-08-03T00:00:00Z

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1914 — 1918 Western Front

1870-08-10T00:00:00Z

1870-12-12T00:00:00Z

1870 Siege of Phalsbourg

1914-08-14T00:00:00Z

1914-08-25T00:00:00Z

1914 Battle of Lorraine

1914-08-18T00:00:00Z

1914-08-20T00:00:00Z

1914 Battle of Sarrebourg

1944-09-18T00:00:00Z

1944-09-29T00:00:00Z

1944 Battle of Arracourt

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At close grips2

A busy scene on the road, Bestanddeelnr 158-2402

I Weltkrieg-ERE2

Geiser Theodore (mons) Collection Q45354

I Weltkrieg-ERE16

I Weltkrieg-ERE9

Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S29737, Westfront, weibliche Hilfskräfte

IWM-Q-52982E

BASA-237K-1-361-15-From the West Front. Burial of German Soldiers. A Funeral Procession in the Streets of Noyon.

Aerial view Loos-Hulluch trench system July 1917

• Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I -
• The Western Front - 2000 non-fiction work by Richard Holmes
• All Quiet on the Western Front - 1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque, German, 1928, online
• Landscapes of War and Peace: Sussex, the South Downs and the Western Front 1914-18 - scientific article published in January 2014, online
• Fortifications of the Western Front 1914-18 - book on Western Front fortifications, English
• A Forgotten Contribution: re-establishing the production and significance of New Zealand's official First World War artists - 2015 doctoral thesis by Caroline Lord at University of Canterbury, Q1860
• A Pulverised Landscape? Landscape-scale Destruction and the Western Front During the Great War 1914-18 - chapter published in 2008

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
area	region	1001	County of Dagsburg		Wikidata
area	region	1284	Ban de la Roche		Wikidata
event	armed conflict		Battle of Donon	battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1870	Siege of Phalsbourg	siege	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1914	Western Front	war front	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1914	Battle of Lorraine	battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1914	Battle of Sarrebourg	battle	Wikidata
event	armed conflict	1944	Battle of Arracourt	United States, battle, Nazi Germany	Wikidata
site	fort		Fort de Manonviller	fort	Wikidata
commons	image		At close grips2		Commons
commons	image		A busy scene on the road, Bestanddeelnr 158-2402		Commons
commons	image		I Weltkrieg-ERE2		Commons
commons	image		Geiser Theodore (mons) Collection Q45354		Commons
commons	image		I Weltkrieg-ERE16		Commons
commons	image		I Weltkrieg-ERE9		Commons
commons	image		Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S29737, Westfront, weibliche Hilfskräfte		Commons
commons	image		IWM-Q-52982E		Commons
commons	image		BASA-237K-1-361-15-From the West Front. Burial of German Soldiers. A Funeral Procession in the Streets of Noyon.		Commons
commons	image		Aerial view Loos-Hulluch trench system July 1917		Commons