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Order of battle graphic of North Army. IX Reserve Corps is also known as the Army of the North was held back in Schleswig in case of British landings; moved up in late August as part of 1st Army. The North Army had following order of battle: [27] Commander: General der Infanterie Max von Boehn. Chief of Staff: Oberst Paulus von Stolzmann
In addition to the main body of the Imperial German Navy stationed in home waters, Germany also maintained a number of overseas deployments of ships. The majority of these were usually of one or two cruisers operating independently, with the primary formation of German warships outside German waters being the East Asia Squadron , under the ...
German infantry on the march, September 1914 This is the order of battle for both the Russian and German armies at the Battle of Tannenberg , August 17 to September 2, 1914. Russian Northwestern Front
The 4th Army faced the British in Flanders for the rest of the war, notably defending in the Battle of Passchendaele (1917), attacking in the 1918 German spring offensive and finally being pushed back in the Hundred Days Offensive from August 1918.
2 August 1914 – 29 January 1919: Country German Empire: Branch Imperial German Army: Type: Army: Engagements: World War I. Western Front. Battle of the Frontiers. Battle of Lorraine; Battle of Grand Couronné; Race to the Sea. Battle of Albert (1914) Battle of Arras (1914) First Battle of Ypres; Battle of Festubert; Third Battle of Artois ...
The Battle of Charleroi, another of the frontier battles, was an action taking place 12–23 August 1914. The battle was joined by the French Fifth Army , advancing north towards the River Sambre , and the German Second and Third armies, moving southwest through Belgium.
August 1914 Battle of Tannenberg: German Eighth Army and Russian Northwest Front: August 17 – September 1, 1914 Battle of Mons: British Expeditionary Force and German First Army: August 23, 1914 First Battle of the Marne: British Expeditionary Force, French Army, and German Army: September 5–12, 1914 Australian occupation of German New Guinea
The 1st Army during World War I, fought on the Western Front and took part in the Schlieffen Plan offensive against France and Belgium in August 1914. Commanded by General Alexander von Kluck, the 1st Army's job was to command the extreme right of the German forces in attacking the left flank of the French Army and encircling Paris, bringing a rapid conclusion to the war.