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British and Allied troops secure the line of the St. Quentin Canal. The Germans pull back to a new line running south from Cambrai.
Official end of the Battle of the St. Quentin Canal, the British Fourth Army and French First Army contribution to the first stage of the battle of Cambrai-St. Quention.
Elements from two battalions of the 308th Infantry become trapped in a steep sided gully between Bois d’Apremont and Charleveaux. They become known as the 'lost battalion' after spending a week under heavy German fire.
The Weymouth class cruiser HMS Weymouth is torpedoed by the Austrian submarine U-28 off Durazzo (now Durrës, Albania) but survives and is refitted after the end of the war.