* 1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.

The first tank versus tank action took place on 24 April 1918 at Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, when three British Mark IVs met an advance of three German A7Vs, supported by infantry.

* 1918 – First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.

British armoured car and motorcycle at the Battle of Megiddo ( 1918 ), allowing for rapid mobile warfare.

The British Army's lessons were mainly drawn from the successful infantry and artillery offensives on the Western Front in late 1918.

Following the publication of the Declaration the British had dispatched Commander David George Hogarth to see Hussein in January 1918 bearing the message that the " political and economic freedom " of the Palestinian population was not in question.

Continuing Arab disquiet over Allied intentions also led during 1918 to the British Declaration to the Seven and the Anglo-French Declaration, the latter promising " the complete and final liberation of the peoples who have for so long been oppressed by the Turks, and the setting up of national governments and administrations deriving their authority from the free exercise of the initiative and choice of the indigenous populations.

On November 1918 the large group of Palestinian Arab dignitaries and representatives of political associations addressed a petition to the British authorities in which they denounced the declaration.

Allenby's force, now including Indian Army units which replaced a number of British units sent to the Western Front, captured the southern Jordan Valley in 1918 and carried out two major, but unsuccessful attacks to Amman and Es Salt and occupied part of the Jordan Valley, during preparations for his final successful assault in September at the Battle of Megiddo.

In September 1914 cavalry comprised 9. 28 % of the total manpower of the British Expeditionary Force in France — by July 1918 this proportion had fallen to 1. 65 %.

* 1918 – Constance Markievicz while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.

On November 18, von Hindenburg testified in front of this parliamentary commission, and cited a December 17, 1918 Neue Zürcher Zeitung article that summarized two earlier articles in the Daily Mail by British General Frederick Barton Maurice with the phrase that the German army had been ' dagger-stabbed from behind by the civilian populace ' (" von der Zivilbevölkerung von hinten erdolcht .").

The Outline of English Phonetics which followed in 1918 is the first truly comprehensive description of British Received Pronunciation, and indeed the first such description of the standard pronunciation of any language.

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

In December 1918, republicans ( then represented by the Sinn Féin party ) won 73 Irish seats out of 105 in the 1918 General Election to the British Parliament, on a policy of abstentionism and Irish independence.

The Conscription Crisis of 1918 further intensified public support for Sinn Féin before the general elections to the British Parliament on 14 December 1918, which resulted in a landslide victory for Sinn Féin, whose MPs gathered in Dublin on 21 January 1919 to form Dáil Éireann and adopt the Declaration of Independence.

Locations in Southern and Central Appalachia visited by the British folklorist Cecil Sharp in 1916 ( blue ), 1917 ( green ), and 1918 ( red ).

* 1977 – Anthony Crosland, British politician ( b. 1918 )

* 1918 – British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.

The German army did not alter its military plans concerning Finland after the peace treaty with the Bolsheviks because the Civil War of the Finns had opened an easy access with low costs to Fennoscandia, and because troops of a British Naval squadron had invaded the harbour of Murmansk on the northwestern coast of Russia by the Arctic Ocean on 9 March 1918.

He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1918.

The WG frame & cylinder were then shortened for the. 455 & the variant was adopted in the 1880s as the Webley Mk 1. Webley " WG " Army Model ( a. k. a. Webley Government ) Revolver cal 455 / 476 (. 476 Enfield ) Nicknamed " the British Peacemaker " in the United States, the Mk 1 was manufactured in. 450,. 455 Webley, and. 476 calibre and founded a family of revolvers that were the standard handguns of the British Army, Royal Navy, and British police constabularies from 1887 to 1918.

The first was the Bristol Braemar bomber, flying in 1918 with the Mk II version in 1919.

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< center > Leftward-opening breech of British BL 12 inch Mk X naval gun | 12-inch gun on HMAS Australia ( 1911 ) | HMAS Australia, 1918.

* 1918 – S. V. Ranga Rao, Indian actor, director, and producer ( d. 1974 )

* 1918 – Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan ( b. 1844 )

Arguably, the first mechanized infantry were 36 two-man infantry squads carried forward by Mark V * tanks at the Battle of Amiens in 1918.

* 1844 – Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire ( d. 1918 )

On June 16, 1918, Eugene V. Debs, a political activist, delivered a speech in Canton, Ohio, the main theme of which " was socialism, its growth, and a prophecy of its ultimate success.

* July 4 – Mehmed VI ( 1918 – 1922 ) succeeds Mehmed V ( Resad ) ( 1909 – 1918 ) as Ottoman Sultan.

* November 2 – Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1918 )

George V ( George Frederick Ernest Albert ; 3 June 186520 January 1936 ) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ) until his death in 1936.

Eugene V. Debs with Max Eastman and Rose Pastor Stokes in 1918

At one level, the Gulag Archipelago traces the history of the system of forced labour camps that existed in the Soviet Union from 1918 to 1956, starting with V. I.

On 12 August 1918 Monash was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on the battlefield by King George V, the first time a British monarch had honoured a commander in such a way in 200 years.

These aircraft included the O / 100 of 1915, the O / 400 of 1918 and the four-engined V / 1500 with the range to reach Berlin.

The V / 1500 only just reached operational service as the war ended in 1918.

Mehmed V Reshad ( Ottoman Turkish: محمد خامس Meḥmed-i ẖâmis, or ) ( 2 / 3 November 1844 – 3 / 4 July 1918 ) was the 35th Ottoman Sultan.

Mehmed V died at Yıldız Palace on 3 July 1918 at the age of 73, only four months before the end of World War I.

* Mehmed V ( 1848 – 1918 ), 39th Ottoman Sultan

On June 16, 1918, Eugene V. Debs made an anti-war speech and was arrested under the Espionage Act of 1917.

K. V. Mahadevan was born in in 1918 at Krishnancoil, Kanyakumari district.

Grossmith's last stage appearance was in 1918, in his old role of Lord Arthur Pomeroy in A Pantomime Rehearsal, with an all-star cast including Charles Hawtrey, Fay Compton, Irene Castle and Rutland Barrington, at a charity matinée attended by King George V, Queen Mary and Queen Alexandra.

* Official History 1918: Edmonds, Brigadier-General Sir James E., Military Operations France and Belgium, 1918 Volume V: 26 September – 11 November: The Advance to Victory 1947 ( reprint Imperial War Museum, 1992 ) ( ISBN 1-87023-06-2 ).

Ernest Augustus III ( Ernest Augustus Christian George ; ; 17 November 1887 – 30 January 1953 ), reigning Duke of Brunswick ( 2 November 1913 – 8 November 1918 ), was a grandson of George V of Hanover, whom the Prussians deposed in 1866.

* was a V and W class destroyer commissioned into the RN in 1918.