* 1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.

In 1918, the British Mk V tank was capable of carrying a small number of troops and in 1944, the Canadian general Guy Simonds ordered the conversion of redundant armoured vehicles to carry troops ( generically named " Kangaroos ").

* 1996 – Tran Van Tra, Vietnamese general and politician ( b. 1918 )

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election by a division of the Swansea District.

Sinn Féin won 73 out of 105 seats in Ireland at the general election held in December 1918, and in January 1919 organised themselves as the First Dáil, which then declared an independent Irish Republic.

* 1987 – Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager ( b. 1918 )

Because the Army Distinguished Service Medal is principally awarded to general officers, a list of notable recipients would include nearly every general and admiral since 1918, many of whom received multiple awards, as well as a few civilians and sergeants major prominent for their contributions to national defense.

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.

Overt alliance with Germany was not possible due to the result of the First World War, but in general the period of 1918 to 1939 was characterised by economic growth and increasing integration to the Western world economy.

A general offensive by the Whites ( whose Guards ' total force was about the same as that of the Red Guards ) began on 15 March 1918, bolstered by the intervention of the 10, 000-strong Baltic Sea Division and the 3, 000-strong Detachment Brandenstein of the German army.

In February 1918 General Mannerheim weighed the question of where to focus the general offensive of the Whites, between two strategically vital enemy strongholds: Tampere, Finland's major industrial town in the south-west, and Viipuri, Karelia's main city.

During the war of 1918 there were two kinds of Red and White political violence: ( i ) a calculated part of the general warfare, and ( ii ) more local, personal murders and corresponding acts of revenge.

The party went on to win a clear majority of seats in the 1918 general election: of the 73 seats in which Sinn Féin were elected, 25 were uncontested.

Eleven of the 26 were elected Teachta Dála ( members of the Dáil ) in the 1918 general election and 13 in the May 1921 election.

Grant, American Civil War general ( d. 1918 )

Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov (, ; August 18, 1870 – April 13, 1918 ) was a military intelligence officer, explorer, and general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and the ensuing Russian Civil War.

In that, he was encouraged by the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919, the Italian insurrection and general strikes of 1920, and industrial unrest in Britain, France, and the U. S.

A passionate orator, he was Labour leader at the 1983 general election when the party received its lowest share of the vote since 1918.

* 1829 – Peter Lumsden, British general in Indian army ( d. 1918 )

* 1918 – Paul Aussaresses, French general

* 1857 – Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general ( d. 1918 )

* 1881 – Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general ( d. 1918 )

Sinn Féin MPs elected in 1918 fulfilled their election promise not to take their seats in Westminster but instead set up an independent " Assembly of Ireland ", or Dáil Éireann, in the Irish language.

The VFU won a seat in the House of Representatives in 1918, and at the 1919 federal election the state-based country parties won seats in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.

In his first major speech after he had lost his seat in the 1918 general election, Asquith said: " That is the purpose and the spirit of Liberalism, as I learned it as a student in my young days, as I was taught it both by the precept and the example of the great Liberal statesman Mr Gladstone ... that remains the same today.

It comprises Sinn Féin members elected in the 1918 general election who, in accordance with their manifesto, have not taken their seats in the Parliament of the United Kingdom but chosen to declare an independent Irish Republic.

Michael's son, Billy, was election agent for Éamon de Valera in 1918 in West Belfast but refused to follow de Valera into democratic and constitutional politics upon the formation of Fianna Fáil.

In the December 1918 general election, a large majority of Irish seats in the Westminster parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland were won by Sinn Féin, with 73 of 105 constituencies returning Sinn Féin members.

" In the " Coupon election " of 1918 he declared this must be a land " fit for heroes to live in.

In calling the 1917 – 18 Irish Convention he attempted to settle the outstanding Home Rule for Ireland issue, but then his attempt to extend conscription to Ireland in April 1918 was disastrous, leading to the wipeout of the old Irish Home Rule Party at the December 1918 election.

Wilhelm, Duke of Urach ( 1864 – 1928 ), had the distinction of being under consideration for five thrones at different times: that of King of Wurttemberg in the 1890s, as the senior agnate by primogeniture when it became likely that King William II would die without male descendants, leaving as heir Duke Albrecht of Wurttemberg, a more distantly related, albeit dynastic, royal kinsman ; Prince of Albania in 1913 ; Prince of Monaco as the next heir by proximity of blood following the Hereditary Prince Louis during a succession crisis resolved in July 1918 ; Grand Duke of Alsace-Lorraine in 1917, and his election by the Taryba as King of Lithuania in July 1918.

He again won an Irish seat in the 1918 general election, serving as MP for Carlow – Kilkenny.

After the excitements of the 1918 – 1919 revolution, its five election results between 1919 and 1932 show a decreasing vote for left-wing parties.

Ua Buachalla was elected as a Sinn Féin MP for Kildare North at the 1918 general election.

An Irish Republic had been proclaimed by the parliament known as Dáil Éireann, formed by Sinn Féin MPs elected from Ireland in the United Kingdom general election in 1918.

The term was first used to describe those Irish parliamentarians who were elected at the 1918 general election, and who, rather than attending the British House of Commons in London, to which they had been elected, assembled instead in Dublin's Mansion House on 21 January 1919 to create a new Irish parliament: the First Dáil Éireann.

Between the Easter Rising of 1916 and the 1918 general election, Sinn Féin's popularity was increased dramatically by the execution of most of the leaders of the 1916 rebels, the party's reorganisation in 1917 and by its opposition to military conscription in Ireland ( see Conscription Crisis of 1918 ).

Prime Minister David Lloyd George failed to introduce Home Rule in 1918 and in the December 1918 General Election Sinn Féin won a majority of Irish seats.

One of the most famous of Lloyd George's intrigues was the withholding of reinforcements in the UK early in 1918 in order to limit Haig's ability to launch further offensives.

This left the British forces vulnerable to German attack, and after the German Spring Offensives Lloyd George misled the House of Commons in claiming that Haig's forces were stronger at the start of 1918 than they had been a year earlier-in fact the increase was in the number of Chinese, Indian and black South African labourers, and Haig had fewer infantry, holding a longer stretch of front.

Under Prime Minister David Lloyd George, however, from 1918 onwards, the powers of the office increased, as Lloyd George unilaterally claimed for himself powers that had previously belonged to the Cabinet collectively, including, most dramatically, the right to seek a parliamentary dissolution.

In 1915 Asquith was forced to shore up his government with a number of pro-suffrage Conservatives in a coalition government, and when Lloyd George took over from Asquith the following year it paved the way for the extension of the vote in 1918.

Asquith was also active in Parliament when Lloyd George, keen to refocus British efforts against Turkey rather than on the Western Front, removed Robertson as CIGS early in 1918.

The Liberal Party finally split openly during the Maurice Debate in 1918, at which Lloyd George was accused ( almost certainly correctly ) of hoarding manpower in the UK to prevent Haig from launching any fresh offensives ( e. g. Passchendaele, 1917 ), possibly with a view to sending more troops to Palestine or Italy instead, and thus contributing to Allied weakness during the temporarily successful German offensives of spring 1918, in which British casualties were actually heavier than in their own offensives the previous year.

By this time, Asquith had become very unpopular with the public ( as Lloyd George was perceived to have " won the war " by displacing him ) and, along with most leading Liberals, lost his seat in the 1918 elections, at which the Liberals split into Asquith and Lloyd George factions.

By 1918, Lloyd and Roach had begun to develop his character beyond an imitation of his contemporaries.

* Baby June ( June Havoc ) in the 1918 Harold Lloyd film, On the Jump

In 1918 he wrote in cooperation with George Ambrose Lloyd ( later The Lord Lloyd ) " The Great Opportunity " aiming to set an agenda for a revived Conservative Party separate from the Lloyd George coalition.

Following the victory of the Lloyd George coalition in the elections of 1918, Chamberlain was again appointed to the position of Chancellor of the Exchequer in January 1919 and immediately faced the huge task of restoring Britain ’ s finances after four disastrous years of wartime expenditure.

In the spring of 1918 French wrote Lloyd George a long letter complaining of how Haig had intrigued against him in 1915, including criticising him to his subordinates, and how Haig and Robertson had ( allegedly ) conspired to gain military supremacy over the civil power.

He again held political office during the First World War when he was Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries between 1917 and 1918 in David Lloyd George's coalition government.

* Jenkin Lloyd Jones ( 1843 – 1918 ), Unitarian minister and magazine editor

On 19 February 1918 Wilson was appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff (' CIGS '), after the removal of Robertson and was the principal military adviser to Lloyd George in the last year of the First World War.

He was convinced that the war would ultimately be won in the west, causing and Lloyd George to complain ( 30 July 1918 ) that it was “ Wully Redivivus ”.

In his War Memoirs ( pp1857-66 ) Lloyd George later poured scorn on Wilson for seeking the advice of Haig and Petain in this paper and for not having foreseen the Allied victories of autumn 1918, but neither Lloyd George nor many other people did at the time.