Aug 27 Lt-Colonel William H. CLark-Kennedy (24th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Fresnes-Rouvroy, France

Aug 09 Lt. Jean Brillant (22nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

Aug 09 Sgt. Raphael Louis Zengel (5th Cdn. infanctry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

Aug 09 Cpl. Joseph Kaeble (22nd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

Aug 20 Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I

Aug 09 Cpl. Frederick G. Coppins (8th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

Aug 17 Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000

Aug 25 The birth of Leonard Bernstein, Composer and conductor

Aug 12 Sgt. Robert Spall Prices Patricia's Cdn. Light Infantry) wins the Victoria Cross at Parvillers, France

Aug 26 Lt. Charles S. Rutherford (5th Cdn. Infranty Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Monchy-le-Preux, France

Aug 08 Battle for Amiens begins

Aug 08 Prv. John B. Cook (13th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

Aug 24 Sgt. Samuel Forsyth, NZ Engineers, attached to 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Grevillers, France

Aug 11 Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans

Aug 08 Cpl. Herman J. Good (13th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Amiens, France

Aug 27 Dr Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia

Sep 03 5 soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot of 1917

Sep 29 Capt. John McGregor (2nd Cdn. Mounted Rifles) wins the Victoria Cross at Cambrai, France

Sep 01 Prv. Claude J. P. Nunney (38th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Drocourt-Quèant, France

Sep 01 Sgt. John Gilroy Grant, 1st Battalion, Wellington Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Bancourt France

Sep 02 Lance-Cpl. William H. Metcalf (16th Cdn. Infantry Corp.) wins the Victoria Cross at Arras, France

Sep 02 Prv. Walter Leigh Rayfield (7th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Arras, France

Sep 01 SS City of Glasgow, a Ellerman Lines ship of 6457 grt and built in 1906, she was torpedoed by German submarine UB118 21 miles east of Tuskar Rock in St George's Channel whilst en-route from Manchester to Montreal in ballast. 12 of the crew were lost.

Sep 27 Lt. Samuel L. Honey (78th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Bourlon Wood, France

Sep 28 Lt. Milton Fowler Gregg (Royal Canadian Regiment) wins the Victoria Cross at Cambrai, France

Sep 02 Lt.-Colonel Cyrus Wesley Peck (16th Cdn. Infantry Corp.) wins the Victoria Cross at Arras, France

Sep 18 Australians attack on the Hindenburg Line

Sep 27 Lt. Graham T. Lyall (102 Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Bourlon Wood, France

Sep 01 Baseball season ends due to WW I

Sep 29 Australians storm the Hindenburg Line, France

Sep 29 Captain GH Wilkins, official AIF photographer, rallies United States troops at the battle of the Hindenburg Line, while taking photographs For this action he is awarded a bar to his Military Cross, becoming the only Australian official photographer to be decorated for bravery in the field

Sep 29 Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line

Sep 12 During WW I, US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St Mihiel

Sep 04 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months

Sep 12 Sgt. Henry John Laurent, 3rd NZ (Rifle) Brigade, won the Victoria Cross at Gouzeacourt Wood France

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