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

Sep 01 US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920

Sep 02 Capt. Bellenden S. Hutcheson (cdn. Army Medical Corp.) wins the Victoria Cross at Drocourt-Quèant, France

Sep 30 Prv. James Crichton, 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment, won the Victoria Cross at Crevecoeur, France

Sep 02 Prv. John Francis Young (87th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Arras, France

Sep 02 Australians attack and seize Mont St Quentin, France

Sep 26 Meuse-Argonne offensive against Germany began during WW I

Sep 02 Sgt. Arthur G. Knight (10th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Villers-lez-Cagnicourt, France

Sep 27 Lt. George Fraser Kerr (3rd Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Bourlon Wood, France

Sep 30 Lance Corporal E A Corey, a stretcher bearer with the 55th Battalion, wins a third bar to his Military Medal, first won on 15may1917 The winning of four Military Medals is a unique feat in the Australian Army or any other Commonwealth service

Jun 03 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional

Jun 28 The first flight between Hawaiian Islands

Jun 15 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania

Jun 08 Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered

Jun 06 Battle of Belleau Wood, first US victory of WW I

Jun 12 The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France

Jun 04 M Wolf discovers asteroid #894 Erda

Jun 22 Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe Illinois)

Jun 15 50th running of Belmont Stakes (Johren wins)

Dec 13 US army of occupation crosses the Rhine, enters Germany

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