Diary WWI

World War One Diary for Saturday, January 4, 1919: Baltic States: 2 Royal Navy cruisers and 1 destroyer help Estonian Army smash Red Seventh Army. Estonia appeals arms from Britain […]

World War One Diary for Friday, January 3, 1919: Britain: Feisal-Weizmann Agreement in London (T E Lawrence present) welcomes Jewish settlement in Palestine. 19,000 soldiers protest at Folkestone over slow

World War One Diary for Thursday, January 2, 1919: Russia: Reds advance on Reval and Riga; Ukraine fighting; White offensive in Caucasus. Danube: Czechs fight Hungarians at Pressburg. Britain: Trenchard

World War One Diary for Wednesday, January 1, 1919: Russia­: According to its C-in-C Red Army has 600,000 rifles for 788,000 men; 8,000 MGs and 1,700 field guns in January.

World War One Diary for Tuesday, December 31, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: Vorwaerts publishes draft German constitution. Landsturm demobilized and dissolved. USA: War Industries and Railroad Board dissolved. Britain: 288,438

World War One Diary for Monday, December 30, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: German Communist Party founded. Eastern Front North Russia: Allies take Kadish. Siberia: Kolchak takes Birsk. Politics Britain: Wilson

World War One Diary for Sunday, December 29, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: Majority Socialist demo in Berlin vs Spartacists, but 3 Independ­ent Socialists leave Government. France: Liberated Districts Ministry formed.

World War One Diary for Saturday, December 28, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: 3 Commissars (USPD) resign but replaced by SPDs. BRITISH GENERAL ELEC­TION RESULTS: Government Coalition 478 seats (Tory 384;

World War One Diary for Friday, December 27, 1918: Eastern Front USSR: Lenin writes to Chicherin urging Berlin or Holland conference to found Third Communist International by February 1, 1919

World War One Diary for Thursday, December 26, 1918: Eastern Front Baltic States: 2 Royal Navy cruisers and 3 destroyers capture Red destroyers Spartak and Avrotil (until December 27) after

World War One Diary for Wednesday, December 25, 1918: Eastern Front Urals: General Pepelyayev’s White Siberian Corps of General Gadja’s Northern Army (Kolchak) captures and loots Perm (province capital and

World War One Diary for Tuesday, December 24, 1918: Middle East North Syria: 28th Indian Brigade (7th Division) occupies Killis and Aintab, north of Aleppo, and Baghdad Railway. Home Fronts

World War One Diary for Monday, December 23, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: Spartacists and Marines seize Berlin Chancery but Government troops eject with 29 killed until December 24. Western Front

World War One Diary for Sunday, December 22, 1918: Eastern Front Georgia: British brigade (from Salonika Army) lands at Batumi to link with Baku garrison as Armenian vs Georgian fighting

World War One Diary for Saturday, December 21, 1918: Home Fronts Czechoslovakia­: President Masaryk arrives in Prague (inaugurated December 22). Britain: Children’s sugar rations increased (manufactur­ers allowance doubled on December

World War One Diary for Friday, December 20, 1918: Eastern Front General Borius’ 1,800 French African troops (156th Colonial Division) land at Odessa. Petlura’s Ukrainians capture Kiev and end Skovopadski’s

World War One Diary for Thursday, December 19, 1918: Home Fronts Britain: Haig and his 5 army commanders return to London. Sir E Geddes made Coordinator for Army demobili­zation. Military

World War One Diary for Wednesday, December 18, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: Berlin Conference decides on Ebert Provisional Government pending National Assembly elections (fixed for January 19, 1919). Britain: Information

World War One Diary for Tuesday, December 17, 1918: Western Front British occupation of Cologne bridgehead and US occupation of Koblenz bridgehead completed, 40 Allied divisions deployed. Eastern Front Latvia

World War One Diary for Monday, December 16, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: Conference of Workers and Soldiers Councils at Berlin (until December 20), 450 deputies. Britain: Demobilization scheme for Army