Diary WWI

World War One Diary for Saturday, September 7, 1918: Eastern Front USSR: Lenin cables Trotsky ‘Recovery proceeding excellently’. First £12.5 million of war indemnity sent from Moscow. Germans receive at […]

World War One Diary for Friday, September 6, 1918: Western Front Flanders: GERMAN EVACUATION OF LYS SALIENT COMPLETE. At OHL Conference Hindenburg stresses gravity of situation; Boehn recommends 45-mile retirement

World War One Diary for Thursday, September 5, 1918: Western Front Somme: French Third Army (Humbert) advances on St Quentin from Noyon, retakes Ham on September 6, fights across Crozat

World War One Diary for Wednesday, September 4, 1918: Southern Fronts Britain: Lloyd George approves Macedonia offensive after Guillaumat visits London, latter then visits Rome who approve on September 10.

World War One Diary for Tuesday, September 3, 1918: Western Front France: FOCH GENERAL ORDER SPECIFIES UNREMITTING ATTACKS ALL ALONG THE LINE. Germany: Ludendorff secret order deplores defeatist talk by

World War One Diary for Monday, September 2, 1918: Western Front Artois: CANADIANS STORM DROCOURT-QUEANT ‘SWITCH LINE’ (Wotan sector of Hindenburg Line) in 4 hours from 0500 hours: 1st and

World War One Diary for Sunday, September 1, 1918: Western Front Britain: BEF peak 1918 estimated strength of 1,916,464 soldiers (record 163,635 Canadians). Somme: British 52nd and 57th Divisions finally

World War One Diary for Saturday, August 31, 1918: Western Front Flanders: Germans evacuate Mt Kemmel. Cambrai: 3 German tanks attack British lines near Bapaume but repulsed by artillery fire;

World War One Diary for Friday, August 30, 1918: Middle East Trans-Jordan: First 600 supply camels begin 300-mile march to Azrak. Western Front AEF now holds 90 miles of front

World War One Diary for Thursday, August 29, 1918: Western Front GERMANS BEGIN EVACUA­TION OF FLANDERS: Sniper kills British war poet Lt H L Simpson at Hazebrouck. CIGS telegram warns

World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 28, 1918: Western Front GENERAL GERMAN RETREAT FROM THE SCARPE TO ABOVE R AISNE. Somme: Chaulnes reoccupied by French. Crown Prince William Special

World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 27, 1918: Western Front Somme: British III Corps recaptures Delville and Trones Woods and Greenland Hill. French recapture Roye and Chauny (Oise). Eastern

World War One Diary for Monday, August 26, 1918: Western Front Somme: GERMAN 10-MILE RETIREMENT on 55-mile line south to north of Noyon-east of Peronne-­Bapaume-Lens (night August 26-27). Ludendorff overrules

World War One Diary for Sunday, August 25, 1918: Western Front Somme: British troops now again hold Albert-Bapaume road, Mametz Wood, 2nd Division recaptures Behagnies and Sapignies, north of Bapaume.

World War One Diary for Saturday, August 24, 1918: Western Front Somme: British 38th Division recaptures Thiepval Ridge and reaches Bapaume outskirts. British 99th Brigade (2nd Division) captures Mory Copse.

World War One Diary for Friday, August 23, 1918: Western Front Somme: Main attack by BEF Third and Fourth Armies now on 33-mile front supported by 100 tanks, former advances

World War One Diary for Thursday, August 22, 1918: Southern Fronts Albania: Last Central Powers’ military success in full swing, regaining Devoli and Semeni river lines. Western Front Britain: Haig

World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 21, 1918: France: ALLIED OFFENSIVE RENEWED (until September 3). Haig tells Churchill chances of 1918 victory good. Somme: ­SECOND BATTLE OF ALBERT (until

World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 20, 1918: Southern Fronts Albania – Austrian counter­-offensive (until August 26): Colonel-General Pflanzer-Baltin flown in to command XIX Corps including fresh 45th Division

World War One Diary for Monday, August 19, 1918: Western Front Aisne: French troops capture Le Hamel. Somme: French First Army takes over Canadian Corps line; latter transferred to British