Diary WWI

World War One Diary for Tuesday, May 14, 1918: Eastern Front Siberia: Czech 1st Division first clashes with Bolsheviks at Chelyabinsk (east of the Urals) and seizes the town. USSR: […]

World War One Diary for Monday, May 13, 1918: Sea War Adriatic: Italian tracked naval torpedo motorboat (like a ‘tank’) Grillo (foiled May 6-7) crawls into Pola harbour, is discovered

World War One Diary for Sunday, May 12, 1918: Air War Western Front: Mannock’s SE5a flight of No 74 Squadron destroy 6 of 8 German fighters encountered, Mannock scores over

World War One Diary for Saturday, May 11, 1918: Sea War Eastern Atlantic: Royal Navy submarine E35 torpedoes and sinks U-154, 150 miles off Cape St Vincent. Middle East Hejaz

World War One Diary for Friday, May 10, 1918: Sea War North Sea: British blocking attack on Ostend (49 casualties, 3 Victoria Cross) night May 9-10; war-weary cruiser Vindictive (laden

World War One Diary for Thursday, May 9, 1918: Air War Western Front: French ace Fonck in 5min 50sec (in Spad) destroys 6 German aircraft (again on September 26) over

World War One Diary for Wednesday, May 8, 1918: Air War Britain: Trenchard accepts command of Independent Air Force for bombing Germany. Salonika: 6 RAF aircraft drop 4,500lb bombs (in

World War One Diary for Tuesday, May 7, 1918: Eastern Front PEACE OF BUCHAREST BETWEEN RUMANIA AND CENTRAL POWERS: Bulgaria gets all land lost in 1913, Central Powers to control

World War One Diary for Monday, May 6, 1918: Southern Fronts Salonika: British coy trench raid (81 casualties) west of Lake Doiran uses body shields, blows up pillbox (night May

World War One Diary for Sunday, May 5, 1918: Western Front Artillery duels and widespread skirmishing. France: Foch orders army commanders and higher not to yield ground for defence in

World War One Diary for Saturday, May 4, 1918: Western Front Flanders: Allied positions in Locre and south of Ypres sectors heavily shelled. Eastern Front Austria: Officials seize German food

World War One Diary for Friday, May 3, 1918: Air War Germany: DH4s of No 55 Squadron seriously damage goods statin rail tracks and rolling stock at Thionville. Western Front­:

World War One Diary for Thursday, May 2, 1918: Eastern Front Don: Cossacks cable Kaiser for help against Bolsheviks. Finland: Red Western Army collapses, 20,000 PoWs; 50 guns and 200

World War One Diary for Wednesday, May 1, 1918: Home Fronts Britain: RFP 107% (March level). New War Pensions Warrant issued. Anglo­-Australian zinc agreement for 250,000t per year for duration

World War One Diary for Tuesday, April 30, 1918: Air War Western Front: 180 German triplanes available. Allied April losses 232 aircraft and 16 balloons to Germans’ 136 aircraft. Britain:

World War One Diary for Monday, April 29, 1918: Air War Western Front: First of Rickenbacker’s 26 victories; an Albatros fighter at Baussant. German aircraft losses since March 21 are

World War One Diary for Sunday, April 28, 1918: Home Fronts Austria: Death of Gavrilo Princip (the assassin of Sarajevo 1914), age 22, in hospital of tuberculosis, Theresienstadt. Western Front

World War One Diary for Saturday, April 27, 1918: Western Front France: First contingent of Italian II Corps arrives. Eastern Front USSR: Soviet Central Executive Committee abolishes rights of inheritance.

World War One Diary for Friday, April 26, 1918: Middle East Mesopotamia: General Egerton’s 10,500 men (5 columns) wrest Kifri-Tuz Khurmatli from 3,000 Turks (until April 29); 6th Indian Cavalry

World War One Diary for Thursday, April 25, 1918: Home Fronts Britain: Churchill reviews munitions work for Commons; losses since March 21 more than made good; 750,000 women working, doing