Diary WWI

World War One Diary for Sunday, March 10, 1918: Western Front Britain: BEF GHQ Weekly Intelligence Summary: ‘… the imminence of the [German] offensive in the Arras-St Quentin area has […]

World War One Diary for Saturday, March 9, 1918: Air War Western Front: DH9 operational debut; controversial DH4 replacement aircraft of No 6 (Naval) Squadron attack St Pierre Capelle. 53

World War One Diary for Friday, March 8, 1918: Eastern Front USSR: Trotsky appointed People’s Commissar for War. Baltic: Duchy of Courland’s throne offered to Kaiser; Germans declare protectorate on

World War One Diary for Thursday, March 7, 1918: Air War Britain: 3 of 6 ‘Giant’ bombers sent attack London (63 casualties, 25 houses destroyed, night March 7-8) in moonless

World War One Diary for Wednesday, March 6, 1918: Middle East Arabia: Turks (including 703rd German battalion) retake Tafila from Zeid and drive him on to Shobek on March 7,

World War One Diary for Tuesday, March 5, 1918: Eastern Front RUMANIAN-CENTRAL POWERS PRELIM PEACE (signed at Buftea on May 7): Dobruja ceded; Hungarian frontier to be ‘rectified’; 8 divisions

World War One Diary for Monday, March 4, 1918: Air War Western Front: US 94th Aero (Pursuit) Squadron arrives (flies first US recon petrol over German lines on march 19),

World War One Diary for Sunday, March 3, 1918: Eastern Front RUSSO-GERMAN PEACE OF BREST-LlTOVSK: Russia renounces Baltic States, Poland, Belorussia, Finland and three Armenian districts to Turkey; 630,000 Austrian

World War One Diary for Saturday, March 2, 1918: Sea War Baltic: German landings in Aaland islands, 900 Jaegers transported from Danzig. Eastern Front USSR: Trotzky orders old Russian Army‘s

World War One Diary for Friday, March 1, 1918: Western Front France: In March French Army receives first Renault FT-17 light tanks. Britain: BEF strength 1,886,073 (including 293,264 Empire troops)

World War One Diary for Thursday, February 28, 1918: Sea War Allied and neutral shipping losses to U­-boats during February: 115 ships (68 British with 697 lives) worth 318,174t (British

World War One Diary for Wednesday, February 27, 1918: Western Front Germany: Ludendorff and Kaiser first see the A7V German tank (crew on February 16) and captured British Mk IV

World War One Diary for Monday, February 26, 1918: Eastern Front Soviet delegates return to Brest-Litovsk. Major-General Count Goltz put in command of 12th Landwehr or Baltic Division for projected

World War One Diary for Monday, February 25, 1918: Eastern Front Estonia: Seckendorff’s Northern Corps takes Pernau, Reval with 626 guns, and Pskov. Ukraine: Linsingen reaches Zhitomir. Poland: Polish­-German Military

World War One Diary for Sunday, February 24, 1918: Eastern Front USSR: Soviets accept German peace terms after Central Executive Committee of Bolshevik Party votes 116-85 for Lenin after he

World War One Diary for Saturday, February 23, 1918: Air War Mesopotamia: 3-10 Royal Flying Corps aircraft bomb Turk camps and airfield in Hit area (until February 27) forcing German

World War One Diary for Friday, February 22, 1918: Western Front Flanders: German trench raid on Ypres-Staden line. Africa Mozambique: Hawthorn NRFF column fights Captain Goering’s 5 coys at Mtende

World War One Diary for Thursday, February 21, 1918: Western Front France: Patton writes from Langres ‘… I get requests … to transfer into tanks nearly daily’. Eastern Front USSR:

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, February 20, 1943: Eastern Front Southern Sector: Manstein’s Panzers counter-attack in Pavlograd Sector. Africa Tunisia: British 8th Army takes Medenine in the East. Air War

World War One Diary for Wednesday, February 20, 1918: Eastern Front Germans march into Minsk and Hapsal (Estonia, via Gulf of Riga ice), have now taken over 1,500 guns and