Diary WWI

World War One Diary for Sunday, November 11, 1917: Southern Fronts Piave: FIRST BATTLE OF THE PIAVE (until December 30). Austrians gain small bridge­head at Zenson (night November 12-13) 17 […]

World War One Diary for Saturday, November 10, 1917: Western Front Flanders – Second Battle of Passchendaele ends: 1st Canadian Division (1,094 casualties) advances 500 yards north along main ridge

World War One Diary for Friday, November 9, 1917: Eastern Front Russia: 4 million copies of Bolshevik Peace Decree sent to Front. Kerensky occupies Gatchina (28 miles south of capital)

World War One Diary for Thursday, November 8, 1917: Eastern Front Russia – BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION: Red Guards overrun Winter Palace at 0100 hours. c.1,800 Red sailors arrive by train from

World War One Diary for Wednesday, November 7, 1917: Eastern Front Petrograd: Kerensky leaves by car to find loyal troops, other ministers in Winter Palace with 1,000 troops surrounded by

World War One Diary for Tuesday, November 6, 1917: Middle East Palestine: 17,000-strong XX Corps (1,300 casualties) storms central Turk Sheria position (c.4,000 men + c.40 guns) without prelim barrage,

World War One Diary for Monday, November 5, 1917: Southern Fronts Italian Front: At Rapallo conference Italians ask for 15 Allied divisions, but settle for 11. Temporary British C-in-C Italy

World War One Diary for Saturday, November 4, 1917: Southern Fronts Italian Front: Austrians take 10,000 PoWs and 24 guns cut off south of Tolmezzo from Italian XII Corps (Tassoni)

World War One Diary for Saturday, Npvember 3, 1917: Western Front France: First 3 AEF US troops killed and 11 made PoWs in German storm coy trench raid. Aisne: French

World War One Diary for Friday, November 2, 1917: Middle East Palestine: 6 Turk battalions compel Newcombe’s surrender. Turk Seventh Army counter-attacks DMC 10 miles north of Beersheba until November

World War One Diary for Thuersday, November 1, 1917: Southern Fronts Italian Front: Italians hold river Tagliamento (up to 3,000y yards wide) line until November 2 to allow time for

World War One Diary for Wednesday, October 31, 1917: Middle East Palestine – THIRD BATTLE OF GAZA (until November 7): after 24-30 mile march, DMC (11,000 men and 28 guns)

World War One Diary for Tuesday, October 30, 1917: Southern Fronts Italy: Foch visits Cadorna’s new Treviso headquarter and tells him ‘You’ve lost only one army, fight hard with the

World War One Diary for Monday, October 29, 1917: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Below orders Tagliamento bridges’ seizure; Italians blow Codroipo bridges prematurely leaving 12,000 men on wrong side, but XXIV

World War One Diary for Sunday, October 28, 1917: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Despite rain and snowstorms German 200th Division crosses river Torre at 0400 hours and occupies Udine 20 hours

World War One Diary for Saturday, October 27, 1917: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Cadorna orders general retreat at 0230 hours, already widely happening on jammed roads. German Alpenkorps and 2 other

World War One Diary for Friday, October 26, 1917: Western Front Flanders – SECOND BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE (until November 10): ‘The enemy charged like a wild bull against the iron

World War One Diary for Thursday, October 25, 1917: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Austro-German pincers close behind Mt Nero. Lieutenant Rommel’s Wurttemberg Mountain Battalion from Alpenkorps seizes Mts Kuk and Cragonza

World War One Diary for Wednesday, October 24, 1917: Southern Fronts Italian Front: BATTLE OF CAPORETTO (TWELFTH ISONZO, until November 9) begins on misty, rainy day with 0200 hours hurricane

World War One Diary for Tuesday, October 23, 1917: Western Front Germany – OHL appreciation: ‘The guiding principle of our general military situation remains … that the decision lies in