Diary WWI

World War One Diary for Thursday, September 6, 1917: Air War Western Front: 6 Squadrons of newish German Halberstadt CLII ground-attack aircraft decimate British division reserves crossing Somme bridges. Eastern […]

World War One Diary for Wednesday, September 5, 1917: Home Fronts Russia: Grand Dukes Michael and Paul arrested. USA: Federal agents raid IWW offices in 23 cities (168 arrests). 687,000

World War One Diary for Monday, September 3, 1917: Eastern Front Baltic Provinces: German 2nd Guard and 1st Reserve divisions enter Riga, claim many thousand PoWs and 150 guns, but

World War One Diary for Sunday, September 2, 1917: Air War Adriatic: Pola bombed by 148 Caproni bombers and 11 flying boats; Austrians bomb Venice (September 7) which has balloon

World War One Diary for Saturday, September 1, 1917: Eastern Front Baltic Provinces: HUTIER’S GERMAN RIGA OFFENSIVE (until September 5) begins with 2-hour Bruchmueller gas shelling (116,400 gas shells inflict

World War One Diary for Friday, August 31, 1917: Sea War North Sea: Royal Navy Air Service raids Belgian coast airfields. Allied and neutral August shipping losses to U-boats, 186

World War One Diary for Thursday, August 30, 1917: Air War France: Government agrees to supply US with 5,000 aircraft and 8,500 engines (Spad and Breguet). Western Front Artois: British

World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 29, 1917: Southern Front Isonzo: Cadorna orders Bainsizza operations suspended except for blow north and east of Gorizia. Italian Front: General Waldstatten submits

World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 28, 1917: Eastern Front Russia: CoS Kornilov appeals at Moscow National Conference for restoration of Army’s discipline and supply. Kerensky tells General Barter

World War One Diary for Monday, August 27, 1917: Southern Fronts Salonika: British artillery shelling until August 30 and small raids on Lake Doiran sector. Home Fronts Turkey: ‘Armenian Conspiracies’

World War One Diary for Sunday, August 26, 1917: Western Front Ypres: 4 British divisions and 12 tanks fight north of St Julien; sea of mud restricts progress to 2,000

World War One Diary for Saturday, August 25, 1917: Home Fronts Russia: Kerensky opens Moscow National Conference (­until August 29), Bolsheviks boycott. Western Front Ypres: Second phase of Third Ypres

World War One Diary for Friday, August 24, 1917: Western Front Verdun: French advance 1 1/2 miles on 2,000-yards front taking Hill 304 and Camard Wood and reach south bank

World War One Diary for Thursday, August 23, 1917: Southern Fronts Isonzo­: Italians take 5 mountain peaks on 12 1/2 mile front as Austrian fires and demolitions signal their retreat

World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 22, 1917: Western Front Ypres: 4 British divisions with 16 tanks engaged before St Julien, 2 more with 18 tanks south of Fortuin

World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 21, 1917: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Bersaglieri storm Ossoinica and Osedrih (lost). Tortona Brigade takes Mt Kuk (2,004 ft); Mt Jelinek taken from 3

World War One Diary for Monday, August 20, 1917: Western Front Ypres: Since July 31, 17 German divisions ‘used up’ according to General Kuhl, CoS to Rupprecht. British attack profitably

World War One Diary for Sunday, August 19, 1917: Western Front Ypres: Slight advance by British troops on Ypres-Poelcapelle road in which 12 tanks (1 ditched) capture pillboxes at St

World War One Diary for Saturday, August 18, 1917: Southern Fronts Italian Front – ELEVENTH BATTLE OF THE ISONZO (the Bainsizza, until September 12): After barrage from 0600 hours Italian