Diary WWI

World War One Diary for Thursday, March 15, 1917: Politics Russia: TSAR ABDICATES. Miliukov new Russian Foreign Minister. Neutrals Switzerland: Lenin gets news of Revolution, envisages train journey through Germany […]

World War One Diary for Wednesday, March 14, 1917: Western Front Somme – MAIN GERMAN RETREAT TO THE HINDENBURG LINE begins (until April 5): German Second and First Armies involved.

World War One Diary for Tuesday, March 13, 1917: Western Front Britain: In London Haig and Nivelle sign clarifications of command spheres. Somme: British advance guard now 11 miles from

World War One Diary for Monday, March 12, 1917: Home Fronts Russia: FIRST RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (­until March 15). Whole 17,000 Petrograd garrison joins crowds. Temperature 0°F. Duma prorogued but forms

World War One Diary for Sunday, March 11, 1917: Middle East Mesopotamia: FALL OF BAGHDAD (population over 150,000). British troops enter before 0900 hours, find 600 sick and wounded Turkish

World War One Diary for Saturday, March 10, 1917: Sea War North Sea: Royal Navy submarine G13 sinks UC-43 off Shetlands. Eastern Atlantic: Epic action between NZ Shipping Co SS

World War One Diary for Friday, March 9, 1917: Air War Western Front: Richthofen (petrol tank and engine hit) leads fighters that shoot down 4 of 9 No 40 Squadron’s

World War One Diary for Thursday, March 8, 1917: Air War Germany: Dead of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, aged 79, pioneer of giant metal-framed rigid airships (civil and military) since

World War One Diary for Wednesday, March 7, 1917: Air War Occupied Belgium: New German Gotha bomber base of Scheldewindeke operational south of Ghent. Britain: 11 home air defence squadrons

World War One Diary for Tuesday, March 6, 1917: Air War Western Front: First DH4 fast, high-flying S/E bombers with first Constantinesco cc MG synchronizing gear (6,000 issued to December)

World War One Diary for Monday, March 5, 1917: Middle East Palestine: Kress evacuates Wadi Sheikh Nuran for Gaza-Beersheba line. Mesopotamia: Maude resumes advance; 13th Hussars’ charge foiled by second

World War One Diary for Sunday, March 4, 1917: Home Fronts Russia: Food riots in Petrograd (and on March 6 and 7), France: Tubercular Ex-Soldiers Flag Day. Britain: War Office

World War One Diary for Saturday, March 3, 1917: Western Front Somme: British advance east of Gommecourt (until March 5). Aisne­: German 51st Reserve Division raid south of Ripont and

World War One Diary for Friday, March 2, 1917: Middle East Persia: Russian general Baratov reoccupies Hamadan, Kangavar and Sehna (March 5). Politics Germany: Zimmermann tells press his telegram is

World War One Diary for Wednesday, February 28, 1917: Home Fronts Germany: Only 60,000 Auxiliary Service Law Volunteers (mainly women) instead of 200,000 hoped for. Russia: Duma member Kerensky calls

World War One Diary for Tuesday, February 27, 1917: Neutrals USA: John M Browning demonstrates his new short recoil, water-cooled machine-gun. President Wilson says Laconia sinking(from February 25, when four

World War One Diary for Monday, February 26, 1917: Air War Macedonia: 20 aircraft of KG 1 (transferred from Bucharest) surprise bomb French Gorgop airfield; 8 French aircraft destroyed, 4

World War One Diary for Sunday, February 25, 1917: Western Front France: Prime Minister Briand proposes that ‘In order to ensure unity of command on the Western Front, the French

World War One Diary for Saturday, February 24, 1917: Middle East Mesopotamia: Turks abandon Kut, retreat west on Baghdad losing 1,730 PoWs and 4 guns but British Cavalry Division fails