08-1916

Diary for Friday, August 18, 1916: Sea War North Sea: Whole High Seas Fleet puts to sea (until August 19) for penultimate time until April 1918 with aim of shelling […]

Diary for Thursday, August 17, 1916: Home Fronts Germany: Meat ration fixed. Western Front Battle of the Somme: British capture trench northwest of Bazentin. German counter-attack held northwest of Pozieres.

Diary for Wednesday, August 16, 1916: Air War Somme: Second Lieutenant Ball in Nieuport 17 attacks 5 Rolands, forcing 2 down, destroys 2 more on August 22 in 11 Squadron

Diary for Tuesday, August 15, 1916: Eastern Front Brusilov offensive: Brusilov has received 26 extra divisions since June 12 (but Austro­-Germans 33 1/2, including 23 German). Galicia: Lechitski reaches Solotwina

Diary for Monday, August 14, 1916: Southern Fronts Isonzo: General Italian attack all along line (until August 17) without appreciable gains but heavy losses. Eastern Front Germany; Hoffmann diary: ‘Continual

Diary for Sunday, August 13, 1916: Western Front Battle of the Somme: British 15th Division captures Munster Alley. Artillery duels north and south of the river on August 14. Eastern

Diary for Saturday, August 12, 1916: Western Front France: Joffre (with Foch) and Haig confer at Beauquesne. Haig proposes prelim combined attack from the Somme to High Wood on August

Diary for Friday, August 11, 1916: Southern Fronts Salonika: Italian 35th Division (11,000 men) and 32 guns lands (until August 25), relieves French 57th Division by August 27. General Cordonnier

Diary for Thursday, August 10, 1916: Western Front Battle of the Somme: King George visits the front (until August 15), tells Rawlinson of a ‘cabal’ (including Lord French, Churchill and

Diary for Wednesday, August 9, 1916: Southern Fronts Salonika – Local Allied offensive: Allies shell Bulgar line south of lake Doiran, French 17th Colonial Division (15,000) occupies abandoned station and

Diary for Tuesday, August 8, 1916: Eastern Front Brusilov offensive, Pripet: Russian Guard and Third Armies attack towards Kovel, make no gains (until August 9). Guard losses 55,292 men; July