08-1917

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

World War One Diary for Friday, August 17, 1917: Air War Germany: Kaiser decides Navy will be limited to 25 Zeppelins and only build replacements every 2 months instead of

World War One Diary for Thursday, August 16, 1917: Home Fronts Germany: OHL remove General Groener from War Office (to 33rd Division at Verdun), General Scheuch succeeds, but put under

World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 15, 1917: Politics Britain: US troops pass through London. War Cabinet decides to send 8 guns to Russia (none sent since March and

World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 14, 1917: Eastern Front Rumania: German Alpenkorps storms Height 334 as Russian VIII Corps flees. Sea War Germany: Scheer writes to Navy Minister

World War One Diary for Monday, August 13, 1917: Western Front Verdun: French 2,400-gun bombardment begins (including 1,100 heavy gun) on 12 1/2-mile front until August 20. German artillery fire

World War One Diary for Sunday, August 12, 1917: Home Fronts Russia: Ex-Tsar with family moved to Abalak Monastery, Tobolsk, Siberia. Sea War North Sea: Destroyer HMS Oracle rams and