Year 1917

World War One Diary for Saturday, September 22, 1917: Sea War North Sea – Only British air kill of a U-boat: Royal Navy Air Service H12 America flying boat (Flt […]

World War One Diary for Friday, September 21, 1917: Western Front Ypres: British take 3,243 PaWs on September 20 and 21, repulse attacks on ‘Tower Hamlets’ ridge. Eastern Front Baltic

World War One Diary for Thursday, September 20, 1917: Western Front Ypres – Battle of the Menin Road Ridge (until September 25): Third Allied attack of ‘Third Ypres’, directed by

World War One Diary for Wednesday, September 19, 1917: Africa East Africa: Kilwa Force action at Mihambia (until September 20) costs 145 casualties and fails to cut off over 1,100

World War One Diary for Tuesday, September 18, 1917: Southern Fronts Italy: Cadorna cancels 12th Isonzo offensive and starts defensive preparations, tells Allies this on September 20 who halt guns

World War One Diary for Monday, September 17, 1917: Politics France: Churchill meets French Munitions Minister Loucheur in Paris, latter urges Allied Munitions Council. Home Fronts Britain: Bread subsidy with

World War One Diary for Sunday, September 16, 1917: Middle East Arabia: Lawrence leads 100 Arabs against Mudauwara Station on Hejaz Railway, blows up and captures Turk train (over 180

World War One Diary for Saturday, September 15, 1917: Western Front Flanders: British capture strongpoint north of Inverness Copse. Portuguese repulse attack at Neuve Chapelle. Aisne: Petain adopts plan for

World War One Diary for Friday, September 14, 1917: Home Fronts Russia: Kerensky proclaims Republic and Council of Five, but power really passing to Petrograd Soviet. USA: $2 billion naval

World War One Diary for Thursday, September 13, 1917: Eastern Front Germany: Hoffmann diary ‘A German advance on Petersburg now would bring about the complete collapse of Russia’. Galicia­: Germans

World War One Diary for Wednesday, September 12, 1917: Southern Fronts Italian Front: Italian losses since August 10 a record of 166,000 men (18,000 PoWs) so far. Austrians c.85,000 (29,000

World War One Diary for Tuesday, September 11, 1917: Air War Ypres: Legendary French ace Guynemer (54 victories) missing over Poelcapelle aged 22, first revealed in London (September 27) on

World War One Diary for Monday, September 10, 1917: Sea War North Sea: US Atlantic Fleet C-in-C Admiral Mayo visits Grand Fleet (since September 9). Mediterranean: German U-boats ordered not

World War One Diary for Sunday, September 9, 1917: Western Front France­: c.2,000 British troops mutiny at Etaples Infantry Base Depot (until September 14) due to poor conditions and Third

World War One Diary for Friday, September 7, 1917: Southern Fronts Albania: General Jacquemot’s mixed French division begins advance on Austrian-held Pogradec, having been joined by Essad Pasha’s 500 Albanians

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