Year 1918

World War One Diary for (day), (Datum): Western Front BATTLE OF THE MATZ ENDS: French defensive victory. First extensive use of mustard gas by Allies (French) causes 265 casualties. Foch […]

World War One Diary for Thursday, June 13, 1918: Southern Fronts Italian Front: Preliminary Austrian diversionary attack by 2 divisions (‘Avalanche Action’) in Tonale Pass (Trentino, west of Lake Garda)

World War One Diary for Wednesday, June 12, 1918: Western Front Aisne: German Seventh Army attacks with 5 divisions west of Soissons (until June 13) but gains minimal against French

World War One Diary for Tuesday, June 11, 1918: Western Front Noyoni-Montdidier: Mangin’s 4 divisions and US 2nd and 3rd Division launch flank counter­-attack at 1130 hours without prelim shelling

World War One Diary for Monday, June 10, 1918: Sea War Adriatic: 2 Italian MAS boats attack and MAS 15 (Rizzo) capsizes and sinks Austrian battleship Szent Istvan (89 die)

World War One Diary for Sunday, June 9, 1918: Western Front (FOURTH) GERMAN GNEISENAU OFFENSIVE VS FRENCH ON RIVER MATZ (until June 14) between Noyon and Montdidier (also known as

World War One Diary for Saturday, June 8, 1918: Sea War Britain: US Ambassador’s wife launches 26,000t carrier HMS Eagle (ex-Chilean dreadnought Almirante Cochrane redesigned by end 1917 as first

World War One Diary for Friday, June 7, 1918: Eastern Front USSR: First Congress of Red Military Commissars. Northern Russia: 250 Royal Marines land at Kern on White Sea. Lenin

World War One Diary for Thursday, June 6, 1918: Western Front Marne – Battle of Belleau Wood (until June 25): US 2nd Division and 4th US Marine Brigade counter-attack west

World War One Diary for Wednesday, June 5, 1918: Air War France: Independent Force formed (officially on June 6) under Trenchard begins operations from Nancy. Organized as 8th Brigade RAF,

World War One Diary for Tuesday, June 4, 1918: Home Fronts France: Clemenceau to Chamber ‘I shall fight before Paris … in Paris … behind Paris.’, wins vote 337-110. Britain:

World War One Diary for Monday, June 3, 1918: Western Front Churchill visits BEF GHQ, Paris and Front until June 13. Fierce fighting between Soissons and Noyon. French retake Choisy

World War One Diary for Sunday, June 2, 1918: Air War Western Front: Oberleutnant Goering awarded Pour le Merite. Germans claim 38 Allied aircraft for loss of 17. Western Front

World War One Diary for Saturday, June 1, 1918: Western Front Marne: Germans held between the Oise and Marne (US 3rd Division MG battalion in action, with 5 more divisions

World War One Diary for Friday, May 31, 1918: Western Front Battlefield debut of French Renault FT-17 light tank: 30 (3 lost) in Retz Forest helps stem German advance as

World War One Diary for Thursday, May 30, 1918: Southern Fronts Macedonia – Combat of Skra di Legen: At 0455 hours Greek Crete and Archipelago divisions (2,659 casualties) storm fortified

World War One Diary for Wednesday, May 29, 1918: Western Front Marne­: GERMANS CAPTURE SOISSONS, Fere-en­-Tardenois, Vregny plateau and heights south of the Vesle, cross river Ourcq French forced off

World War One Diary for Tuesday, May 28, 1918: Western Front Somme – Battle of Cantigny: First AEF offensive operation, by US 28th Infantry Regiment (3,874 men; 823 casualties), 1st

World War One Diary for Monday, May 27, 1918: Western Front Aisne – THIRD BATTLE OF THE AISNE (until June 6): German Bluecher and Yorck Offensives against Anglo-French on Chemin

World War One Diary for Sunday, May 26, 1918: Sea War North Sea: US Mine Squadron 1 (Captain Reg Belkap’s 19 minelayers with 5,530 mines) arrives at Invergordon to help