Year 1918

World War One Diary for Sunday, May 5, 1918: Western Front Artillery duels and widespread skirmishing. France: Foch orders army commanders and higher not to yield ground for defence in […]

World War One Diary for Saturday, May 4, 1918: Western Front Flanders: Allied positions in Locre and south of Ypres sectors heavily shelled. Eastern Front Austria: Officials seize German food

World War One Diary for Friday, May 3, 1918: Air War Germany: DH4s of No 55 Squadron seriously damage goods statin rail tracks and rolling stock at Thionville. Western Front­:

World War One Diary for Thursday, May 2, 1918: Eastern Front Don: Cossacks cable Kaiser for help against Bolsheviks. Finland: Red Western Army collapses, 20,000 PoWs; 50 guns and 200

World War One Diary for Wednesday, May 1, 1918: Home Fronts Britain: RFP 107% (March level). New War Pensions Warrant issued. Anglo­-Australian zinc agreement for 250,000t per year for duration

World War One Diary for Tuesday, April 30, 1918: Air War Western Front: 180 German triplanes available. Allied April losses 232 aircraft and 16 balloons to Germans’ 136 aircraft. Britain:

World War One Diary for Monday, April 29, 1918: Air War Western Front: First of Rickenbacker’s 26 victories; an Albatros fighter at Baussant. German aircraft losses since March 21 are

World War One Diary for Sunday, April 28, 1918: Home Fronts Austria: Death of Gavrilo Princip (the assassin of Sarajevo 1914), age 22, in hospital of tuberculosis, Theresienstadt. Western Front

World War One Diary for Saturday, April 27, 1918: Western Front France: First contingent of Italian II Corps arrives. Eastern Front USSR: Soviet Central Executive Committee abolishes rights of inheritance.

World War One Diary for Friday, April 26, 1918: Middle East Mesopotamia: General Egerton’s 10,500 men (5 columns) wrest Kifri-Tuz Khurmatli from 3,000 Turks (until April 29); 6th Indian Cavalry

World War One Diary for Thursday, April 25, 1918: Home Fronts Britain: Churchill reviews munitions work for Commons; losses since March 21 more than made good; 750,000 women working, doing

World War One Diary for Wednesday, April 24, 1918: Western Front Somme: 2 German divisions with 13 tanks (2 lost) capture Villers­-Bretonneux (over 390 PoWs) and threaten Allied junction in

World War One Diary for Tuesday, April 23, 1918: Sea War North Sea: LAST GERMAN HIGH SEAS FLEET SORTIE (until April 24). Vain bid from 0500 hours, initially undetected (Scheer

World War One Diary for Monday, April 22, 1918: Sea War Νorth Sea – Zeebrugge Raid: St George’s Day Raid by British Dover Patrol 3 old cruiser blockships; 9 monitors;

World War One Diary for Sunday, April 21, 1918: Air War Western Front: RICHTHOFEN (the ‘Red Baron’) KILLED over Somme (aged 25). His blood­red Fokker Dr Ι Triplane shot down

World War One Diary for Saturday, April 20, 1918: Eastern Front Finland: Mannerheim attacks towards Viborg with 24,000 men and 40 guns (until April 29). Western Front Flanders: German gas

World War One Diary for Friday, April 19, 1918: Western Front Flanders: Lull in fighting; minor actions (until April 24). General de Mitry assumes command of French Νorthern Army Detachment

World War One Diary for Thursday, April 18, 1918: Home Fronts Britain: THIRD MILITARY SERVICE ACT becomes law, lowers age to 17 1/2 and raises it to 50, eyesight criteria

World War One Diary for Tuesday, April 16, 1918: Western Front Flanders: Passchendaele reoccupied by German Fourth Army. Wytschaete and Meteren (with record c.1,000 ΝΖ PoWs) lost and retaken by

World War One Diary for Monday, April 15, 1918: Western Front Flanders: Alpenkorps together with 2 other divisions capture Bailleul and Wulverghem. Plumer evacuates 5 divisons from Passchendaele Ridge. Robillot’s