Year 1918

World War One Diary for Friday, January 25, 1918: Southern Fronts Piave: British 5th Division relieves Italian VIII Corps (until January 27). Eastern Front German Suedarmee disbanded. Rumanians fight Reds […]

World War One Diary for Thursday, January 24, 1918: Middle East Mesopotamia: Turk air raids on Baghdad cause slight damage (until January 25). Arabia: Fakhri Bey’s 1,000 troops from Amman

World War One Diary for Wednesday, January 23, 1918: Southern Fronts Italian Front: Below’s German Fourteenth Army headquarter closes. Eastern Front Brest-Litovsk: Trotsky suspends talks calling German policy ‘a most

World War One Diary for Tuesday, January 22, 1918: Eastern Front Austria: Czernin back in Vienna asks permission to make separate peace if necessary, Austria has only two months grain.

World War One Diary for Monday, Jnauary 21, 1918: Western Front Germany: LUDENDORFF MAKES FINAL DECISION TO LAUNCH GREAT SPRING OFFENSIVE. D-Day to be March 14. Lorraine: US 1st Division

World War One Diary for Sunday, January 20, 1918: Sea War Aegean – Action off Imbros: Battlecruiser Goeben and light cruiser Breslau (Vice-Admiral Rebeur-Paschwitz) sortie against British monitors near Dardanelles,

World War One Diary for Saturday, January 19, 1918: Home Fronts Hungary: 86th Infantry Regiment mutinies at Szabadka, 2 other regiments likewise (February 11 and 14).

World War One Diary for Friday, January 18, 1918: Eastern Front Brest-Litovsk: Trotsky breaks off talks, envoys leave to confer at home on January 20. Finland: Mannerheim, Army C-in-C since

World War One Diary for Thursday, January 17, 1918: Home Fronts Austria: Emperor Charles cables Czernin ‘If peace is not made at Brest-Litovks it will be revolution here, no matter

World War One Diary for Wednesday, January 16, 1918: Home Fronts Austria: General strikes until January 21 over daily bread ration cut (7 1/2 oz to under 6oz) and Brest­-Litovsk

World War One Diary for Tuesday, January 15, 1918: Western Front Lorraine: US I Corps formed (General Hunter Liggett) at Neuf Chateau – 1st, 2nd, 26th and 42nd US Divisions.

World War One Diary for Monday, January 14, 1918: Eastern Front Russia: Lenin receives diplomatic corps, speaks at departure of ‘first volunteers of the Socialist army’ and escapes shots fired

World War One Diary for Sunday, January 13, 1918: Eastern Front Russia: Reds imprison Rumanian Ambassador Diamandi (released January 15 after diplomatic corps protest) and seize Rumanian gold in retaliation

World War One Diary for Saturday, January 12, 1918: Home Fronts Britain: Officers pay put up to 10s 6d pd plus child allow­ances. Workers loot closed food shops in Leytonstone

World War One Diary for Friday, January 11, 1918: Western Front French raids in Argonne, Vosges and Champagne, German one fails south of Anmentieres. Home Fronts Russia: Sovnarkom orders all

World War One Diary for Thursday, January 10, 1918: Western Front Britain: Supreme War Council recommend BEF take over more of French sector, and creation of general Allied reserve (January

World War One Diary for Wednesday, Jnauary 9, 1918: Africa Mozambique: Hawthorn’s 3 KAR battalions drive Goering Detachment (3 coys) to east bank of river Lugenda and take Luambala from

World War One Diary for Tuesday, January 8, 1918: Politics USA: WILSON’S FOURTEEN POINTS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS outlines peace programme. Office of Public Information distributes all over Europe. French Parliament

World War One Diary for Monday, January 7, 1918: Africa Mozambique: Main body Gold Coast Regiment (500 + 300 carriers) lands at Port Amelia. British column from Fort Johnston drives

World War One Diary for Sunday, January 6, 1918: Middle East Heiaz Railway: Nasir’s 300 Arabs with 1 gun capture Jurf-ed­-Derawish Station with over 200 Turks 30 miles north of