Year 1918

World War One Diary for Thursday, November 21, 1918: Sea War SURRENDER OF GERMAN FLEET TO GRAND FLEET off Firth of Forth; 9 battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 7 cruisers, and 49 […]

World War One Diary for Wednesday, November 20, 1918: Sea War North Sea: Harwich Force meets first 20 U-boats (of 170) to surrender 20 miles off Lowestoft and puts prize

World War One Diary for Tuesday, November 19, 1918: Home Fronts Britain: Naval censorship abolished. NUR (National Union of Railwaymen) announce withdrawal from War Truce. Government announces over 3 million

World War One Diary for Monday, November 18, 1918: Western Front BRUSSELS REOCCUPIED BY BELGIANS. Last German troops leave French territory. Retiring Germans blow up munition dump at Beez, east

World War One Diary for Sunday, November 17, 1918: Politics Yugoslavia: Yugoslav National Council at Agram protests vs Italy occupying Fiume (but General Grazuli ‘persuades’ Serb troops to evacuate on

World War One Diary for Saturday, November 16, 1918: Eastern Front POLAND DECLARES INDEPENDENCE: President General Pilsudski, Poles demand Posen’s surrender. Ukraine: ­German evacuation begins. Finland: German troops (4 divisions)

World War One Diary for Friday, November 15, 1918: Western Front Inter-Allied Armistice Commis­sion (IMC) assembles at Spa. General Plumer makes formal entry into Mons. First 2 trainloads of Allied

World War One Diary for Thursday, November 14, 1918: Eastern Front Ukraine: Hetman Skoropadski tries to change sides, but Denikin and Whites reject offer. General Petlyura rebels vs Ukrainian Government.

World War One Diary for Wednesday, November 13, 1918: Southern Fronts Hungary: Government signs final Central Powers’ armistice at Belgrade, Field Marshal Misic and General Henrys sign for Allies. French

World War One Diary for Tuesday, November 12, 1918: Home Fronts France: ­Paris celebrates even more enthusiastically (until November 13). Germany: Council of Peoples Commissars abolish Auxiliary Service Law and

World War One Diary for Monday, November 11, 1918: Western Front France: ARMISTICE SIGNED in Foch’s wagon lit at Rethondes, Compiegne Forest at 0505 hours, COMES INTO FORCE 1100 HOURS

World War One Diary for Sunday, November 10, 1918: Politics Germany: Kaiser crosses into Holland at Eysdin at about 0700 hours with 70 staff in 11 cars, waits for and

World War One Diary for Saturday, November 9, 1918: Politics Germany: KAISER ‘ABDICATES’, REVOLUTION IN BERLIN as Scheidemann proclaims German Republic from Reichstag, Prince Max becomes Regent (having announced Kaiser’s

World War One Diary for Friday, November 8, 1918: Western Front France: GERMAN ARMISTICE DELEGATION led by Erzberger SEES FOCH at 0900 hours, refer terms to Berlin 1300 hours. GERMAN

World War One Diary for Thursday, November 7, 1918: Politics Germany: BAVARIA DECLARED REPUBLIC by Prussian Jew Kurt Eisner at Munich as King Ludwig III flees into Austria (formally deposed

World War One Diary for Wednesday, November 6, 1918: Western Front Meuse – US 1st DIVISION REACHES SEDAN: traffic halted on key Mezieres­-Montmedy railway; only line to Western Front still

World War One Diary for Tuesday, November 5, 1918: Western Front Sambre – Pursuit after Battle of the Sambre begins: BEF Fourth, Third and First Armies engaged; Mormal Forest cleared.

World War One Diary for Monday, November 4, 1918: Sea War Baltic: Enraged by ‘Karlstrasse Bloodbath’ thousands of sailors, 20,000 garrison troops and workers join Kiel mutiny. Crew of battleship

World War One Diary for Sunday, November 3, 1918: Southern Fronts Italian Front: AUSTRIAN ARMISTICE SIGNED AT 1800 HOURS by Generals Weber and Badoglio at Diaz’s Villa Giusti headquarter near

World War One Diary for Saturday, November 2, 1918: Southern Fronts Italy: Allied Supreme War Council approves plan (until November 4) for up to 40 Italian divisions (including 5 British