Year 1918

World War One Diary for Saturday, October 12, 1918: Western Front Germany: Hindenburg warns troops that favourable armistice terms depend on.successful resitance. OHL sanctions Sixth Army retirement (begins early October […]

World War One Diary for Friday, October 11, 1918: Western Front GERMANS forced by pressure on flanks into GENERAL WITHDRAWAL between rivers Oise and Meuse to Hunding­-Brunhild line. Flanders­: German

World War One Diary for Thursday, October 10, 1918: Western Front France – FOCH’S ORDERS FOR FINAL ALLIED ADVANCES: Belgians advance on Bruges, BEF upon Maubeuge and Mons, and Franco­-Americans

World War One Diary for Wednesday, October 9, 1918: Western Front Cambrai – HINDENBURG LINE COMPLETELY BROKEN: Canadians enter Cambrai, link with Third Army, begin BEF pursuit to the Selle

World War One Diary for Tuesday, October 8, 1918: Western Front Somme and Cambrai – SECOND BATTLE OF CAMBRAI (until October 9): British Third, Fourth and First (takes Fresnoy-Rouvroy line

World War One Diary for Monday, October 7, 1918: Western Front France: Supreme War Council learns new German Chancellor has approached President Wilson with request for armistice. Aisne­: French troops

World War One Diary for Sunday, October 6, 1918: Middle East Syria: DMC occupies Rayak and Zahle (177 PoWs), 30 burnt planes at former. Eastern Front USSR: British Petrograd officials

World War One Diary for Saturday, October 5, 1918: Western Front Somme and Cambrai: British 25th Division (Fourth Army) with 6 tanks captures Beaurevoir; Germans retire from Scheldt Canal. Kaiser

World War One Diary for Friday, October 4, 1918: Western Front France: Allies announce capture of 254,012 PoWs; 3,669 guns; 23,000 MGs between July 15 and September 30. Meuse and

World War One Diary for Thursday, October 3, 1918: Western Front Somme and Cambrai – BATTLE OF BEAUREVOIR LINE (until October 5): British Fourth and Third Armies attack on 8-mile

World War One Diary for Wednesday, October 2, 1918: Western Front Germany: Bussche briefs Reichstag party leaders: sustained Allied attacks on whole Western Front make formation of reserves impossible; OHL

World War One Diary for Tuesday, October 1, 1918: Middle East Syria: FALL OF DAMASCUS (population c.250,000). 3rd ALH Brigade enters before 0630 hours, Lawrence and Arabs at 0730 hours;

World War One Diary for Monday, September 30, 1918: Western Front Flanders: British troops 2 miles away from Menin. Cambrai: British in Cambrai outskirts; six villages captured. German incendiarists at

World War One Diary for Sunday, September 29, 1918: Western Front Germany: Ludendorff severely depressed; he and Hindenburg insist on armistice and new government; Kaiser agrees. Cambrai: BEF RIGHT WING

World War One Diary for Saturday, September 28, 1918: Southern Fronts Salonika: Armistice talks begin at 1600 hours including General Lukov and Bulgar Finance Minister who hope for neutral status

World War One Diary for Friday, September 27, 1918: Western Front Meuse-Argonne: Franco-American advance slows. Montfaucon behind Michel Stellung and Varennes (Crown Prince’s 1916 Verdun observation point) captured, 23,000 PoWs.

World War One Diary for Thursday, September 26, 1918: Western Front France – FOCH LAUNCHES GENERAL OFFENSIVE: 1st Phase (until October 15). BATTLE OF MEUSE­-ARGONNE (until November 11): After 3

World War One Diary for Wednesday, September 25, 1918: Air War Western Front: Rickenbacker awarded CMH; posthumous award to Texas ‘balloon-buster’ Lieutenant Frank Luke, 29 (killed on September 19 after

World War One Diary for Tuesday, September 24, 1918: Western Front Germany: OHL informs Berlin Government that armistice talks inevitable. Somme: Anglo-French attack on 4-mile front east of Vermand to

World War One Diary for Monday, September 23, 1918: Middle East Palestine: 500 British cavalry capture Acre and Haifa with 889 PoWs and 18 guns. Liman arrives in Damascus (stay