Diary August 29, 1918

08-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

German cemetery of honour for soldiers killed in the Flanders battles of 1914, at which the marching back soldiers said ‘It seems they are well lying there, because they have overcome it’.

World War One Diary for Thursday, August 29, 1918:

Western Front

GERMANS BEGIN EVACUATION OF FLANDERS: Sniper kills British war poet Lt H L Simpson at Hazebrouck. CIGS telegram warns Haig ‘the War Cabinet would become anxious if we received heavy punishment in attacking the Hindenburg Line without success’.
Somme: New Zealand Division recaptures Bapaume.
Aisne: French re-occupy Noyon and cross river Ailette.
Artois: Canadians advance nearly 1,000 yards, taking 2 villages on river Sensee.

Sea War

Spanish SS Casara sunk by U-boat.

Air War

Western Front: 16 RAF DH9s cause fires at Cambrai and Valenciennes stations, but 20 German fighters (4 lost) thwart 12 DH9s (2 lost) from bombing Somain station and their 15 escorting Sopwith Camel fighters lose 5. Germans claim 40 aircraft for loss of 4.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

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