Diary January 24, 1917

01-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

World War One Diary for Wednesday, January 24, 1917:

Middle East

Arabia: 400 of Feisal’s regulars with 200 sailors from 3 British ships capture Wejh from 200 Turks (until January 25) as Feisal and Lawrence (in Cairo on january 28) approach by land.

African Fronts

East Africa: Major Grawert’s 289 Germans surrender at Likuju in south. Major Otto’s 600 soldiers (46 casualties) beat Nigerians (64 casualties) at Ngwembe (until January 25) south of Rufiji.

Home Fronts

Germany: Railway chaos in winter freeze prevents all extra traffic (until February 5) despite mobile unloading teams.

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Kretaner

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.

Middle East

African Fronts

Home Fronts

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