Diary July 23, 1917

07-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

Rumanian gunners of a M1896 Vickers 127mm howitzer.

World War One Diary for Monday, July 23, 1917:

Eastern Front

Rumania – Battle of Marasesti (until August 1): Averescu’s Rumanian Second Army advances 12 1/2 miles on 20-mile front, takes 30 villages; 2,977 PoWs; 57 guns from German Ninth Army (Kosch), but Russian Fourth Army refuses help.
Galicia: Russian retreat on 150-mile front, Stanislau and Halicz given up as Austrian Third Army (Kritek) recrossed river Lomnica.

Western Front

Flanders and Artois: British-Canadian trench raids (and on July 28); Canadian 116th battalion (74 casualties) captures 53 PoWs from German 36th Reserve Division west of Lens.

Sea War

North Atlantic: U-boat sinks AMC Otway (10 lifes lost).

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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.

Eastern Front

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Sea War

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