Diary July 3, 1917

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

German infantryman of an assault unit wearing full trench body armour.

World War One Diary for Tuesday, July 3, 1917:

Western Front

Aisne: Larger scale German attacks on 11-mile front north of the Aisne.

Eastern Front

Galicia: Russian Eleventh Army has taken 14,000 PoWs and over 30 guns so far, but slow reserves prevent exploitation.

Middle East

Arabia: Lawrence’s 450 Arabs destroy Turk battalion (460 casualties) at Abu-el-Lissal; 120 Turks at Guweira surrender to Sheikh Ibn Jad.

Air War

Dardanelles: 9 Royal Navy Air Service aircraft open night bombing offensive from Mudros against Gallipoli (also raids on July 8, 11, 15).

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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.