Diary July 9, 1917

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

Handley Page 100 biplane on an airfield in the Mediterranean.

World War One Diary for Monday, July 9, 1917:

Air War

Turkey: An RNAS Handley Page (flown out to Mudros in May) bombs (8 x 112lb) Constantinople (Golden Horn area) and Turco-German Fleet for 35 minutes after 7hr flight; destroyer damaged and Turk War Office.
Britain: General Wilson to Haig on Gotha London raid ‘one would have thought the world was coming to an end’.

Sea War

Mediterranean: Royal Navy Air Service bomb Constantinople War Ministry and battlecruiser Goeben. Ludendorff warns German Navy that British may try landings behind Turks in Palestine, U-boat always to be in Eastern Mediterranean (July 16) and Port Said-Gaza route to be mined, 3 U-boats assigned (September 29).
North Sea: Battleship Vanguard sunk by internal explosion (unstable cordite) at Scapa Flow (804 dead, only 3 survivors).

Western Front

Germany: Military propaganda service entrusted with ‘enlightenment’ of the front-line troops.
Flanders: Slight British advance on Messines sector.
Aisne: French counter-attacks at Braye-en-Launnois.

Eastern Front

Galicia: Austrian Third Army retreats to river Lomnica, losing 1000 PoWs. Its C-in-C Tersztyanzky replaced by Kritek by July 16.

Politics

Germany: Kaiser rejects Bethmann’s peace policy without annexation.

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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.