Diary March 4, 1917

03-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

World War One Diary for Sunday, March 4, 1917:

Home Fronts

Russia: Food riots in Petrograd (and on March 6 and 7),
France: Tubercular Ex-Soldiers Flag Day.
Britain: War Office decides to form 9 tank battalions (total of 1,000 tanks).

Western Front

France: General d’Esperey (Northern Army Group) vainly asks Nivelle to let him attack retreating Germans (and on March 6 again), asks for tanks on March 9.
Aisne: French advance between rivers Oisne and Aisne, south of Mouvron.
Somme: British 8th Division (1,137 casualties) captures Bouchavesnes with 217 PoWs and repels six counter-attacks.
Verdun: German 28th Division penetrates Caurieres Wood.

Eastern Front

Germany: Hoffmann diary ‘The Russian Army is deteriorating.’
Rumania: Rumanians troops bombard near Calieni, but lose Magyaros Ridge on March 8 and fail to regain it on March 10 and 28.

Southern Fronts

Isonzo: Italians form Gorizia Defence Command (3 corps) for Mt Kuk to Mt Santo sector under General Capello, Second Army reduced to IV Corps because of this.
Austrian attack east of Gorizia repulsed. Italians occupy heights in Costabella Mountains. Fighting in the Dolomites.

About The Author

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.