Diary May 7, 1917

05-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, named Lenin, after his return to Russia.

World War One Diary for Monday, May 7, 1917:

Home Fronts

Russia: First post-Revolution Bolshevik Party Conference (until May 12) with 80,000 members; Lenin elected to Central Committee.

Air War

Western Front: Captain Albert Ball, Royal Flying Corps (44 victories, last 2 on May 5) killed aged 20 in an SE5 inverted from low cloud behind German lines; cause perhaps vertigo. Only 5 of No 60 Squadron’s 11 Scouts he was among return from evening patrol. Posthumous Victoria Cross.

Middle East

Turkey: Falkenhayn reaches Constantinople to discuss Baghdad’s reconquest (he leaves on May 13).
Palestine: Imperial Camel Corps blow up wells south of Beersheba (until May 14).

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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.

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Middle East

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