Diary November 6, 1917

11-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

World War One Diary for Tuesday, November 6, 1917:

Middle East

Palestine: 17,000-strong XX Corps (1,300 casualties) storms central Turk Sheria position (c.4,000 men + c.40 guns) without prelim barrage, takes over 600 PoWs and 12 guns.
Hejaz Railway: Lawrence and c.100 Arabs cross south of Deraa but lose explosives for Tell-el-Shehab rail bridge.

Western Front

Flanders: Canadians (2,238 casualties) capture Passchendaele after 0600 hours assault by 0900 hours; also Goudberg and Mosselmarkts with 464 PoWs. French I Corps captures Merckem.

Eastern Front

Petrograd: 3 Don Cossack regiments decide not to back Kerensky. Bolsheviks seize railway stations, bridges, state bank and telephone exchange. Lenin arrives at Smolny Institute headquarter.

Air War

Western Front: 4 Royal Flying Corps Sopwith Camel fighters get lost and come down nr Namur and Rheims (1 pilot escapes into Holland after burning plane).

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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.