Diary November 7, 1917

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

shot fired from Aurora — The signal for the October Revolution – a shot is fired from the cruiser Aurora.

World War One Diary for Wednesday, November 7, 1917:

Eastern Front

Petrograd: Kerensky leaves by car to find loyal troops, other ministers in Winter Palace with 1,000 troops surrounded by 18,000 Reds. Red cruiser Aurora signals bombardment from 2210 hours.

Sea War

Baltic: Bolshevik cruiser Aurora (retained November 5) lands some of her 522 sailors to seize Nikolai Bridge in Petrograd. Revolution at Petrograd climaxes with searchlight assisted (but inaccurate) shelling of Winter Palace. Minelayer Amur, 2 minesweepers, 2 steamers, and 5 small craft arrive from Kronstadt with 3,800 sailors (c.9,700 in capital) and 950 soldiers. 4 destroyers sail from Helsinki to back Lenin (2 arrive on November 7) despite C-in-C’s protest.

Middle East

Palestine: Allenby occupies Gaza and pursues 8 miles to north. He already has 4,255 PoWs; 59 guns and over 84 MGs captured for 9,650 casualties.

Politics

Italy: Allied Rapallo Conference (until November 9, Anglo-French prime ministers left for Italy on November 4) agrees on Supreme Allied War Council on November 9.

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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.