Diary September 25, 1917

09-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

Shelled village near Ypres. In the autumn of 1914 here was fiercely fought, and in 1917 Flanders was a battlefield again.

World War One Diary for Tuesday, September 25, 1917:

Western Front

France: At Boulogne Conference British agree in principle to extending BEF front.
Ypres – Battle of the Menin Road Ridge ends: Germans penetrate between Tower Hamlets and Polygon Wood, but later retire.

Air War

Britain: 15 Gotha bombers (1 lost) dispatched, 4 reach London.
Mesopotamia: Royal Flying Corps No 63 squadron loses 2 RE8s on first reconnaissance mission from Baghdad to German
aircraft near Tikrit.
Ypres: RFC claims 19 German aircraft for loss of 1 missing.
Belgium: Royal Navy Air Service and Royal Flying Corps attack St Denis Westrem and Gontrode Gotha bases (until October 10) forcing bombers to disperse and use two other airfields.
Adriatic: Italians bomb Pola and Olivi Rock submarine base.

Home Fronts

Russia: Lenin writes to Central committee (letter arriving September 27) that armed uprising necessary.
Ireland: Death of Easter Rising rebel T Ashe (rearrested August 14) after forcible feeding in prison.

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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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