08-1917

World War One Diary for Thursday, August 16, 1917: Home Fronts Germany: OHL remove General Groener from War Office (to 33rd Division at Verdun), General Scheuch succeeds, but put under […]

World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 15, 1917: Politics Britain: US troops pass through London. War Cabinet decides to send 8 guns to Russia (none sent since March and

World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 14, 1917: Eastern Front Rumania: German Alpenkorps storms Height 334 as Russian VIII Corps flees. Sea War Germany: Scheer writes to Navy Minister

World War One Diary for Monday, August 13, 1917: Western Front Verdun: French 2,400-gun bombardment begins (including 1,100 heavy gun) on 12 1/2-mile front until August 20. German artillery fire

World War One Diary for Sunday, August 12, 1917: Home Fronts Russia: Ex-Tsar with family moved to Abalak Monastery, Tobolsk, Siberia. Sea War North Sea: Destroyer HMS Oracle rams and

World War One Diary for Saturday, August 11, 1917: Western Front Ypres: German counter­-attacks east of Ypres, part of Glencorse Wood recaptured. Eastern Front Rumania: Mackensen forces river Sereth at

World War One Diary for Friday, August 10, 1917: Middle East Palestine: Allenby told he will get a division from Salonika, must ‘strike the Turks as hard as possible’; he

World War One Diary for Thursday, August 9, 1917: Eastern Front Rumania: Mackensen beyond river Susitza threatens Allied rear. Lieutenant Rommel wounded in left arm but carries on for two

World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 8, 1917: Eastern Front Galicia: Turk 20th Division hands over its sector to German 24th Reserve Division (night August 8-9) before leaving for

World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 7, 1917: Home Fronts Britain: Churchill sees Clyde deportee Kirkwood, makes him Miie-End London shell factory manager on August 10 and by late

World War One Diary for Monday, August 6, 1917: Eastern Front Rumania – Battle of Marasesti second phase begins (­until September 3): Mackensen (12 divisions with 865 guns) storms positions

World War One Diary for Sunday, August 5, 1917: Middle East Armenia: Russian troops being withdrawn to Europe acroos the Caucasus. In August British estimate 123,500 effective Russian infantry vs

World War One Diary for Saturday, August 4, 1917: Sea War Irish Sea: UC-44 sunk on UC-42 mines off Waterford after Room 40 sends bogus signal in code Germans discovered

World War One Diary for Friday, August 3, 1917: Western Front Artois: British success on ‘Infantry Hill’. Unsuccessful Allied attack astride the Scarpe on August 9. Ypres: German 2nd Guard

World War One Diary for Thursday, August 2, 1917: Air War North Sea – First aircraft landing on a ship steaming: RNAS Squadron-Commander Dunning’s Sopwith Pup side-slips onto HMS Furious