Diary October 31, 1917
World War One Diary for Wednesday, October 31, 1917: Middle East Palestine – THIRD BATTLE OF GAZA (until November 7): after 24-30 mile march, DMC (11,000 men and 28 guns) […]
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Diary October 30, 1917
World War One Diary for Tuesday, October 30, 1917: Southern Fronts Italy: Foch visits Cadorna’s new Treviso headquarter and tells him ‘You’ve lost only one army, fight hard with the
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Diary October 29, 1917
World War One Diary for Monday, October 29, 1917: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Below orders Tagliamento bridges’ seizure; Italians blow Codroipo bridges prematurely leaving 12,000 men on wrong side, but XXIV
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Diary October 28, 1917
World War One Diary for Sunday, October 28, 1917: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Despite rain and snowstorms German 200th Division crosses river Torre at 0400 hours and occupies Udine 20 hours
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Diary October 27, 1917
World War One Diary for Saturday, October 27, 1917: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Cadorna orders general retreat at 0230 hours, already widely happening on jammed roads. German Alpenkorps and 2 other
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Diary October 26, 1917
World War One Diary for Friday, October 26, 1917: Western Front Flanders – SECOND BATTLE OF PASSCHENDAELE (until November 10): ‘The enemy charged like a wild bull against the iron
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Diary October 25, 1917
World War One Diary for Thursday, October 25, 1917: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Austro-German pincers close behind Mt Nero. Lieutenant Rommel’s Wurttemberg Mountain Battalion from Alpenkorps seizes Mts Kuk and Cragonza
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Diary October 24, 1917
World War One Diary for Wednesday, October 24, 1917: Southern Fronts Italian Front: BATTLE OF CAPORETTO (TWELFTH ISONZO, until November 9) begins on misty, rainy day with 0200 hours hurricane
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Diary October 23, 1917
World War One Diary for Tuesday, October 23, 1917: Western Front Germany – OHL appreciation: ‘The guiding principle of our general military situation remains … that the decision lies in
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Diary October 22, 1917
World War One Diary for Monday, October 22, 1917: Southern Fronts Dolomites: Italians repulse strong Austro-German attack. Isonzo: German Fourteenth Army now in start positions. Tapped telephone warns Italians of
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Diary October 21, 1917
World War One Diary for Sunday, October 21, 1917: Western Front Lorraine – US TROOPS ENTER LINE: US 1st Division joins French in Luneville sector. Each American unit of the
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Diary October 20, 1917
World War One Diary for Tuesday, October 20, 1917: Air WAr Flanders: 45 Royal Flying Corps Sopwith Camel fghters and Spads (2 lost) attack Rumbeke airfield southeast of Roulers from
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Diary October 19, 1917
World War One Diary for Friday, October 19, 1917: Air War Britain – The ‘Silent Raid’: 13 German naval Zeppelins (5 lost) fly disastrous high-altitude mission against Northern England industrial
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Diary October 18, 1917
World War One Diary for Thursday, October 18, 1917: Home Fronts USA: Navy Secretary Daniels calls Liberty loan U-boat (on display New York) ‘this stiletto of modern warfare’; 58 enemy
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Diary October 17, 1917
World War One Diary for Wednesday, October 17, 1917: Sea War Baltic – Gulf of Riga 27-minutes battleship action: Russian battleship Slava damaged (3 hits) by Koenig and Kronprinz, goes
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