Year 1917

World War One Diary for Tuesday, December 11, 1917: Middle East Palestine: Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot via Jaffa Gate with Allied parties including Major TE Lawrence and Lieutenant-Colonel Wavell […]

World War One Diary for Monday, December 10, 1917: Sea War Adriatic: 2 Italian MAS boats penetrate Trieste, MAS9 (Lieutenant Rizzo) sinks Austrian battleship Wien, worst Austrian warship loss so

World War One Diary for Sunday, December 9, 1917: Middle East Palestine – FALL OF JERUSALEM: Mayor hands keys to Ptes Church and Andrewes (mess cooks), then to GOC 60th

World War One Diary for Saturday, December 8, 1917: Middle East Palestine: British advance on Jerusalem begins despite heavy rain, 60th Division takes two villages, 297 PoWs, 3 guns and

World War One Diary for Friday, December 7, 1917: Western Front Britain: BEF GHQ Intelligence predict German 1918 offensive no later than March 1918. Battle of Cambrai ends: British 2-2

World War One Diary for Thursday, December 6, 1917: Southern Fronts Trentino: Austrian 21st Rifle Division storms Mt Sisemol (2,000 PoWs). Italians consolidate new line farther south across Valstagna and

World War One Diary for Wednesday, December 5, 1917: Southern Fronts Trentino: Conrad drives towards Foza, but delayed by Bersaglieri and Alpini troops rearguard. Middle East Palestine: First British trains

World War One Diary for Tuesday, December 4, 1917: Southern Fronts Trentino: Scheuchenstuel’s Eleventh Army (35 battalions) eliminates Mts Meletta­-Badenecche salient northeast of Asiago in 4 hours, taking 16,000 PoWs,

World War One Diary for Monday, December 3, 1917: Middle East Palestine: British 74th Division battalion (286 casualties) takes but loses Beit-Ur-el Foka. Mesopotamia – Third Action of Jebel Hamrin:

World War One Diary for Sunday, December 2, 1917: Eastern Front CEASEFIRE begins on dates fixed by local army commanders. Russian Armistice Commis­sion crosses German lines at Dvinsk and continues

World War One Diary for Saturday, December 1, 1917: Middle East Palestine: Turk 19th Division’s German-style storm battalion destroyed attack of ALH and 52nd Division at El Burj. Kress hands

World War One Diary for Friday, November 30, 1917: Western Front Cambrai – GERMAN SURPRISE COUNTER­ATTACK BEGINS with 0830 hours barrage including much gas shell: Second Army, reinforced to 20

World War One Diary for Thursday, November 29, 1917: Air War Italian Front: First British flight over Italian lines (Montello area) shoots down 1 Austrian single-seater but fighter attacks prevent

World War One Diary for Wednesday, November 28, 1917: Eastern Front Russia: Lenin and Trotsky radio and telegram proclamation ‘The Russian Army and the Russian people cannot and will not,

World War One Diary for Tuesday, November 27, 1917: Western Front Cambrai: Exhausted British disengage at Cambrai after Guards Division (with 32 tanks) driven back in Bourlon and Fontaine sectors.

World War One Diary for Monday, November 26, 1917: Southern Fronts Trentino: Austrian Edelweiss Division (only 2,000 strong by November 27) fails to capture Col della Berretta against 2 Italian

World War One Diary for Saturday, November 25, 1917: Eastern Front Western Russia: Fraternization near Baranovichi. At Orsha railway junction anti-Bolshevik troops going for Moscow are stopped. Home Fronts Russia

World War One Diary for Saturday, November 24, 1917: Southern Fronts Trentino: Emperor Charles ends attacks in Asiago sector, Conrad’s losses 15,030 (nearly 7,000 sick) since November 10. Western Front

World War One Diary for Froday, November 23, 1917: Africa East Africa: Zeppelin L59 (left Jamboli, Bulgaria on November 21 with 15t supplies including 30 MGs after vain attempts on

World War One Diary for Thursday, November 22, 1917: Southern Fronts Piave: Crisis day in key Mt Grappa sector as Austro­-Germans storm onto Mt.Tomba (3,176 ft), but Laderchi’s IX Corps’