World War One Diary for Saturday, August 31, 1918: Western Front Flanders: Germans evacuate Mt Kemmel. Cambrai: 3 German tanks attack British lines near Bapaume but repulsed by artillery fire; […]
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World War One Diary for Friday, August 30, 1918: Middle East Trans-Jordan: First 600 supply camels begin 300-mile march to Azrak. Western Front AEF now holds 90 miles of front
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World War One Diary for Thursday, August 29, 1918: Western Front GERMANS BEGIN EVACUAÂTION OF FLANDERS: Sniper kills British war poet Lt H L Simpson at Hazebrouck. CIGS telegram warns
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World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 28, 1918: Western Front GENERAL GERMAN RETREAT FROM THE SCARPE TO ABOVE R AISNE. Somme: Chaulnes reoccupied by French. Crown Prince William Special
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World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 27, 1918: Western Front Somme: British III Corps recaptures Delville and Trones Woods and Greenland Hill. French recapture Roye and Chauny (Oise). Eastern
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World War One Diary for Monday, August 26, 1918: Western Front Somme: GERMAN 10-MILE RETIREMENT on 55-mile line south to north of Noyon-east of Peronne-ÂBapaume-Lens (night August 26-27). Ludendorff overrules
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World War One Diary for Sunday, August 25, 1918: Western Front Somme: British troops now again hold Albert-Bapaume road, Mametz Wood, 2nd Division recaptures Behagnies and Sapignies, north of Bapaume.
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World War One Diary for Saturday, August 24, 1918: Western Front Somme: British 38th Division recaptures Thiepval Ridge and reaches Bapaume outskirts. British 99th Brigade (2nd Division) captures Mory Copse.
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World War One Diary for Friday, August 23, 1918: Western Front Somme: Main attack by BEF Third and Fourth Armies now on 33-mile front supported by 100 tanks, former advances
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World War One Diary for Thursday, August 22, 1918: Southern Fronts Albania: Last Central Powers’ military success in full swing, regaining Devoli and Semeni river lines. Western Front Britain: Haig
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World War One Diary for Wednesday, August 21, 1918: France: ALLIED OFFENSIVE RENEWED (until September 3). Haig tells Churchill chances of 1918 victory good. Somme: ÂSECOND BATTLE OF ALBERT (until
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World War One Diary for Tuesday, August 20, 1918: Southern Fronts Albania – Austrian counterÂ-offensive (until August 26): Colonel-General Pflanzer-Baltin flown in to command XIX Corps including fresh 45th Division
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World War One Diary for Monday, August 19, 1918: Western Front Aisne: French troops capture Le Hamel. Somme: French First Army takes over Canadian Corps line; latter transferred to British
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World War One Diary for Sunday, August 18, 1918: Western Front Flanders: British Second Army (671 casualties) advance between Vieux Berquin and Bailleul takes 697 PoWs including Fifth Army 5-mile
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World War One Diary for Saturday, August 17, 1918: Western Front Mangin’s Tenth Army (1,138 guns) gains c.2000 yards between rivers Oise and Aisne with over 2,000 PoWs (until August
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