Year 1918

World War One Diary for Tuesday, Septenber 17, 1918: Southern Fronts Macedonia: Franco-Serb breakthrough now 6 miles deep and 20 miles wide. General Ruser orders his Bulgar 2nd Division to […]

World War One Diary for Monday, September 16, 1918: Sea War Channel: Monitor HMS Glatton scuttled at Dover following magazine explosion and fire. Coastal submarine UB-103, sighted by British blimp

World War One Diary for Sunday, September 15, 1918: Southern Fronts Macedonia: At 0530 hours 36,000 Serb, French and Italian infantry attack 12,000 Bulgars and Germans, capture Mt Vetrenik (4,725ft),

World War One Diary for Saturday, September 14, 1918: Middle East Azerbaijan – Turks capture Baku: 8-10 battalions capture Wolfs Gate. Dunsterforce evacuation ordered at 2000 hours after 180 casualties

World War One Diary for Friday, September 13, 1918: Western Front Meuse – St Mihiel: Pershing takes 13,000 PoWs and 200 guns as salient closed at Vigneulles by 0600 hours

World War One Diary for Thursday, September 12, 1918: Western Front Meuse – BATTLE OF ST MIHIEL (until September 16): After 4-hour barrage from 0100 hours by 3,010 guns, 216,000

World War One Diary for Wednesday, September 11, 1918: Western Front France: Belgian King Albert meets Foch at Bombon and agrees to lead Allied Flanders offensive. Cambrai: German counter­-attacks at

World War One Diary for Tuesday, September 10, 1918: Home Fronts Germany: Kaiser addresses 1500 Krupp workers on only visit to Essen Gusstahlfabrik and gets no response. Eastern Front Volga:

World War One Diary for Monday, September 9, 1918: Western Front Germany: Lieutenant-Colonel Wetzell, strategic adviser at OHL, superseded owing to rows with Ludendorff. Somme: British gain high ground commanding

World War One Diary for Sunday, September 8, 1918: Western Front France: Foch visits King Albert and Haig (who tells Churchill ‘the Allies should aim at getting a decision as

World War One Diary for Saturday, September 7, 1918: Eastern Front USSR: Lenin cables Trotsky ‘Recovery proceeding excellently’. First £12.5 million of war indemnity sent from Moscow. Germans receive at

World War One Diary for Friday, September 6, 1918: Western Front Flanders: GERMAN EVACUATION OF LYS SALIENT COMPLETE. At OHL Conference Hindenburg stresses gravity of situation; Boehn recommends 45-mile retirement

World War One Diary for Thursday, September 5, 1918: Western Front Somme: French Third Army (Humbert) advances on St Quentin from Noyon, retakes Ham on September 6, fights across Crozat

World War One Diary for Wednesday, September 4, 1918: Southern Fronts Britain: Lloyd George approves Macedonia offensive after Guillaumat visits London, latter then visits Rome who approve on September 10.

World War One Diary for Tuesday, September 3, 1918: Western Front France: FOCH GENERAL ORDER SPECIFIES UNREMITTING ATTACKS ALL ALONG THE LINE. Germany: Ludendorff secret order deplores defeatist talk by