Diary December 24, 1917

12-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

Meeting of British Naval Officers. Left foreground standing on the left Beatty of the Grand Fleet, and far right Jellicoe, who was C-in-C at Jutland.

World War One Diary for Monday, December 24, 1917:

Sea War

Britain: Jellicoe resigns as First Sea Lord at Geddes’ request (made public on December 26). Admiral Sir W Wemyss succeeds, Admiral Sir S Fremantle replaces Oliver as DCNS; Bacon recalled from Dover Patrol on December 28.

Eastern Front

Austrians row with Bulgars at Brest-Litovsk.
Ukraine: Battles at Tamarovka Station and Oboyan (West of Kharkov), Sievers’ Reds capture Lyubotin on December 25.

Southern Fronts

Trentino: Italian counter-stroke recaptures Mt Melago and Col del Rosso save summit. First heavy snow, a month late.

Politics

Belgium: King Albert replies to Papal peace note.
Austria: Czernin (Red delegate Joffe at Brest-Litovsk assures him over Tsar on December 26) to Emperor Charles ‘Your Majesty must therefore get Poland in order to maintain parity’ (with Germany).

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.