Diary March 14, 1917

03-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

A section of the German Hindenburg Line with huge barbed-wire defenses.

World War One Diary for Wednesday, March 14, 1917:

Western Front

Somme – MAIN GERMAN RETREAT TO THE HINDENBURG LINE begins (until April 5): German Second and First Armies involved. BEF Fifth Army follows cautiously including 4th (1st Indian) Cavalry Division.

Middle East

Mesopotamia – Battle of Mushahida Station (20 miles north of Baghdad, west of Tigris): Cobbe’s 7th Division (518 casualties) with 46 guns smashes Turk rearguard (800-1,000 casualties) after night march from Baghdad (returns on March 17). British 40th Brigade occupies Kasirin (28 miles north of Baghdad, east of Tigris).

Home Fronts

Russia: Provisional Government proclaimed, meets Petrograd Soviet. Petrograd Soviet Order No 1 demoralize Army, orders elected committees to control weaponry and one representative per coy to Soviet; saluting off duty abolished. Tsar’s train stopped at Pskov.
Strikes and 30,000-strong march at Reval (until March 15).
France: War Minister Lyautey resigns because of Socialist hostility.

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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.

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