Diary October 16, 1917

10-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

Allied transshipment at Boulogne to distribute goods on the Western Front.

World War One Diary for Tuesday, October 16, 1917:

Western Front

Aisne: French attack west of Craonne fails. 1,800 French guns and 460 mortars prepare way for limited offensive (until October 22) on 7 1/2-mile front, ie maximum of 1 gun to 6 yards with 120,000t of shells.

Eastern Front

Baltic Provinces: Russian civilians evacuate Reval (Estonia).
Northern Russia: Main body of Royal Navy Air Service Armoured Car Squadron sails from Archangel (most land at Newcastle on October 29).

Africa

East Africa: Whale evacuates Nyangao, but Lettow’s 1,000 men with 2 guns reinforce him to surround Nigerian Brigade in two groups, which loses 300 casualties and 1 gun.

Sea War

Baltic: German fleet inside Gulf of Riga before Avensburg and facing Moon Sound. Royal Navy submarine C27 (Sealy) torpedoes the minesweeper tender Indianola, only success of numerous attacks.
Adriatic: 2 Austrian battleships and 10 torpedo boats shell Italian coast near Cortellazzo (Piave); 2 Italian MAS boats attack.

Air War

Mesopotamia: 3 Royal Flying Corps No 30 Squadron Martinsydes (1 forced down) bomb Kifri airfield (and on October 31, 4 aircraft lost).

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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.