Diary October 30, 1916

10-1916, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

British vessels at anchor in the southern Italian port of Taranto. They are part of the Ontranto barrage across the Adriatic.

World War One Diary for Monday, October 30, 1916:

Sea War

Adriatic: Allied Taranto conference on Otranto Barrage ducks single commander question but Italians will transfer 22 trawlers from Tyrrhenian, plus add 18 small torpedo boats and 38 aircraft (30 French aircrafts at Corfu).
Britain: Royal Navy has 47 a-ships, from drifters to medium-size steamers.

Western Front

Battle of the Somme: British Reserve Army redesignated Fifth Army and reinforced with guns from Third Army and all available 52 Tank Mk I‘s for limited ops astride Ancre Valley.

Middle East

Arabia: Sherif Hussein proclaims himself ‘King of the Arab Lands’; Anglo-French protests.

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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.

Sea War

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Middle East

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