Diary September 19, 1918

09-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

British cavalry Palestine — British cavalry is advancing through Palestine.

World War One Diary for Thursday, September 19, 1918:

Middle East

Palestine – BATTLES OF MEGIDDO (until September 25): Bulfin’s XXI Corps (35,000 men) advances from 0430 hours behind 385-gun barrage. DMC follows by 0700 hours, takes’ 7,000 PoWs and 100 guns in 22-mile ride. Turk Eighth Army headquarter at Tulkarm falls to 60th Division after 18-mile march.
Trans-Jordan: Lawrence destroys Turk plane on ground and engages train in his armoured car.
Egypt and Palestine: Egyptian Labour Corps 100,000 strong in 99 coys and 30 camps in Palestine.

Air War

Palestine: RAF strike Tulkarm-Nablus road, 2 army headquarters, telephone exchanges and 3 airfields. No 113 Squadron twice smokescreens XXI Corps’ advance. Jenin airfield captured on September 28 with 11 burnt German aircraft.

Southern Fronts

Salonika: Renewed Anglo-Greek attack fails in 6 bloody hours as some British caught in own shellfire. Milne tells d’Esperey British can do no more. Bulgar First Army Commander General Nerezov proposes counter-offensive to take Salonika but German-Bulgar (Steuben and Todorov) Prilep conference decides on gradual withdrawal prior to cutting off Allied salient. Franco-Greek attack storms Mt Dzena (7,000ft).

Politics

Belgium: Government rejects German peace offer.
Britain: J Davis new US London Ambassador.

About The Author

Kretaner

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.