07 Saturday Jul 2018
Posted in Aviation, European theatre, Western Front
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1918, air raid, Australia, Belgium, British Empire, civilian casualties, France, Germany, hospital, La Panne, Somme, Yser
Australians again advance on a 3,000-yard front in the hills on each side of the Somme. German airmen bomb Belgian hospital near La Panne, Yser front; over 50 girls killed.
27 Wednesday Jun 2018
Posted in Aviation, Naval warfare
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1918, air raid, casualties, civilian casualties, France, HMHS Llandovery Castle, hospital, Imperial German Navy, Ireland, Paris, Royal Navy, sinking, SM U-86, submarine
Another air raid on Paris; 11 killed, 14 injured. Hospital ship Llandovery Castle sunk 120 miles from the Irish coast by a submarine; 24 of the 58 on board rescued.
26 Tuesday Jun 2018
Posted in Aviation, Britain at home, European theatre, Western Front
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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Alexander Kerensky, civilian casualties, France, Germany, Great Britain, London, Paris, Vieux-Berquin
British troops take a strong point west of Vieux Berquin. Gotha raid on Paris; no casualties. M. Kerensky in London; he attends the Labour Party Conference.
06 Wednesday Jun 2018
Posted in Aviation, European theatre, Naval warfare, Western Front
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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Aisne, Allies, civilian casualties, France, Germany, Great Britain, hospital, HS Koningin Regentes, HS Sindoro, Netherlands, Paris, prisoners of war, sinking, SM UB-107, submarine, The Hague, Third Battle of the Aisne
Allied reactions against enemy progress increasing; north of the Aisne Le Port taken. Hospital ship Koningin Regentes, in company of Sindoro carrying British delegates to Hague Prisoners’ Mission, sunk, presumably by torpedo. Gotha raid on Paris; one killed and a few injured.
22 Tuesday May 2018
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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Belgium, civilian casualties, communications, France, German Empire, Germany, Great Britain, Imperial German Navy, Liege, Mahua, Mozambique, Nanungu, Paris, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Portugal, Portuguese Empire, railway, sinking, William FS Edwards, Zeebrugge
British air raid on Liége railway junctions. German air raid on Paris by about 30 machines, only one of which gets through defences; 1 killed, 12 injured. Air raids on Zeebrugge; a German destroyer in the harbour sunk by a bomb. General Edwards in contact with Von Lettow Vorbeck‘s forces between Nanungu and Mahua and drives him westwards.
19 Saturday May 2018
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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Austria-Hungary, Capo Sile, casualties, civilian casualties, England, Etaples, France, Germany, Great Britain, hospital, Italy, London, Mozambique, Nanungu, Portugal, Portuguese East Africa, Portuguese Empire, Venice, William FS Edwards
Italian storming party capture advanced positions at Capo Sile, north-east corner of Venetian lagoons. Great air raid on London in which some of new large Gothas participate; 44 killed and 179 injured in London; five raiders destroyed and believed two others fall in flames into the sea. German airmen bomb large group of British hospitals at Etaples, far outside battle area in France; 300 casualties. Nanungu, German headquarters in Mozambique, occupied by General Edwards.
12 Thursday Apr 2018
Posted in Aviation, Britain at home, European theatre, Western Front
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1918, air raid, Bailleul, Battle of Messines, Battle of the Lys, civilian casualties, France, Germany, Great Britain, Lawe, Messines, Neuve Eglise, St Venant, Zeppelin
In the north Germans gain ground towards Bailleul, enter Neuve Eglise, and again fight their way into Messines; in the centre they force the passage of the Lawe, threatening St. Venant. Raid by four Zeppelins, one of which reaches the Midlands; five killed, 15 injured.
13 Tuesday Mar 2018
Posted in Aviation, Britain at home, Eastern Front, European theatre, Western Front
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1918, air raid, Australia, Belgium, British Empire, civilian casualties, Comines, Durham, England, evacuation, Germany, Great Britain, Hartlepool, Odessa, Petrograd, Polygon Wood, Russia, St Petersburg, Ukraine, West Hartlepool, Ypres, Ypres-Comines Canal, Zeppelin
German strong point south-east of Polygon Wood carried; Australian raid near the Ypres-Comines Canal. Germans reach Odessa; Petrograd being evacuated. Raid by a Zeppelin on north-east coast; bombs dropped on Hartlepool; eight killed and 22 injured.
07 Wednesday Mar 2018
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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, Battle of Tell 'Asur, civilian casualties, Edmund Allenby, England, Finland, Finnish Civil War, France, Germany, Great Britain, Jerusalem, La Bassee, London, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, peace, Shechem, Turkey
Allenby advances in Palestine on a front of 18 miles to a depth of three across the Jerusalem-Shechem road. German raid north-west of La Bassée. Peace signed between Germany and Finland. Air raid on London on a moonless night, two out of seven or eight machines penetrating the defences; 20 killed and 45 injured.
17 Saturday Feb 2018
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1918, aeroplanes, air raid, armistice, civilian casualties, communications, Conflans, England, France, Germany, Great Britain, London, peace, railway, Russia, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Air raid on London by six or seven machines, of which one penetrates defences; 19 killed, 34 injured. British airmen bomb railway at Conflans. German Headquarters announce that Russian armistice expires on February 18.
