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July 7, 1918

07 Saturday Jul 2018

Posted by The Times Report 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.

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June 27, 1918

27 Wednesday Jun 2018

Posted by The Times Report 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.

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June 26, 1918

26 Tuesday Jun 2018

Posted by The Times Report 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.

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June 6, 1918

06 Wednesday Jun 2018

Posted by The Times Report 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.

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May 22, 1918

22 Tuesday May 2018

Posted by The Times Report in African theatre, Aviation, East Africa Campaign, European theatre, Naval warfare, Western Front

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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.

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May 19, 1918

19 Saturday May 2018

Posted by The Times Report in African theatre, Aviation, Britain at home, East Africa Campaign, European theatre, Italian Front, Western Front

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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.

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April 12, 1918

12 Thursday Apr 2018

Posted by The Times Report 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.

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March 13, 1918

13 Tuesday Mar 2018

Posted by The Times Report 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.

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March 7, 1918

07 Wednesday Mar 2018

Posted by The Times Report in Aviation, Britain at home, Diplomacy & foreign affairs, European theatre, Middle Eastern theatre, Sinai & Palestine Campaign, Western Front

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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, Nablus, 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.

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February 17, 1918

17 Saturday Feb 2018

Posted by The Times Report in Aviation, Britain at home, Diplomacy & foreign affairs, Eastern Front, European theatre, Western Front

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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.

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