March 22, 1918

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1918, casualties, communications, Edmund Allenby, First Transjordan attack on Amman, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hejaz, Jordan, mines, Operation Michael, Ottoman Empire, Palestine, prisoners of war, railway, Royal Navy, sinking, Somme, St Quentin, Turkey, weapons

Germans break through British positions west of St. Quentin and endeavour to turn the British right; British forces retiring to the line of the Somme; Germans claim 16,000 prisoners and 200 guns. Allenby crosses the Jordan and advances towards the Hedjaz Railway. British mine-sweeping sloop mined and sunk; two officers and 64 men lost.

March 1, 1918

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1918, Armentieres, Belgium, Butte du Mesnil, Champagne, Flanders, fortress, France, Germany, Great Britain, HMS Calgarian, Imperial German Navy, mines, Netherlands, Neuve Chapelle, North Channel, North Sea, Portugal, prisoners of war, Reims, Royal Navy, sinking, Vlieland, Zuyderzee

British captures in France during February 312 prisoners. British raid south of Armentières; many German raids in Flanders, particularly on the Portuguese front near Neuve Chapelle. German attacks renewed at the Butte du Mesnil; a footing gained in positions captured by the French on February 13. Fighting on the Reims front; Germans gain an outer work near La Pompelle Fort, but lose it the next day. H.M. armed merchant cruiser Calgarian torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast; 21 officers and 46 men lost. German destroyer and two mine-sweepers sunk in a minefield off Vlieland, near entrance of Zuyder Zee.

January 20, 1918

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1918, Aegean Sea, aeroplanes, Battle of Imbros, casualties, Dardanelles, Germany, Great Britain, HMS Lizard, HMS M28, HMS Raglan, HMS Tigress, Imbros, Imperial German Navy, Midilli, mines, North Sea, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Navy, Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Navy, sinking, SMS Breslau, SMS Goeben, Turkey

Naval engagement off Imbros; Goeben and Breslau emerge from the Straits and sink H.M.S. Raglan and a small monitor (M.28); south of Imbros Breslau manœuvred by H.M. destroyers Lizard and Tigress into a minefield and sunk, while Goeben, flying for safety with four enemy destroyers and an old Turkish cruiser, strikes a mine and is beached at Nagara Point, where naval aircraft attack her. Two German destroyers mined and destroyed in the North Sea; 17 survivors.

December 23, 1917

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1917, Austria-Hungary, casualties, Col del Rosso, Germany, Great Britain, HMS Stephen Furness, Imperial German Navy, Ireland, Irish Sea, Italy, mines, Netherlands, North Sea, prisoners of war, Royal Navy, sinking, submarine, Val Bella, Val Frenzela, Valstagna

Austrian success in the Frenzela Valley, taking Val Bella and Col del Rosso, a mile nearer Valstagna; enemy claim 9,000 prisoners. Admiralty announce H.M.S. Stephen Furness torpedoed and sunk by German submarine in Irish Channel; 6 officers and 95 men lost. Three British destroyers mined or torpedoed off Dutch coast; 13 officers and 180 men lost.

October 17, 1917

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1917, Baltic, Battle of Moon Sound, casualties, Estonia, Germany, Great Britain, HMS Mary Rose, HMS Strongbow, Imperial German Navy, Latvia, mines, Norway, Riga, Royal Navy, Russia, Russian Navy, Scotland, Shetland, sinking, Slava, SS Antilles, submarine, United States Navy, United States of America

Fighting in the Gulf of Riga; Germans having forced Irben Strait, the southern entrance, press Russian naval forces back to Moon Sound with loss of Russian battleship, Slava; two enemy trawlers destroyed by fire, and two torpedo-boats blown up in Russian minefield. Two British destroyers, Mary Rose and Strongbow, convoying 12 Scandinavian merchantmen, attacked by two fast and heavily armed German raiders between Shetland and Norwegian coast and sunk with nine of the escorted vessels; 88 lost on the Mary Rose and 47 on the Strongbow. American transport, Antilles, homeward bound, torpedoed and sunk; 67 out of 167 on board lost.

October 15, 1917

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1917, Abro, Abruka, casualties, Estonia, Germany, Great Britain, HMS Begonia, Imperial German Navy, Latvia, mines, Oesel, Operation Albion, prisoners of war, Riga, Royal Navy, Ruhno, Russia, Saaremaa, sinking, SS Champagne

German progress on Oesel Island; part of Russian garrison escape, but 3,500 prisoners claimed; German warships land detachments on Islands of Runo and Abro in the Gulf of Riga. Admiralty announce mine-sweeping sloop, Begonia, believed lost with all hands, and armed mercantile cruiser, Champagne, torpedoed and sunk with loss of five officers and 51 men.

October 12, 1917

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1917, Aisne, Baltic, Battle of Passchendaele, Belgium, British Empire, Canada, Canadian Prime Minister, Chevreux, Estonia, First Battle of Passchendaele, Flanders, France, Germany, Great Britain, Houthulst Forest, Hurtebise, Imperial German Navy, Latvia, mines, Oesel, Operation Albion, Passchendaele, prisoners of war, Riga, Russia, Saaremaa, Second Battle of the Aisne, Sir Douglas Haig, Sir Robert Borden, weather

Marshal Haig attacks again on a six-mile front along the Passchendaele ridge as far as Houthulst Forest; some objectives gained, but progress interrupted by bad weather; nearly 1,000 prisoners; German attack on the Aisne in the Hurtebise-Chevreux sector gains a temporary footing in an advanced line. German troops occupy a greater part of Island of Oesel at entrance of Gulf of Riga; large naval forces take part in operation; Russians report a German Dreadnought runs into a minefield. Sir Robert Borden forms a Coalition Government in Canada.

September 1, 1917

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1917, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Jugla, communications, Daugava, Denmark, Dvina, Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo, France, Germany, Great Britain, Havrincourt, Ikskile, Imperial German Navy, Italy, Jutland, Latvia, mines, Monte San Gabriele, North Sea, Petrograd, railway, Riga, Royal Navy, Russia, sinking, Slovenia, St Petersburg

Germans cross the Dvina at Uexküll, 18 miles above Riga, and threaten the Riga-Petrograd railway. British lose and regain advanced posts near Havrincourt. Italian pressure on Mte. S. Gabriele growing. British light forces sink four German mine-sweepers off coast of Jutland.

August 16, 1917

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1917, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Hill 70, Battle of Langemarck, Battle of Passchendaele, Belgium, British Prime Minister, Flanders, Focsani, food, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hill 70, Imperial German Navy, Langemarck, Lens, Lloyd George, mines, North Sea, Ocna, prisoners of war, Romania, Royal Navy, Slanic, Steenbeek, submarine, Susitza, Ypres

British attack south-east and east of Ypres, from Glencorse Wood to Langemarck; Langemarck taken and 1,800 prisoners; French cross the Steenbeek. Furious German counter-attacks at Lens beaten back. Enemy attacks near Ocna in region of Slanic, in the Susitza Valley and in the Focsani area repulsed by Rumanians. Destroyer action in the German Bight; German destroyer and two minesweepers badly damaged. Prime Minister’s statement on the war position; figures of increased construction of ships, decreased losses by submarine and decreased food consumption given.

August 14, 1917

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1917, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Passchendaele, Battle of Pilkem Ridge, Belgium, China, English Channel, Germany, Great Britain, mines, peace, Pope Benedict XV, religion, Royal Navy, sinking, Steenbeek

Further British progress on the right bank of the Steenbeek River. Admiralty announce British destroyer strikes a mine in the Channel and sinks. China declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary. Peace proposals by the Pope announced sent to the belligerent Governments.