Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres (aka the
Battle of Passchendaele): Dead soldiers from a Highlanders regiment at Ypres awaiting burial: © IWM (Q 7814):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...393595411116032
French newsreel showing their I Corps in action at the 3rd Battle of Ypres:
http://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/index/45416
French peasant women working in the Somme fields, retaken from the Germans. The Germans took all livestock (to be honest, that should read, “All the livestock not already confiscated by the French Army”):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...085316487290880
Eastern Front
Commander of the Austro-Hungarian 2nd Army von Bohm-Ermolli at the recapture of Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, Ukraine): © IWM (Q 23983):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...071541063364608
Russians rally and attack Austro-German forces on Zbrucz River; elsewhere Russian retreat continues.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Irish Sea:
UC-44 sunk on
UC-42 mines off Waterford after Room 40 sends bogus signal in code Germans discovered to be breaking. New FFB signal book recovered from wreck by diver-shipwright E C Miller.
Britain: Last 2 of 51 wartime-built R-class destroyers launched (since 14 May 1916), 11 modified R-class also built in 1917. First of 25 V-class destroyers (ordered June-August 1916) come into service (August 1917-June 1918). The ‘Admiralty Modified R’-class destroyer HMS
Tower:
https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...royer.jpg?ssl=1
Political, etc
Russia: General Vasily Gourko arrested at his Petrograd home, kept in
Fortress of Peter and Paul (until September 19) until allowed to sail for England.
Russian Premier Kerensky and other members of the cabinet submit resignations, but the Provisional Government does not accept them.
Statues and antiques worth 1.5 million rubles are stolen from the Senate and Synod building in Petrograd.
France: French accept formation of Czech Army on Western Front (talks since June 20); 2,000 volunteers by November.
France introduces bread rations, with each person receiving 500 grams per day.
United Kingdom: 3,000 Russian troops for Western Front land at Invergordon. King and Queen attend Westminster Abbey 3rd War Anniversary Service. National War Aims committee launched (3,192 constituency meetings by October).
Scandanavia: Norway, Holland: Governments offer shipping to Allies in return for food.
Belgium: Baron de Broqueville resigns as Belgian Minister for War (appointed February 28th, 1914) and succeeds Baron Beyens as Minister for Foreign Affairs (see January 18th, 1916, and January 1st, 1918). Lieut.-General A. de Ceuninck appointed Minister for War (see November 21st, 1918).
United States: Green Corn Rebellion occurs as Oklahomans in Seminole County rise up against the draft. The Green Corn Rebellion is quickly crushed, with three killed and 450 participants arrested.
Minor Allies: Liberia declares war on Germany (see May 5th, 1917 and April 10th, 1918).