Anniversaries – Page 8 – First World War Centenary News Archive

July 5, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: King George’s Fund for Sailors founded

5th July 1917: King George’s Fund for Sailors (today Seafarers UK) was founded during the First World War to help seafarers’ families in need.

July 9, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: HMS Vanguard explodes, killing more than 800

9th July 1917: The British battleship, HMS Vanguard, blew up in Scapa Flow, killing 843 crewmen.

July 31, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: Third Battle of Ypres/Passchendaele

31st July 1917: British-led forces began an offensive in Flanders that is still mired in controversy.

October 24, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: Battle of Caporetto

24th October 1917: The Central Powers defeat the Italian Army, achieving a significant breakthrough after more than two years of fighting on the Isonzo river.

October 31, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: Battle of Beersheba

31st October 1917: Allied fortunes in the Sinai campaign turned with victory under a new commander, General Sir Edmund Allenby.

November 2, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: The Balfour Declaration

2nd November 1917: Britain pledged its support for the establishment of a ‘national home for the Jewish people’ in Palestine, in a letter written by Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour.

November 7, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: The Bolshevik Revolution

7th November 1917: Lenin’s Bolsheviks seized power in Russia, ousting the Provisional Government that had replaced Tsarist rule after Nicholas II’s abdication.

November 10, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: Third Battle of Ypres/Passchendaele ends

10th November 1917: Canadian troops completed the capture of Passchendaele, ending the Allied offensive in Flanders known also as the Third Battle of Ypres.

December 7, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: US declares war on Austria-Hungary

7th December 1917: America extended its First World War involvement, declaring war on Austria-Hungary.

December 9, 2017 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Anniversary: Jerusalem captured

9th December 1917: Jerusalem fell to British-led forces on 9 December 1917 with their commander, General Sir Edmund Allenby, formally entering the Holy City on foot two days later.