[April 19th, 1917] Sinai and Palestine Campaign: Second Battle of Gaza - Turkey repels British assault on Gaza-Beersheba line.
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[November 7th, 1917] Palestine. At dawn, the British attack and capture Tel es Sheria. The Turks withdraw from Gaza, leaving Allenby in control of both Gaza and Beersheba and the territory between them.
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[May 23rd, 1917] WWI: During the Stalemate in Southern Palestine the Raid on the Beersheba to Hafir el Auja railway by Desert Column of British Empire troops, destroys large sections of the railway line linking Beersheba to the main Ottoman desert base.
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A bonus track about the battle of Beersheba would be pretty cool I think
Was this last cavalry charge? The battle for beersheba.
Retracing the footsteps of our heroes at the Battle of Beersheba -- A century after Australian troops stormed out of the Israeli desert to overwhelm the Turkish post, we follow their descendants as they visit the battlefield.
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A knocked out British tank with dead German soldiers next to it in Herenthage Park after the Battle of Langemarck, 1917.
Mark IV (Male) "Hyacinth" of H Battalion, stuck in a German trench while supporting 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment near Ribecourt during the Battle of Cambrai. 20 November 1917
On this day (26 March, 1917), Ottoman soldiers halted the British advance into Palestine at the First Battle of Gaza. The British would eventually overrun Ottoman positions in southern Palestine by November of 1917. Credit: Lost Islamic History
Battle of Sanctuary Woods, September 1917
War is the Real Hell, (circa 1917, Battle of Passchendaele)
Gunners of the Australian 4th Division on a track of duckboard in Château Wood during the Third Battle of Ypres in Belgium. Photograph taken by Frank Hurley on October 29th, 1917 [1024x785]
[1600 x 1200] The Iron-Duke class battleship HMS Benbow leads two of her sister ships in a battle line, 1917
Gunners of the Australian 4th Division on a track of duckboard in Château Wood during the Third Battle of Ypres in Belgium. Photograph taken by Frank Hurley on October 29th, 1917 [1024x785]
A Mark IV tank ditched in a German trench during the Battle of Cambrai, 20 November 1917.
I Died In Hell (Part 1) - Battle of Passchendaele - Jul 31, 1917 – Nov 10, 1917
Destroyed British tank at the 2nd battle of Gaza, 1917
The morning after the First Battle of Passchendaele, with wounded Australian soldiers in the foreground. This photograph is a composite image of four combined negatives, taken by Frank Hurley on October 12th 1917. [5887x6500]
TIL during WWII the British Army set off 19 massive mines underneath the German front lines at the Battle of Messines. The Messines mines' combined explosion at once on 7 June 1917 killed more people than any other non-nuclear man-made explosion in history: 10,000 German soldiers.
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On this day (26 March, 1917), Ottoman soldiers halted the British advance into Palestine at the First Battle of Gaza. The British would eventually overrun Ottoman positions in southern Palestine by November of 1917. Credit: Lost Islamic History
Awesome description of 85th Battalion Nova Scotia Highlanders attack on Hill 145 at Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917 (taken from Vimy The Battle and The Legend by Tim Cook)
The 85th Battalion from Nova Scotia was a Highlander unit that had never seen combat and had not even been issued its kilts, leading to taunting by other Canadian units. It was deeply humiliating for the proud Maritimers, and to date the 85th Battalion had been a labour battalion that had spent far more time digging with shovels than practising with rifles. Now, in the desperation of the stalled attack (on Hill 145), the 85th were ordered to the front.
A bayonet charge over open ground into the mouth of the enemy guns was suicidal. Thirty seconds passed, then a minute. The officers made the gut-wrenching call and gave the order. Over the top. The Germans were initially taken by surprise since it was lunacy for any force to attack without artillery. The Highlanders pushed the pace, gobbling up the ground to close the distance. The enemy's surprised sentries snapped to the danger, Mauser rifle shots ringing out, soon to be followed by machine-gun fire. As the Highlanders charged they let out a blood-curdling battle cry, just as enemy guns began to spew a hail of bullets. Maritimers were punched down by fire, but the survivors refused to go to ground. They tore through the enemy lines on the crest of Hill 145, shooting, stabbing and clubbing the enemy to death.
Within ten mad minutes, the enemy folded in the face of the ferocious advance. The heights of Hill 145 fell to an untried battalion in the most audacious Canadian bayonet charge of the war.
(taken from the book Vimy The Battle and The Legend by Tim Cook)
Last battle of the Battleship Slava , Battle of Muhu, Baltic Sea October 17, 1917 [2000x1660]
CinC of the Grand Fleet, Admiral David Beatty, on board his flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth, welcomes Admiral Hugh Rodman, commander of the US Navy's Battleship Division Nine, December 1917. The US Navy battleships would be integrated into the Grand Fleet as the 6th Battle Squadron. [1600x1173]
Australian soldiers in trenches at the Battle of Polygon Wood, 1917
100 years since the 1917 Battle of Passchendaele - My Great Grandad & bravery medal he received for rescuing a comrade under fire and defeating a sniper single handily. He was later asked to execute a comrade for cowardice but refused and was court martialled for it. A true hero and great man.
Cheems at the third battle of Ypres (1917)
A muddy and exhausted Canadian soldier walks back from the front line after the battle of Vimy Ridge, 1917
Destroyed British Mark 1, this individual tank was nicknamed "Black Arrow", captured by German forces in the battle of Fontaine near Cambrai, 1917.
My wife's great-grandfather; a Welsh miner who was called up and was killed in the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917. I'd really appreciate it if anyone is able to tidy it up.
“Battle of Scarpe. British troops embussing after the fighting at Monchy-le-Preux, which was taken by the King's Royal Rifle Corps and the Rifle Brigade, 37th Division. Arras, 28 April 1917.” By John Warwick Brooke.
Battle of mount Ortigara aftermath, 1917:
British tank manoeuvring over a trench during the Battle of Cambrai, 20 November - 7 December 1917
A Mark IV (Male) tank of 'H' Battalion, 'Hyacinth', ditched in a German trench while supporting 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment near Ribecourt during the Battle of Cambrai, 20 November 1917.
Wounded Canadian and German soldier share a cigarette during Battle of Passchendaele 1917 [800x631]
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