Western Front
Battle of the Somme: day begins with attempts by both sides to advance, which ends in failure even after hand-to-hand fighting.
Later, British troops capture east section of Regina Trench north of Thiepval. French troops capture some trenches northeast of Lesboeufs, while French capture several German trenches north-east of Lesboeufs.
French anti-aircraft guns at Villers-Bretonneux at the Somme: http://imgur.com/HqSP4I2* © IWM (Q 79000)

Eastern Front
Transylvania: Second Battle of Oituz (until November 15).
Serbs advance towards Monastir; carry Chuke heights, etc.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Baltic: During attempted raid (night November 10-11) on Russian patrol lines in Gulf of Finland, near Reval, 7 wartime-built German torpedo boats (V-75, S-57, V-72, G-90, S-58, S-59 and V-76) out of 11 (10th Flotilla) sink in unsuspected minefields (400 survivors), largest single action destroyer loss; Admiral Langemarck relieved of command.
A German S or V (German torpedo boats were designated according to manufacturer, in this case, Schichau or Vulkan) type torpedo boat: http://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/wp...V-destroyer.jpg
North Sea: RNAS seaplanes attack Ostend and Zeebrugge (and on November 15).
Britain: The King informed that Prime minister Asquith wants Beatty to succeed Jellicoe in command of Grand Fleet, the monarch approves heartily (November 22).

Political, etc.
Germany: German Note to Greek Government re: War Material
France: French government prepares a 100-page report alleging German atrocities in prisoner of war camps.
Sweeden: Nobel Prize for Literature for 1915, which had been held in reserve, is given to Romain Rolland. Verner von Heidenstam wins for 1916.
Greece: Review of troops by Greek National Government at Salonika.

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Western Front
Battle of the Somme: Battle of the Ancre Heights ends (also listed for yesterday). British artillery preparation begins, British infantry capture Farmers Road near Regina Trench.
French recapture most of Saillisel, and repulse German attack at Deniecourt.

Eastern Front
German and Austro-Hungarian counterattack regain ground around Halych, reversing some Russian gains during the Brusilov offensive.
Dobruja: Russo-Romanians occupy Topalu (right bank Danube) and advance south.
Transylvania: Second Battle of Tirgu Jiu: in Group Kuehn’s attack Lieutenant Rommel’s Wuerttemberg Mountain Company captures Mt Lescului (3,937 ft) and descends to plain on November 12.

Southern Front
Macedonia: Serbian troops defeat Bulgarian counterattacks around Polog, Macedonia, resulting in the capture of 1000 Bulgarian prisoners.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Egypt: 6 RFC aircraft apiece raid Maghdaba (100 miles east of Ismailia) and Beersheba. German aircraft bombs Cairo (and on November 13 with 39 casualties) and Suez (November 17) but little damage.

Political, etc.
United Kingdom: J. L. Garvin, British journalist, states, “The Allies in the East have perpetrated almost every blunder left to them to commit…”
Austria-Hungary: Austria-Hungary announces that Emperor Franz Joseph is suffering from catarrh, but otherwise is carrying out his duties.
United States: The newly-created Kingdom of Arab Countries asks the U.S. State Department for formal recognition.

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Western Front
Battle of the Somme: German attack near Berny (north-east of Ablaincourt) repulsed.

Eastern Front
Transylvania: Second Battle of Tirgu Jiu: Rumanian First Army retreats in Jiu and Aluta Valleys.
In the past few days, German attacks against Russian lines N. of Baranovichi leads to the capture of 4000 Russian prisons & 27 machine guns.
Failure of Russo-Romanians on Cerna Voda and retreat to Dunarea.

Southern Front
Macedonia: French and Serbs capture Iven (15 miles east of Monastir).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Shiraz (South Persia) occupied by British forces; Sykes organises 3,700 South Persian Rifles and 6 guns by December 1.

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: Portuguese troops occupy Lulindi.
British defeat Germans at Malangali.

Political, etc.
France: Evening dress is banned at Parisian operas that are subsidized by the French government.
United States: (Perhaps yesterday) Percival Lowell, American businessmen & astronomer who started the search for Planet X (Pluto), passed away: http://imgur.com/Y5fJEuL
Mexico: Count Bernstorff to German Mexico City Minister ‘The Imperial Government would see with the greatest of pleasure the Mexican Government’s consent to … a [U-boat] base in its territory’.
Netherlands: Dutch railways considers curtailing their services due to difficulty in obtaining coal from Britain, Germany, and Belgium.

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Western Front
Battle of the Somme: Battle of the Ancre begins (until November 18): with 10 divisions, 5 tanks and 282 heavy guns in wet fog at 0545 hours Fifth Army (Gough) storms Beaumont Hamel (1,200 PoWs) also St Pierre Divion and Beaucourt in mile-deep advance.
30,000lb ammonal mine detonated at Hawthorn Crater; c.360 men of 3rd Battalion German 62nd Regiment buried alive. The crater after capture: http://imgur.com/ijgZT6c* © IWM (Q 2006)
Operation until November 14 directed by Lieutenant-Colonel Freyberg, RND (thrice wounded and wins VC). Australian-born writer and RND Coy Company Commander F S Kelly killed at Beaucourt.
British soldier bringing in a captured wounded German during the Battle of Ancre at the Somme: http://imgur.com/cqp0pkZ* © IWM (Q 4502)
French official cameraman filming a wounded British soldier at the Somme: http://imgur.com/b1dPgJy* © IWM (Q 4504)
Frederick Septimus Kelly, Australian/British musician & rower who won gold in the 1908 Olympics, is KIA at the Somme: http://imgur.com/g1AOwFo

Eastern Front
Transylvania: Second Battle of Tirgu Jiu: Falkenhayn takes Kimpulung south of Toerzburg and retakes railhead south of Vulcan Pass.

Southern Front
Serbia: After fog lifts Serb troops reach ridges east of Crna and Monastir taking 600 German PoWs, [another source claims 16 artillery guns and 1000 prisoners,] forcing General Winckler to evacuate Kenali valley position (held since early October) during night November 14-15.

Asiatic and Egyptian
Egypt: Cairo bombed; little damage done.
One flight of No.14 Squadron, together with a Company of the Bedfordshire Regiment to act as aerodrome guard, are sent to the Red Sea port of Rabigh to assist Arab forces under the control of the Sherif of Mecca and Colonel T.E. Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia').

Political, etc.
Germany: German casualties since the start of the war now numbers 3,755,693 men killed, wounded, captured, and missing. Note: I am unsure of the source of this. It might be based on the fantastical claims of British Intelligence, which, throughout the war, and even to this day, grossly exaggerated the German casualty rate.]
United States: “Behind the Screen,” a short film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...%281916%29.webm
Belgium: Désiré-Joseph Mercier, a Belgian cardinal, publishes a protest against German deportations and forced labor of Belgian civilians.

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Western Front
Battle of the Somme: British 190th Brigade (63rd Royal Navy Division) with 2 Tank Mk I capture Beaucourt (Ancre) with 400 PoWs (5000 overall in this phase of the battle), driving major salient into German Ancre defences. Author Lieutenant-Sergeant H H Munro (‘Saki’) killed, aged 46, by sniper at Beaumont-Hamel. His last words: “Put that bloody cigarette out!” http://imgur.com/IMLaY1R
RFC ranges 157 German batteries; No 15 Squadron observers direct gunfire that annihilates c.1350 German infantry.
German attack at Ablaincourt and Pressoir largely repulsed.

Eastern Front
Romanians retreat south of Vulkan Pass; and below Torzburg Pass; severe fighting in Prahova Valley (south of Predeal Pass).
Transylvania: Second Battle of Tirgu Jiu: German and Austro-Hungarian troops pierce Romania lines at Jiul Valley and advance 14 miles beyond the Romanian border.

Southern Front
Macedonia: Allies advance on Monastir.
Bulgars retreat on River Bistritza.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Aegean: U-73 mine (12 laid on October 28) in Zea Channel sinks 12,009t French armed liner Burdigala. This ship was formerly the German-owned Kaiser Friedrich.

Political, etc.
United Kingdom: Publication of White Paper re: U.S.A. "Black List" Protest of July 28.
Pensions Bill introduced.
Russia: Duma attacks on Prime Minister and by implication Tsarina, ‘Is this folly, or is this treason?’ (Miliukov).
Polish members of the Russian Duma denounce the German creation of the Kingdom of Poland.
United States: U.S government protests the German deportation and forced labor of Belgian civilians.
Special, 1910: Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship, flying from a makeshift deck on the USS*Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia, US.

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Western Front
Lieutenant-General E W von Hoeppner appointed C-in-C Air Force; Kommandierender General der Luftstreitkräfte (Kogenluft). Chief of Staff is Colonel Thomsen, previously Feldflugchef.
French gunners dragging a 155 mm artillery up a steep slope in Seine-et-Oise: http://imgur.com/p4V6Can* © IWM (Q 78089)
British seaplanes bombard Zeebrugge and Ostend.
Battle of the Somme: German counter-attack north of Chaulnes.

Eastern Front
Russia: Brusilov says ‘Rumania is a difficult ally’. His Southwest Front has only 412 heavy guns (over 122mm).
Transylvania: Second Battle of Tirgu Jiu: Romanian retreat continued; Falkenhayn brings heavy guns through Toerzburg Pass and captures Tirgu Jiu. He is now 20-25 miles inside Rumania.

Southern Front
Serbia: Advance on Monastir: French and Serbs capture monastery of Jaratok; French and Russians at River Viro (four miles south of Monastir).

Asiatic and Egyptian
Egypt: British advance into Sinai begins.
Persia: Tunnel through Taurus range on Baghdad railway pierced.
Third Affair of Hafiz Kor (North-West Frontier of India).

Political, etc.
Germany: 1918 conscript class, all under 19 year, begins to join for training; malnutrition a problem.
United Kingdom: Appointment of Food Controller and control of bread foreshadowed.
France: CHANTILLY CONFERENCE: (Joffre presiding) Allies discuss (a) 1917 offensives on Western, Eastern and Southern fronts to be timed from first fortnight of February 1917 to cause maximum dispersal of German forces; (b) the relations between Governments and Staffs; (c) Greece; (d) Poland. (Conference continued on 16th.)
Russia: Grand Duke Nicholas warns Tsar of Tsarina and Rasputin’s harmful influence. http://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/wp...oyal-family.jpg
Poland: Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, passed away: http://imgur.com/GEH0kXX
United States: Standard Oil Company of California institutes an 8-hour workday for its workers for “humanitarian” reasons.

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Western Front
Haig asks for an extra 20 fighter squadrons by the spring of 1917. RFC capture first Albatros D-1 fighter, forced down by a B.E. 2. http://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/wp...Albatros-DI.jpg
Each BEF army forms anti-aircraft group under one commander with 36-64 guns each (until November 27).
Battle of the Somme: RFC helps knock out at least 10 German artillery guns (65 batteries engaged), destroys 3 German aircraft; 6 Martinsydes bomb Hirson station (Belgium). German night raid destroys 21 French aircraft at Cachy, 90 miles away.
British advance east of Beaucourt but lose some ground east of Butte de Warlencourt.
French regain ground east of Pressoir.

Eastern Front
Transylvania: Second Battle of Tirgu Jiu: Romanian retreat continuing; severe fighting south-east of Tolgyes, near Campulung, and in valleys of Aluta and Jiu.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arrabia: Six No 14 Squadron RFC aircraft land at Rabegh to support Arabs; airfield built.

Naval and Overseas Operations
A war aeroplane is used for the first time in India, as they are used by the British to beat back a raid from the Afghan frontier. Ultimately, this results in the defeat of Pathans near Shabkadar (Peshawar valley).

Political, etc.
Germany: First of 11 German armored car MG platoons formed, mainly for Eastern Front.
German blockade-runner submarine Deutschland leaves New London, Connecticut after conducting trade with the U.S.
Russia: Russia declares the creation of the Kingdom of Poland by Germany and Austria-Hungary as illegal and void.
Poland: German governors in Poland issue an edict recognizing Judaism as a religion in the civil law.
United States: Luis Muñoz Rivera, Puerto Rican writer and journalist who advocated for Puerto Rico’s autonomy, passed away: http://imgur.com/cOFAKsk
Some New York hotels & restaurants announce that they will postpone New Year’s Eve celebration to Jan 1st, as Dec 31 falls on Sunday when alcohol is restricted.
60 border troops on the US-Mexican border desert their posts due to cold weather. They are all found and arrested.
Greece: Allies demand dismissal of Central Powers Ministers and surrender of war material.

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