THE GREAT WAR – SEPTEMBER 1917

Passchendaele

22^nd to 26^th Sept       Battle of Menin Road Ridge

22^nd September         Harry Patch wounded at Pilkem Ridge

26^th to 27^th Sept          Battle of Polygon Wood

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Eastern Front

1^st to 3^rd Sept              Battle of Jugla

7^th September            Russian General Kornilov’s coup fails

Sept to Oct                  Operation Albion

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Other Fronts

12^th September         French Alexandre Ribot resigns as Prime Minister

17^th September          Zeppelin Staaken ‘Giant’ Heavy bombers join London bombing raids

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The Balkans

3^rd September           Romanian Ecaterina Teodoroiu is killed leading her platoon into battle

September                  Flora Sandes needed a further operation to remove embedded shrapnel

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The Caucasus and the Middle East

28^th to 29^th Sept         Battle of Ramadi

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