A Century On: A Diary of the Great War

- This morning General Plettenberg requests that the attack to be launched by Winckler's Division and 4th Division be delayed by one day...

- The French 11th Division arrives today south of Ypres, and assists an attack by the French XVI Corps against the enemy lines near the Comi...

- The weather at Ypres today is cloudy with poor visibility, impairing the ability of artillery observers to accurately direct fire on enemy...

- The weather turns for the worse today on the Ypres battlefield, with falling temperatures and heavy mist.  A French counterattack by XVI C...

- At Ypres German attacks are concentrated along the front on both sides of the Ypres-Comines Canal on the southeastern face of the salient,...

- In Flanders General d'Urbal recieves instructions from General Foch that, as per communications from Joffre, the possibility of a deci...

- At Ypres the day is cold and wet, mist turning to rain in the afternoon.  The British and French notice a distant lessening in the frequen...