Western Front
A member of the Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corp in her tent at Crecy Forest with her pet dog: © IWM (Q 11067):
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Germany: Ludendorff receives Air Service expansion plan for July 1, 1918 (Until April 1 1919, he approves 300 more planes per month (to 2,300) but actual production average 1,088.
No 104 Squadron (arrived May 20) joins RAF strategic bombing campaign with 10-plane attack on Metz-Sablon railways; fighter interceptions (1 shot down) and heavy, accurate anti-aircraft fire over objective. 23 DH sorties flown vs Hagendingen (June 8, 9 and 13); cement works badly damaged.
British troops led by a band march past Major-General Arthur Solly-Flood near Famechon, France: © IWM (Q 8903):
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Australian soldiers prepare to start a 440-yard race at a sports meet in France:
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A French Renault FT-17 tank near May-en-Multien: © IWM (Q 49092):
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A Royal Engineers diver in a diving suit to repair the foundations of a bridge at Watten, France: © IWM (Q 8898):
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Eastern Front
German Expeditionary force to the Caucasus lands at Poti (Georgia).
Russian Bolshevik Government order Entente forces in North Russia to leave the country: 3,000 troops ordered north from Petrograd while Moscow and Nolga workers and peasants called up on June 14.
Volga: Czechs take Samara, White KOMUCH (‘Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly’) Government established.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Britain: US Ambassador’s wife launches 26,000t carrier HMS
Eagle (ex-Chilean battleship
Almirante Cochrane redesigned by end 1917 as first ‘island type’ carrier) at Newcastle.
Aircraft carrier ‘HMS
Eagle’ was converted from a World War One battleship hull and consequently retained such features of the period: massive weight and slow speed:
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North Sea: Areas A and C of Northern Barrage begun.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: British advance north of Jaffa; 7th Indian Division (267 casualties) storms two low hills 1 mile from sea, taking 110 PoWs and 7 Mgs.
Ottoman prisoners captured by the Black Watch and Indian troops: © IWM (Q 12488):
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Arabia: Arab raid on Hejaz railway near Toweira (105 miles north-west of Medina).
Political, etc
Georgia: Georgian Government sign peace treaty with Germany.
United Kingdom: Arrival in London of Sir R. Borden and Mr. W. Massey (Canadian and New Zealand Premiers).
Turkey: Government recognizes independent Armenia and Georgia by ratifying peace treaties; Armenia to let Turkish troops through. Ludendorff refuses to recognize treaties on June 10 and 11.
United States: A solar eclipse observed at Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the United States Navy.
The total solar eclipse occurs across the Pacific, starting in southern Japan and traveling across most of the U.S.:
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Report shows record production at American shipyards, which produced 71 ships in May. Total tonnage of ships produced surpassed British production by 200,000 tons.
Netherlands: Prisoners of War Conference at the Hague opens.