[Sailor Steve]

October 1, 1918


Western Front:

British progress and take ground south of Le Catelet; stiff fighting near Bony and south of Cambrai.

French retake part of St. Quentin.

Germans fall back from Reims-Aisne plateaux; steady French advance in Champagne; Flanders ridge occupied and Ledeghem seized by British.

Battle of the Canal du Nord ends.


Southern Front:

Austrians take defensive measures on their southern frontier in consequence of Bulgarian Armistice.

Berat, Albania, is retaken by Italian forces.


Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters:

Damascus occupied by British and Arab forces; 7,000 prisoners taken.


Naval and Overseas Operations:

Allies establish a net and mine barrage across the Strait of Otranto.

British flag hoisted at Ebeltoft Harbour, Spitsbergen.


Political, etc:

Wages (men and women) Committee begins.

German majority programme issued.

Baron Husarek (Austrian Prime Minister) on situation: open to Peace offers; great row in Reichsrath.

Milk to be controlled in Great Britain.


Air War:

0820 English RAF pilot Cyril Smythe and observer William Barnes, flying Bristol F.2b E2573, shoot down a Fokker D.VII. Victory number 4 for both.

0825 Cyril Smythe and William Barnes score their second kill of the day, shooting down another Fokker D.VII. Victory number 5 for both.

0925 Australian AFC pilot Ernest Davies, in SE.5a D6860, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 3.

1015 German ace Karl bohnenkamp, with Jasta 22, shoots down a DH.9 for victory number 13.

1350 Two French pilots with Spa 152 share in the destruction of a German observation balloon:
Leon Bourjade, victory number 21.
ernest Maunoury, victory number 10

1355 Leon Bourjade and Ernest Maunoury score their second shared kill of the day, another German balloon. Victory number 22 for Bourjade; number 11 for Maunoury.

1620 German ace Oskar Hennrich, with Jasta 46, destroys a British observation balloon for victory number 20.

1620 German ace Eduard von Schleich, with Jasta 23, shoots down a Bréguet 14 for victory number 35.

1640 German ace Josef Veltjens, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 32.

1640 German ace Georg von Hantelmann, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 20.

1710 Canadian RAF ace William Jenkins, flying Sopwith Camel D8147, shoots down a Fokker d.VII for victory number 10.

1710 Thirteen RAF SE.5a pilots from 1 Sqdn share a victory over a Fokker D.VII:
Lt C.W. Aming, E4023, nationality and victory number unknown.
Lt ?? Boyd, C9065, nationality and victory number unknown.
Douglas Cameron, England, H7257, victory number 3.
Lt ?? Dickinson, C1812, nationality and victory number unknown.
2nd Lt W. Joffe B8427, nationality and victory number unknown.
Charles Lavers, England, C9292, victory number 9.
Basil Moody, South Africa, B8501, victory number 7.
Lt F.A.S. Nesbitt, B7881, nationality and victory number unknown.
Lt W. Newby, E1353, nationality and victory number unknown.
Capt W. Pallister, F5473, nationality and victory number unknown.
Lt H. Phinney, D6973, nationality and victory number unknown.
Wallace Smart, Scotland, D6973, victory number 4.
Lt F.M. Squires, C8336, nationality and victory number unknown.

1710 American RAF pilot Cleo Pineau, in Sopwith Camel F3238, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 5.

1715 English RAF ace Reginald Maxwell, in Sopwith Camel C8336, shoots down a DFW C.V for victory number 8.

1755 German ace Otto Schmidt, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down SE.5a B8427 for victory number 17. 2nd Lt W. Joffe, 1 Sqdn RAF, is killed.

1800 French ace Henri Hay de Slade, flying with Spa 149, claims a Gernam two-seater and an "Enemy Aircraft" for victories 16 and 17.

1810 German ace Max Kuhn, in a Fokker D.VII, destroys a French observation balloon for victory number 10.

1915 Max Kuhn scores his second kill of the day, bringing down an American balloon for victory number 11.

1930 American ace Edward Rickenbacker, in SPAD XII S4523, destroys a German observation balloon for victory number 13.

German ace Franz Büchner, with Jasta 13, ahoots down Salmson 2.A2 867 for victory number 38.

German ace Carl Degelow, flying a Fokker D.VII, shoots down SE.5a F5464 for victory number 20.

German ace Josef Jacobs, with Jasta 7, shoots down a DH.9 for victory number 37.