October 1917

The following events occurred in October 1917: and Desert Mounted Corps of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force attacked and captured Beersheba, Syria, from Ottoman forces, ending the stalemate in Southern Palestine and starting the Southern Palestine offensive.

Some 1,947 Ottoman troops were taken prisoner and another estimated 1,000 were killed or wounded.

British casualties were 171 killed.

[149] The capture of Beersheba was clinched with a rare (by this date) mounted charge by the Australian Mounted Division.

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Mata Hari , former famed exotic dancer, executed in France for spying.
Battlefield after the first day of fighting at the First Battle of Passchendaele . Photo by Frank Hurley .
British soldiers going up to the front line during the Battle of Broodseinde . Photo by Ernest Brooks .
Ruined street in Poelcappelle , Belgium .
" Miracle of the Sun on front page of Ilustração Portuguesa, 29 October 1917.
Indian artillery soldiers at Battle of Mahiwa .
British soldiers pushing an 18-pounder field gun through mud near Langemark , Belgium .
Russian pre-dreadnought Slava sinking during Battle of Moon Sound .
Suffragist Alice Paul, arrested in Washington, D.C.
Entrenched Italian troops along the Piave river during the Battle of Caporetto .
Poster showing the members of the Bolshevik Party that headed the October Revolution in Petrograd .
British flying ace Arthur Rhys-Davids .
Australian troops crossing a flooded battlefield during the Battle of Passchendaele . Photo by Frank Hurley .
Canadian soldiers carry wounded at the Second Battle of Passchendaele .
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando , Prime Minister of Italy
Painting of smoky, cavalry attack
The charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba, 1917 , painted by George Lambert .