Diary WWI

Diary for Friday, October 8, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli: Hamilton’s Suvla landings dispatch; storm damages Anzac and Suvla piers, more damage on October 27-31. India­: Minister and Viceroy consider asking […]

Diary for Thursday, October 7, 1915: Western Front Champagne: French advance southeast of Tahure, French war poet Auguste Compagnon killed, aged 36 (Poemes et Lettres des Tranchees published 1916). Southern

Diary for Wednesday, October 6, 1915: Southern Fronts AUSTRO-GERMAN INVASION OF SERBIA: Kovess’ Austrian Third Army secure footholds south of river Sava west of Sabac. Demon­stration at Orsova close to

Diary for Tuesday, October 5, 1915: Southern Fronts Salonika: 13,000 French and British troops land. Serbia: Austro-German artillery bombardment begins including c. 170 guns (nearly 40 x 305mm and 420mm

Diary for Monday, October 4, 1915: Eastern Front Western Russia: Russian Tenth Army Lake Drisviati-Smogoni offensive fails until October 7. Politics Anglo-French ultimatum to Bulgaria. Allied Ambassadors leave Sofia following

Diary for Sunday, October 3, 1915: Air War Western Front: British kite-balloons range successfully on 10 targets. French bomb Metz. Western Front Loos: Germans recapture part of Hohenzollern Redoubt from

Diary for Saturday, October 2, 1915: Air War Germany: First German ‘Giant’ heavy bomber ferried to Eastern Front. Western Front: French airship Alsace shot down. 62 unescorted French bombers (2

Diary for Friday, October 1, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: Retail Food Price RFP up 5% to 30%. Munitions Ministry now in command of 979 factories, recommends weekly wages (October 22).

Diary for Thursday, September 30, 1915: Western Front Sir J French and Kitchener Order of the Day congratulates BEF. King sends a message to Sir John. Champagne: Minor French gains.

Diary for Wednesday, September 29, 1915: Middle East Mesopotamia: Townshend’s cavalry occupy Kut but ships stuck in falling river for two days. Western Front Flanders: Germans capture British trenches at

Diary for Tuesday, September 28, 1915: Middle East Mesopotamia – Battle of Kut: after night flank march, Townshend (1,233 casualties) storms Turk defences (700 casualties) at Es Sinn, taking 1,153

Diary for Monday, September 27, 1915: Western Front Loos: British pushed back in cold and rain between Fosse 8 and Hohenzollern Redoubt but Guards Division storms Pit 14 and chalk

Diary for Sunday, September 26, 1915: Western Front Loos: 2 BEF reserve ‘New Army’ divisions (21st and 24th) attack too late and are shattered (8,246 casualties in 3 1/2 hours)

Diary for Saturday, September 25, 1915: Western Front Champagne – FRENCH AUTUMN OFFENSIVE: with 16 divisions with flags flying and bands playing at 0915 hours in drenching rain (until September

Diary for Friday, September 24, 1915: Southern Fronts Serbia: Austrian aircraft bomb Pozharevats. Drina crossing attempts foiled. Greece: Kitchener suggests British 10th and 11th Divisions be sent from Suvla bridgehead

Diary for Thursday, September 23, 1915: Western Front Joffre Order of the Day to ‘Soldiers of the Republic … … Your elan will prove irresistible’. Eastern Front Brusilov’s 4th Division

Diary for Wednesday, September 22, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli: Australian casualties to date 19,183 soldiers. Syria: Turk preparations for attack on Egypt reported. Eastern Front Tsar’s stern order to restore

Diary for Tuesday, September 21, 1915: Home Fronts Germany: 1915 field service uniform introduced. Austria: Army adopts field grey in September. Britain: Third War Budget income tax up 40%, 50%

Diary for Monday, Septenmber 20, 1915: African Fronts East Africa – Action of Longido, just west across German border: 80 dug-in German soldiers repel 450 British. King’s African Rifles carry

Diary for Sunday, September 19, 1915: Eastern Front Falkenhayn forces Hindenburg to release more than 7 divisions, Kaiser backs him. Galicia: Army Group Böhm-Ermolli (Colonel-General) formed from Austrian Second Army