Year 1915

Diary for Monday, July 12, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli – Helles bridgehead: 12,748 Allied soldiers take a few trenches and 600 prisoners until next day for 3,900 casualties; British 155th […]

Diary for Sunday, July 11, 1915: Sea War East Africa: German light cruiser Königsberg disabled in Rufiji river after 90­min shelling by British monitors Mersey and Severn with Farman spotter

Diary for Saturday, July 10, 1915: Middle East Armenia – Battle of Malazgirt (until July 26): Oganovski’s advance (until July 16) reversed by Abdul Kerim‘s 5-division counter­attack (July 20-26) and

Diary for Friday, July 9, 1915: African Fronts GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA SURRENDERS. Officers retain swords and paroled, NCOs and men interned. Paroled reservists allowed back to farms. South Africa annexes

Diary for Thursday, July 8, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli: Liman refuses to return to Constantinople, postpones Enver-suggested handover to Goltz from June 26. Western Front Vosges: French recapture Hill 627

Diary for Wednesday, July 7, 1915: Western Front Joffre tells Allied conference at Chantilly that simultaneous attack on all four fronts would be the best strategy. Artois: French advance at

Diary for Tuesday, July 6, 1915: Western Front Entire BEF now equipped with sack-like ‘Hypo Helmet‘, a crude counter-measure against tear gas (T-Stoff) shells. Flanders: Kitchener visits the front until

Diary for Monday, July 5, 1915: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Italian Second and Third Armies attack from 1800 hours on whole line from Podgora to Doberdo Plateau (Carso) with 6:1 superiority,

Diary for Sunday, July 4, 1915: Western Front Argonne: Crown Prince’s attack diminishing, but captures La Fille Morte mill on July 7. Southern Fronts Albania: Serb punitive expedition enters Durazzo,

Diary for Saturday, July 3, 1915: Western Front Flanders: German raid on advanced trenches on Verlorenhoek road (Ypres). Meuse: German attacks on Calonne trench, Meuse heights. Sea War North Sea:

Diary for Friday, July 2, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: Munitions of War Act passed and £250 million War Loan Act; 46,000 women munition workers enrolled in first week. Munitions Tribunals

Diary for Thursday, July 1, 1915: Western Front French Army peak mobilized strength with 4,978,000 men plus 152,000 released to industry and agriculture but recallable. In July first 180,000 French

Diary for Wednesday, June 30, 1915: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Main Italian infantry assault begins along 21-mile front but only gains, for fearful losses, a small bridgehead east of the river

Diary for Tuesday, June 29, 1915: Eastern Front Poland: Mackensen advances between river Vistula and Bug, reaches Tomaszow next day. Western Front France – Petains memo to GOG : ‘The

Diary for Monday, June 28, 1915: Secret War Britain: Churchill and Lloyd George watch Killen­-Strait barbed-wire cutter tractor, Wormwood Scrubs, London. They also see Stokes mortar demo there (on June

Diary for Sunday, June 27, 1915: Southern Fronts Isonzo: Italian Third Army has pushed Austrians up slopes south of Mt San Michele (900 ft (ca. 274 m)) and gained bridgehead

Diary for Saturday, June 26, 1915: Eastern Front Galicia: Lechitski repulses German attacks on Bukaczowce-Halicz front in east but retreats to river Gnila Lipa, while Südarmee occupies Halicz and Mackensen

Diary for Friday, June 25, 1915: Sea War Dardanelles: With balloon spotting, battleship Lord Nelson (55 shells) again sets Chanak alight. Air War Western Front: French aircraft bomb Douai rail

Diary for Thursday, June 24, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: War Munition Volunteer Scheme begins, 6­-month posting in any firm chosen by Ministry. Western Front Joffre and Field Marshal French agree

Diary for Wednesday, June 23, 1915: Sea War North Sea – First Q-ship success: U40 torpedoed and sunk off Aberdeen by British submarine C26, towed in action by decoy trawler