Diary August 31, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, August 31, 1915: Southern Fronts Italy: Mussolini called up aged 32, joins 11th Bersaglieri training at Brescia, arrives at front on September 16. Albania: Serb troops at …
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Diary August 30, 1915
Diary for Monday, August 30, 1915: Sea War U-boats ordered not to sink liners without warning and to allow crews and passengers time to abandon ship. No neutral ships to …
Diary August 29, 1915
Diary for Sunday, August 29, 1915: Western Front Argonne: Fierce artillery duel. Eastern Front Baltic Provinces: Niemenarmee storms Friedrichstadt bridgehead south of river Dvina. Western Russia: Germans storm Lipsk, 20 …
Diary August 28, 1915
Diary for Saturday, August 28, 1915: Eastern Front Ludendorff orders Tenth Army advance on Vilna. Air War France: German air raid on Compiegne. Politics Russia: Foreign and War Ministers say …
Diary August 27, 1915
Diary for Friday, August 27, 1915: Eastern Front Falkenhayn orders divisions from Mackensen to Danube despite Hindenburg and Ludendorff’s opposition; another 10 divisions follow later. Galicia: Austrian ‘Black Yellow Offensive’ …
Diary August 26, 1915
Diary for Thursday, August 26, 1915: Eastern Front Poland: Gallwitz occupies Bialystok (110 miles (ca. 177 km) northeast of Warsaw), Eichhorn occupies Fort Olita on Niemen. Bugarmee crosses Brest-Kovel road. …
Diary August 25, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, August 25, 1915: Air War Germany: 62 French bombers (2 lost by anti-aircraft fire) attack Dillingen steelworks near Trier using converted 155 mm artillery shells. Eastern Front Poland: …
Diary August 24, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, August 24, 1915: Southern Front Italian Front: Austrian counter-offensive. Sea War East Africa: Royal Navy C-in-C reports 2 planes and 2 guns landed at Mombasa, 150 men …
Diary August 23, 1915
Diary for Monday, August 23, 1915: Sea War Channel: Dover Patrol monitors shell Zeebrugge and Knocke. Adriatic: German U-boats U34 and U35 reach Cattaro after leaving Heligoland (August 4), sail …
Diary August 22, 1915
Diary for Sunday, August 22, 1915: Sea War North Sea: 2 French destroyers sink German A15 coastal torpedo boat near Ostend (night August 22-23). Western Front Vosges: French gains include …
Diary August 21, 1915
Diary for Saturday, August 21, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli, Suvla bridgehead – Battle of Scimitar Hill and Western Hills: 4 British divisions fail to break through, lose 5,300 casualties, but …
Diary August 20, 1915
Diary for Friday, August 20, 1915: Home Fronts Germany: In Reichstag Liebknecht demands immediate peace talks and votes alone against a new war credit. Britain: Munitions Inventions Department of 20 …
Diary August 19, 1915
Diary for Thursday, August 19, 1915: Sea War Baltic: Submarine E1 torpedoes battlecruiser Moltke in Gulf of Riga, she returns to Kiel at 15 kts. Russian gunboat Sivach sunk. German …
Diary August 18, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, August 18, 1915: Western Front Vosges: French storm trenches on Ablain-Angres road, but Germans retake it next day. French storm trenches on Schratzmännele crest and take the …
Diary August 17, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, August 17, 1915: Home Fronts Germany claims 2 million PoWs (330,000 Anglo-French-Belgian). Actually 726,694 Russians (August 10); Austria has 699,254 (September 1). Russia: Special Councils of Defense …
