Year 1915

Diary for Saturday, December 11, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: Recruiting rush last 2 days under age-group system. Western Front Artillery duels at different points. Belgian national ammunition factory in France […]

Diary for Friday, December 10, 1915: Southern Fronts Italian Front: Italians capture positions above Bezzecca basin (Carnic Alps). At Pless Conrad first proposes to Falkenhayn joint Trentino offensive to knock

Diary for Thursday, December 9, 1915: Sea War Dardanelles: Royal Navy E2 last Allied submarine to enter. Western Front ALLIED WAR COUNCIL IN PARIS. General Castelnau appointed French Chief off

Diary for Wednesday, December 8, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli – EVACUATION BEGINS: 83,048 troops; 186 guns; 1,718 vehicles; 4,695 horses and mules (until December 20). Half of them removed on

Diary for Tuesday, December 7, 1915: Southern Fronts Serbia: Austrian Third Army captures Pec and then links with Bulgar 3rd Division, as fighting peters out. Albania: Putnik in sick litter

Diary for Monday, December 6, 1915: African Fronts East Africa: 250 German troops retake Kasigao Hill. By December 31, 650 Germans pin down 5000 British south of Uganda Railway. Cameroons:

Diary for Sunday, December 5, 1915: Middle East Mesopotamia – Siege of Kut begins. 7th Indian Division arrives at Basra. Western Front Flanders: French guns shell communication trenches near Het

Diary for Saturday, December 4, 1915: Sea War Adriatic: Italian destroyer Intrepido sunk off Valona by mines from German U-boat UC14 North Sea: Harwich Force trial sortie with carrier Vindex,

Diary for Friday, December 3, 1915: Sea War Sea of Marmora: British submarine E11 (Nasmith) sinks Turk destroyer Yarhisar (42 survivors) during record 48-day patrol sinking 46 vessels. Also takes

Diary for Tuesday, December 2, 1915: Eastern Front Galicia: Austrians driven back to west bank of river Styr, repulsed again on December 17, attacks at several points beaten on December

Diary for Wednesday, December 1915: Air War Germany: In December the maiden flight of Junkers J-1, world’s first all-metal (steel) Cantilever wing monoplane. Eastern Front: In December first Russian single-seat

Diary for Tuesday, November 30, 1915: Southern Fronts Serbia: Austrian 62nd Division occupies Plevlje in northwest Montenegro and secures bridgehead south of river Cehotina (until December 3), but too weak

Diary for Monday, November 29, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli – Anzac bridgehead: Turk shells cause 262 casulaties at Lone Pine. Western Front Kitchener in Paris. Sir J French in London

Diary for Sunday, November 28, 1915: Air War North Sea: Royal Navy Air Service FBA flying boat routs 4 German seaplanes (1 shot down) off Ostend. Eastern Front Pripet: 900

Diary for Saturday, November 27, 1915: Air War Western Front: 21 RFC 1st Wing aircraft damage Don railway station (10 killed, 12 wounded; repeat December 2). Western Front Artois: Unsuccessful

Diary for Friday, November 26, 1915: Western Front ‘The night was quiet all along the Front’ (Friday afternoon official communique). Artillery duels at many points. Argonne: French artillery destroys German

Diary for Thursday, November 25, 1915: Middle East Mesopotamia – Townshend begins retreat after air reconnaissance reports Turks returning. Gallipoli: Monro becomes C-in-C MEF, Birdwood GOC Dardanelles Army. Western Front

Diary for Wednesday, November 24, 1915: Western Front Artois: 50 German shells directed at Arras rail station. Meuse: Germans fire a few gas shells at Bois Brule (Woevre). Argonne: French

Diary for Tuesday, November 23, 1915: Southern Fronts Serbia: Fall of Mitrovica and Pristina drives Serbs west of Kossovo Plain. Germans claim 17,000 PoWs and captured 35 guns. 200,000 Serbs

Diary for Monday, November 22, 1915: Middle East Mesopotamia – Battle of Ctesiphon (until November 24, 22 miles southeast of Baghdad): Townshend’s 13,756 men with 30 guns take 1,300 PoWs