Diary August 10, 1915

08-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

Austria-Hungarian mountain gun on Pleisshorn in the Ortler range in more than 3,300 yards (ca. 3,018 m) above sea level.

Diary for Tuesday, August 10, 1915:

Southern Fronts

Italian Front: Italian Isonzo attacks and also advance in Ortler range (Upper Adige); 45th Infantry Regiment capture Cima Bois.

Eastern Front

Poland: Siege of Novo Georgievsk (Modlin) (until August 20) by Beseler, captor of Antwerp.

Middle East

Gallipoli – Anzac bridgehead: Decisive counter-attack by Turkish troops led by Kemal retakes Chunuk Bair, the ‘Farm’ and the ‘Pinnacle’, annihilating 2000 British soldiers. Gurkhas retire from Hill Q.
Suvla bridgehead: 54th Divisions lands joining 53rd Division.

Sea War

Baltic: German fleet shells Riga but is driven off. Russian battleship Siava engages German battleships Nassau and Posen.

Home Fronts

Japan: Marquis Okuma, Foreign Minister, replaces Prime Minister Kato (resigned August 9), Baron Ishii succeeds Okuma on August 12.
Turkey – Armenian Anatolian College: 400 students deported, all male students murdered.
Germany: Kaiser awards Tirpitz Pour le Merite on 25th anniversary of Helgoland occupation.

Neutrals

USA: Plattsburg New York State military training camp for civilians opens.

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Kretaner

My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

2 thoughts on “Diary August 10, 1915”

Андрей А. Зимин
August 10, 2015 at 8:58 am

“German fleet shells Riga”. Impossible. Battle at Irbe Strait. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irbe_Strait
“Russian battleship Siava” SLAVA

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1. Kretaner
  August 10, 2015 at 10:02 am
  
  This battle was on August 8. August 10 they managed it.
  
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