Diary August 15, 1915

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

E11 returns this day from her most successful patrol, having sunk the Turkish battleship ‘Heireddin Barbarossa’ on August 8, 1915.

Diary for Sunday, August 15, 1915:

Sea War

East Africa: Cruiser HMS Hyacinth shells Tanga.
Baltic: Russian cruiser-minelayer Ladoga (ex-Minin) lost on mine of UC4 off Oro Island.
North Sea: Royal Navy submarines E8 (Goodheart) and E13 (Layton) sail for the Baltic.

Western Front

Flanders: Shelling on Yser sector.
Champagne: General Dittlurth warns his division to expect French offensive.

Eastern Front

Poland: Germans take 3 towns west of river Bug and 5,000 PoWs. Colonel Knox passes 20 miles (ca. 32 km) of refugees near Bielsk.

Southern Fronts

Italian Front: Austrian Fifth Army losses since July 15: 46,640 (12,290 missing) soldiers.

Middle East

Gallipoli – Suvla bridgehead: Turks repel British from Tekke Tepe foothills in far North. De Lisle replaces Stopford as GOC IX Corps, Mahon GOC 10th Division resigns.

Air War

Italy: Austrian seaplane bombs Venice (Austrians bomb Brescia on August 25).

Politics

Allies offer conditional land gains to Serbia, talks at Nis (August 16-20).

Neutrals

USA: New York World starts publishing German propaganda documents.

Home Fronts

Britain: National Register of all civilians aged 15-65.

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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.