Diary August 5, 1916

08-1916, Diary WWI, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

'tribal transport' porters — Some 1,500 British ‘tribal transport’ porters setting out. All troops relied to a very considerable extent on head-carrying to get their supplies forward. The porters were often coerced into serving, poorly paid, and not always wll treated.

Diary for Saturday, August 5, 1916:

African Fronts

East Africa – Smuts resumes main advance through Nguru Mountains on Morogoro (Central Railway): 7,000 men and 36 guns against c.2,000 Germans.

Eastern Front

Brusilov offensive, Galicia: Hindenburg visits Zborov behind Suedarmee which fights Battle of Zalozce (August 7-10).

Southern Fronts

Macedonia: Bulgars cross Greek frontier to south of Monastir and occupy two villages (until August 7).

Middle East

Armenia: Kemal reoccupies Bitlis and Mus (August 6), taking 2 guns and 2 MGs.

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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.