Diary December 12, 1915

12-1915, Diary WWI, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

Serbian troops await evacuation by sea from Durazzo in Albania.

Diary for Sunday, December 12, 1915:

Southern Fronts

Albania: Serb Army evacuation begins. 1st Drina Division loses 981 men until December 14.
Salonika: Allied troops begin arriving back in Salonika by train (until December 17). Bulgars do not cross Greek frontier.

Sea War

Adriatic: Allied Navies begin Serb Army’s evacuation (until April 5, 1916).
Aegean: Last 2 French battleships leave Mudros (Lemnos).

Western Front

Flanders: British trench raid at Neuve Chapelle.

Eastern Front

Galicia and Bukovina: Ivanov orders offensive with new Seventh Army (Shcherbachev) and Ninth Army.

Air War

Western Front: Royal Flying Corps reports 11 Fokker E‘s in actions (until December 15) and 3 together at one mission on December 19.

Home Fronts

France: Artillery Colonel JE Estienne sees Joffre about ‘land ships’ (tanks), released on December 31 to work with Schneider about them.

About The Author

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.