Diary December 27, 1916

12-1916, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

battleship 'Gaulois' — The French old battleship ‘Gaulois’ was completed in 1896 and was a pre-Dreadnought.

World War One Diary for Wednesday, December 27, 1916:

Sea War

Aegean: Escorted French battleship Gaulois sunk by coastal submarine UB-47 (Steinbauer) 30 miles east of Cerigo between Crete and Peloponnese.
Eastern Mediterranean: RNAS seaplanes damage Baghdad Railway‘s Chikaldir Bridge on Gulf of Alexandretta.

Air War

Eastern Mediterranean: Royal Navy seaplane carriers Ben-my-Chree and Raven II launch 9 aircraft which hit with 4 bombs and damage strategic Chikaldir bridge (Baghdad railway), near Gulf of Alexandretta; Turk heavy guns for Baghdad delayed.

Western Front

France: Foch moves to new assignment at Senlis as ‘Military Adviser to French Government’.

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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.

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