Diary February 13, 1915

02-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

Russian cruiser Rurik — The Russian armored cruiser Rurik with a normal displacement of 15,190 tons, a top speed of 21 kts, a crew of 899 men and 4 x 10-in and 8 x 8-inch Vickers guns as main armament.

Diary for Saturday, February 13, 1915:

Sea War

Baltic: Russian cruiser flagship Rurik grounded off Gotland after minelaying; she limps into Reval.
Channel: Dover Patrol has 30 drifters barring straits with steel wire nets.

Western Front

Flanders: Franco-British advance east of Givenchy.
Vosges: Germans capture Xon-Norroy.
Alsace: German attack in Lauch Valley.

Middle East

Sinai: 500 or more Gurkhas and Egyptian soldiers surprise Turks, which suffering 162 casualties at Tor (Suez) thanks to Lieutenant-Colonel Parker’s Arab spy network.

African Fronts

East Africa: Colonel Kitchener arrives in Nairobi to investigate raising of irregular corps.
Cameroons: 250 French soldiers in skirmish near Garua.

Home Fronts

Britain: Railwaymen get 1st war bonus.

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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.