Diary February 15, 1918

02-1918, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1918 / 1 minute of reading

World War One Diary for Friday, February 15, 1918:

Sea War

Channel: 11 German destroyers (2nd Flotilla) raid Dover Straits Barrage (night February 15-16), sink trawler and 7 drifters (4 more vessels damaged) in 3 hours without any retaliation due to Royal Navy misreading of Dover Patrol signals. U-boat shells Dover on February 16, 8 casualties. U-55 last High Seas Fleet U-boat to use Dover Straits on February 18.

Middle East

Palestine: Smuts cables that Allenby should have 2 divisions from Mesopotamia for 1918 offensive.
Persia: Dunsterville and armoured car leave Hamadan for Enzeli on Caspian Sea (arrives February 17). Last Russians evacuate Meshed in east, 176 British soldiers replace them on March 14.

Politics

Allies form Allied Maritime Transport.

Occupied Territories

Poland: General Haller and 5,000 men escape to Russia.

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.