Diary January 6, 1916

01-1916, Diary WWI, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

King Edward VII sinks — HMS King Edward VII sinking after hitting one of Möwe’s mines.

Diary for Thursday, January 6, 1916:

Sea War

Atlantic: Battleship King Edward VII sunk west of Scapa Flow off Cape Wrath on mine, one of the 252 laid by Möwe. 2 neutral steamers also destroyed but 71 mines cleared by May.
Flanders: 5 Dover Patrol monitors shell German coast batteries without reply.

Western Front

Verdun: Falkenhayn approves Fifth Army attack plan; it entails 10 light railways, concrete bunkers, and plank pathways. Artillery plan ready on January 8.

Southern Fronts

Albania: Rear-admiral Troubridge organizes feeding and care of Serb refugees at San Giovanni di Medua (Scutari’s port), leaves in Italian destroyer on January 19-20 having correctly insisted Serb main evacuation takes place farther south.

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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.

Sea War

Western Front

Southern Fronts

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