Diary July 6, 1915

07-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

British Vickers machine-gun crew with 'Hypo Helmets'. — British Vickers machine-gun crew with ‘Hypo Helmets’.

Diary for Tuesday, July 6, 1915:

Western Front

Entire BEF now equipped with sack-like ‘Hypo Helmet‘, a crude counter-measure against tear gas (T-Stoff) shells.
Flanders: Kitchener visits the front until July 8. British storm trenches between Boesinghe and Ypres.
Meuse: Slight German gains at Vaux Fery near St Mihiel.

Eastern Front

Poland: German Ninth Army gas attack (1,450 casualties) on river Bzura fails.

Southern Fronts

Isonzo: 8 Austrian divisions and 350 guns face 18 Italian divisions with 700 guns but morale of former boosted by defensive success.

African Fronts

Southwest Africa: Botha gives Governor Seitz draft surrender terms and deadline July 9, 2am.

Sea War

East Africa: British monitors Severn and Mersey (hit twice, 3 killed) fire 635 rounds at German light cruiser Königsberg (hit 6 times) in 8-hour action.

Politics

Anglo-French Calais Conference until next day.

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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.