Diary July 7, 1915

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

German POWs posing with one of their French guards for the camera.

Diary for Wednesday, July 7, 1915:

Western Front

Joffre tells Allied conference at Chantilly that simultaneous attack on all four fronts would be the best strategy.
Artois: French advance at Souchez, but Germans recover trenches there next day, and French fall back south of it on July 11.

Eastern Front

Poland: Russian Guard Corps (40,000 men and 128 guns) detrains at Kholm after 11-day transfer from Lomja.

Southern Fronts

Allied Chantilly Military Conference vainly urges Serbia to attack in support of Italy.

Sea War

Adriatic: Italian cruiser Amalfi sunk off Venice by German coastal submarine UB14 (Heimburg) masquerading as Austrian U26.

Home Fronts

Turkey: Trebizond’s 1,000 Armenian houses empty, only 100 out of 17,000 Armenians survive massacres by 15,000 Turkish troops until July 23.
Italy: Any factory may be taken for munitions.

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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.