Diary May 18, 1915

05-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

British trenches Gallipoli — British trenches on the Gallipoli peninsula.

Diary for Tuesday, May 18, 1915:

Middle East

Gallipoli: Hamilton gets pessimistic Kitchener telegram, interprets as instruction not to encourage evacuation.

Eastern Front

Galicia: Austrians re-occupy Galician oilfields northeast of Uzsok.

Sea War

North Sea: German torpedo boats capture 3 British fishing boats off northwest corner of Dogger Bank.
Eastern Mediterranean: Royal Navy ship captures 1,000t Greek SS Proton (hired by Germans as U-boat supply ship) and interns her at Alexandria.

Home Fronts

Turkey: Interior Ministry orders deportation of Erzerum Armenians to Urfa and Mosul.

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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.