Diary November 15, 1915

11-1915, Diary WWI, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

Diary for Monday, November 15, 1915:

Middle East

Gallipoli: Kitchener cables home evacuation might not be so costly. 52nd Division Helles bridgehead mining success near Krithia Vineyard.
Persia: Central Powers’ Ambassadors leave Tehran for Kum with 3,000 Persian gendarmes, expecting Shah to follow, but he takes refuge in Russian Embassy.

Western Front

Flanders: Hard night frost after a week of heavy rain. Comparatively little activity for past week except for occasional sharp artillery duels. BEF CoS Robertson tells Haig his main aim ‘to get you in command’.

Southern Fronts

Serbia: General Ribarov’s Bulgar group in dire straits but rescued by part of First Army from Leskovac as Austro-German pursuit reaches river Ibar at Kossovo Plain north end, French estimate c.213,000 Allies vs 400,000 Central Powers’ troops.
Salonika: British General Mahon forms GHO Salonika Army.

Sea War

Mediterranean: 452 Anglo-French anti-submarine vessels deployed including 85 destroyers (but 28 French broken down by November 30) and 63 torpedo boats. Admiral Dartigue estimates 140 destroyers needed.

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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.