Diary October 15, 1915

10-1915, Diary WWI, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

A Bulgarian infantryman ready for marching.

Diary for Friday, October 15, 1915:

Southern Fronts

Serbia: Bulgar regiment seizes Vranje in Morava valley after daring mountain march, cutting Nis-Salonika railway. Others bombard Valandova.
Trentino: Italians occupy Pregasina (north of lake Garda), offensive resumed on October 19.

Western Front

Alsace: French gains on Hartmannsweilerkopf.

Middle East

Gallipoli: General Monro new C-in-C MEF (leaves London on October 22) after Dardanelles committee decides to recall Hamilton (cabled on October 16, leaves October 17). Birdwood acting as C-in-C from October 17-28.

Sea War

Mediterranean: Admiral Dartige du Fournet (from Dardanelles squadron) replaces Admiral Lapeyrere (cabled for relief due to health on October 10) as French and Allied C-in-C aboard battleship Courbet at Malta.

Politics

BRITAIN AND MONTENEGRO DECLARE WAR ON BULGARIA.
Rumania refuses to aid Serbia.

Home Fronts

New Zealand: Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Act (National Registration ordered, October 26).
Britain: Lord Askwith Thorneycroft strike judgment says non-unionists should join unions for duration of war.
Army demands 2500 doctors by January 1916, only 500 supplied due to civil need.
Ireland: Food production campaign begins.

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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.