Diary December 17, 1914

12-1914, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1914 / 1 minute of reading

Damage in British ports — Damage caused by the German naval bombardment of British ports.

War Diary World War One for Thursday, December 17, 1914:

Home Fronts

Britain: Coast property war insurance rates raised after Hartlepool raid.

Western Front

Artois – First Battle of Artois (until December 28): series of French Tenth Army attacks on 1 1/4-mile front near Arras; minimal results until December 24; hampered by fog and inadequate artillery preparation costs 7,771 casualties
Picardy: French Second Army in secondary attack with 3 divisions around La Boisselle (northeast of Albert) fails by December 20.
Flanders: Germans bombard Armentieres.

Eastern Front

Poland: Austrian 27th Division occupies Petrokov. Battles of Lowicz-Sanniki and Limanowa-Laponow end, latter saves Cracow.

Air War

North Sea: Squadron Commander Seddon and Ldg Mech Hartley RNAS forced down when their Short float plane has engine failure; crew rescued and plane salvaged by Norwegian SS Orn. They are repatriated from Holland on December 20.
Western Front: French Army airship Conte drops 15 shells on Sarrebourg railway station; 10 shells and 1 case aerodarts on other rail targets.

Neutrals

Italy: Prince Bülow visits for Central Powers.
USA: US Marines seize bankrupt Haiti’s last $500,000 at Port-au-Prince.

About The Author

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.