Diary December 19, 1914

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

Preparing to detonate a mine — German officers prepare to detonate a mine under the enemy trenches.

War Diary World War One for Saturday, December 19, 1914:

Western Front

Flanders: Indian Corps (1,672 casualties) heavily engaged by German counter-attack with mining near Cuinchy and Givenchy until next day.
Somme: French repulse attack near Lihons.
Argonne: Sarrail‘s Third Army attacks astride Meuse, minuscule gains for nearly 12,216 casualties.

Middle East

Armenia – First big fall of snow . Enver issues orders for complex enveloping offensive.

Sea War

Britain: Fisher proposes fast lightly armored 15-inch-gun battlecruiser class to DNC (model by December 24, builders chosen on December 29, keel laid January 25, 1915). Ships become Renown and Repulse.

Air War

Occupied Belgium: Allied aircraft bomb Zeppelin sheds at Brussels (RNAS repeat it on December 24).

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.