Diary January 16, 1915

01-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

A French Hotchkiss machine-gun team in the trenches. During 1915 the original strip magazine held a mere 30 rounds will be replaced by a 249-round metal belt.

War Diary World War One for Saturday, January 16, 1915:

Western Front

Flanders: Germans retire from coast dunes near Nieuport under French gunfire.
BEF officer casualties until January 23 are 29 men, the lowest number of wounded and killed of war.
Artois: Seesaw battle for Blangy; finally recaptured by French.
Champagne: French advance near Perthes.
Alsace: French 47th Alpine Division formed in northern Vosges from 10 battalions sent from Artois on January 6.

Eastern Front

Poland: Russians repulse attacks near Bolimow and near Lipno in northwest.
Bukovina: Russians occupy Kirlibaba Pass, repulse Austrian attacks on January 20-21, but Pflanzer-Baltin’s 50,000 Austrians retake it on January 22.

Middle East

Armenia: 3,000 survivors of Turk X Corps reach Hasankale. Turk XI Corps (15,000 men) retreats on Erzerum until January 18.
German staff estimate Turk Third Army at 12,400 effectives, having suffered 86% losses in 4 weeks.

African Fronts

East Africa: Brigadier General Malleson sent to liaise with the Belgian troops.

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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.