Diary January 23, 1915

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

British soldiers improvising grenades before the Mills bomb is ready for action, using tin cans filled with gun cotton, scrap and a basic fuse.

War Diary World War One for Saturday, January 23, 1915:

Home Fronts

Britain: Mills submits grenade proposal, in production from June and perfects by Mk II by August.

Western Front

Flanders: Slight Allied advance near Nieuport.
Aisne: Germans bombard Berry-au-Bac.
Argonne and Alsace: Skirmishing.

Eastern Front

Falkenhayn finally gives Hindenburg 4 reserve corps.
Carpathians: Austrian Third Army Winter Offensive (175,000 men in 20 divisions) to relieve Przemysl. Temperatures are 0° to -20° F.

African Fronts

South Africa: General Botha sails for Southwest Africa.
East Africa: Recruiting appeal for 500 more European volunteers fails.
Nyasaland Rising until February 3: US-educated John Chilembwe kills 3 whites on Dr Livingstone‘s grandson’s estate; 140 British quell, 20 hanged, 400 imprisoned.

Air War

France: BAO again raid Dunkirk (1 aircraft failed to return), drop 123 bombs (night 28/29).
Egypt: British reconnaissance aircraft (1 of 6 for Suez Canal defense) locates main Turk column advancing on the Suez Canal.

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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.