Diary September 24, 1914

09-1914, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1914 / 1 minute of reading

British troops under artillery fire — British troops under accurate German artillery fire.

War Diary of World War One for September 24, 1914:

Western Front

Germans retake and then lose again Peronne on river Somme. Joffre orders shell economies, reduces daily issue to 3 rounds per gun.
Aisne: BEF’s first 6-inch howitzers (4 batteries) come into action.
Argonne: Lieutenant Rommel wounded near Varennes.
Belgium: Joffre requests a 3rd Belgian Army sortie.

Eastern Front

Galicia: First Siege of Przemysl begins (until October 9). Ivanov begins secretly withdrawing 3 armies (30 divisions) from west of river San to east of river Vistula for offensive from Poland (until October 11).

Southern Fronts

Serbia: Nearly 30,000 Austrian casualties since September 8; one single Serbian division has 6,000 casualties.

Far East

German New Guinea: c. 200 Australians occupy town Friedrich Wilhelm (Madang) on mainland.

African Fronts

East Africa: 50 Germans in canoes seize Belgian island on Lake Kivu.
South Africa: 2,500 South Africans reach Raman’s Drift.

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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.