Year 1914

War Diary World War One for Wednesday, December 16, 1914: Sea War North Sea: 100 mines laid off by cruiser Kolberg near Scarborough. 20 of them swept on December 19, […]

War Diary World War One for Tuesday, December 15, 1914: Southern Fronts Serbia: Serb patrols reoccupy Belgrade at 1000 hours and gunners hit Austrian pontoon bridge. END OF THIRD AUSTRIAN

War Diary World War One for Monday, December 14, 1914: Middle East Armenia: Enver Pasha arrives at Köprüköy, takes Third Army from Hasan Izzet. Tsar decorates 1,200 men from Front.

War Diary World War One for Sunday, December 13, 1914: Sea War Dardanelles – First battleship sunk by subma­rine: old Turk battleship Messudieh sunk at anchor in shoal water north

War Diary World War One for Saturday, December 12, 1914: Eastern Front Carpathians: Austrians retake Dukla Pass and Nowy Sacz. Southern Fronts Serbia: Austrian Sixth Army recrosses Sava at Sabac

War Diary World War One for Friday, December 11, 1914: Air War Western Front: RFC and RNAS adopt roundel national marking following example set by French Aviation Militaire. This supersedes

War Diary World War One for Thursday, December 10, 1914: Air War Eastern Front: World’s first heavy bomber unit formed at Yablonna, near Warsaw (Russian Poland). The EVK (‘Flying Ship

War Diary World War One for Wednesday, December 9, 1914: Sea War Britain: Commissioning of first purpose­-built (from keel up) seaplane carrier HMS Ark Royal II (launched September 5). First

War Diary World War One for Tuesday, December 8, 1914: Sea War Atlantic – Battle of the Falkland Islands: Sturdee with battlecruisers Invincible (hit 22 times, no casualties) and Inflexible

War Diary World War One for Monday, December 7, 1914: Eastern Front East Prussia: Russian attacks. Poland – Second Battle of Warsaw (until December 30): German offensive. Galicia: Russians bombard

War Diary World War One for Sunday, December 6, 1914: Western Front Dunkirk bombarded (and Furnes on December 8) by German 15-inch naval guns emplaced 20 miles (ca. 32 km)

War Diary World War One for Saturday, December 5, 1914: Home Fronts France: 12 Scottish female doctors and nurses arrive in Calais to combat Belgian Army typhoid until February 1915.

War Diary World War One for Friday, December 4, 1914: Eastern Front Poland: Russian front broken at Ilov, 2 reserve divisions reduced to 4 or 5 companies strength. Western Front

War Diary for Thursday, December 3, 1914: Southern Fronts Serbia: General Serb counter­offensive (Battle of the Ridges) catches Austrian Sixth Army off guard (heavy artillery is in rear), Misic’s First

War Diary for Wednesday, December 2, 1914: Sea War South Atlantic: Spee’s East Asia squadron surrounding the Horn in the night of December 1-2. East of the Horn cruiser Leipzig