Diary for Tuesday, October 19, 1915: Western Front Champagne: German 10Â-mile wide gas cloud attack (500t chlorine/phosgene mix) on Fort Pompelle near Reims. Total French gassed: 5,096 (815 dead). Loos: […]
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Diary for Monday, October 18, 1915: Southern Fronts Italian Front – Third Battle of the Isonzo (until November 4): Cadorna deploys 19 divisions (5 in reserve) and 1,250 guns (1
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Diary for Sunday, October 17, 1915: Eastern Front Baltic Provinces: German Eighth Army active about Jacobstadt and Mitau (October 19); captures Dvina bank east of Riga (October 20). Western Russia:
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Diary for Saturday, October 16, 1915: Home Fronts France: Food Supply Ministry organized. Southern Fronts Serbia: Bulgars storm frontier forts east of Zajecar. Gallwitz has advanced only 8 miles on
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Diary for Friday, October 15, 1915: Southern Fronts Serbia: Bulgar regiment seizes Vranje in Morava valley after daring mountain march, cutting Nis-Salonika railway. Others bombard Valandova. Trentino: Italians occupy Pregasina
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Diary for Thursday, October 14, 1915: Southern Fronts Serbia: MAIN BULGAR INVASION BEGINS with First Army (Boyadiev) attack along river Nisava. Germans storm Pozarevac east of Morava valley. Salonika: French
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Diary for Wednesday, October 13, 1915: Western Front Loos: British fresh 46th (N Midland) Division captures main trench of Hohenzollern Redoubt, but 2 other divisions fail against the Quarries and
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Diary for Tuesday, October 12, 1915: Occupied countries Belgium – NURSE CAVELL EXECUTED BY GERMAN COURT MARTIAL (began October 7) at Brussels: ‘Patriotism is not enough. I must have no
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Diary for Monday, October 11, 1915: Western Front British Machine Gun Corps formed: MGs taken from battalions from overseas and formed into company’s with each brigade during November. Training Centre
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Diary for Sunday, October 10, 1915: Southern Fronts Serbia: German III Corps (Lochow) takes Semendria (October 10Â-11) on Danube after losing 45 of 53 boats (night October 7-8) but securing
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Diary for Saturday, October 9, 1915: Southern Fronts Serbia: AUSTRIANS ENTER BELGRADE after Serb evacuation follows bitter street fighting (city’s fall cost 7,000 Austrian casualties). AUSTRIANS INVADE MONTENEGRO. Isonzo: Austrian
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Diary for Friday, October 8, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli: Hamilton’s Suvla landings dispatch; storm damages Anzac and Suvla piers, more damage on October 27-31. IndiaÂ: Minister and Viceroy consider asking
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Diary for Thursday, October 7, 1915: Western Front Champagne: French advance southeast of Tahure, French war poet Auguste Compagnon killed, aged 36 (Poemes et Lettres des Tranchees published 1916). Southern
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Diary for Wednesday, October 6, 1915: Southern Fronts AUSTRO-GERMAN INVASION OF SERBIA: Kovess’ Austrian Third Army secure footholds south of river Sava west of Sabac. DemonÂstration at Orsova close to
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Diary for Tuesday, October 5, 1915: Southern Fronts Salonika: 13,000 French and British troops land. Serbia: Austro-German artillery bombardment begins including c. 170 guns (nearly 40 x 305mm and 420mm
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