Diary March 5, 1915
Diary for Friday, March 5, 1915: Sea War Dardanelles: Battleship Queen Elizabeth fires 21,000 yards (ca. 19 km) over Gallipoli Peninsula at Narrows’ forts until next day. Aegean: Â2 Royal […]
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Year 1915
Diary March 4, 1915
Diary for Thursday, March 4, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: Admiralty decides the 29 PoWs of U8 cannot receive ‘honorable treatment’. Germany threatens reprisals on April 2. Shells and Fuses AgreeÂment
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Diary March 3, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, March 3, 1915: Eastern Front Galicia: Russians retake Krasna and next day also Stanislau, claim 19,000 PoWs since February 21. Western Front Flanders: 1st Canadian Division enters
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Diary March 1, 1915
Diary for Monday, March 1, 1915: Sea War Britain: Government declare it ‘WOULD PREÂVENT COMMODITIES OF ANY KIND ENTERING OR LEAVING GERMANY’. But, owing to fear of alienating USA and
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Diary March 2, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, March 2, 1915: Eastern Front Poland: Russian Twelfth Army night attacks until March 4 west of river Bobr fail – 21,000 casualties and 2 armored cars were
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Diary February 28, 1915
Diary for Sunday, February 28, 1915: Air War Britain: Admiral Fisher demands small non-rigid airships with ‘good turn of speed’ for anti-submarine duties. Within 21 days prototype SS (Sea Scouts)
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Diary February 27, 1915
Diary for Saturday, February 27, 1915: Western Front Champagne: Beausejour captured by French but only 1,000 German PoWs taken since February 16. Flanders: First Territorial division joins BEF, 46th (North
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Diary February 26, 1915
Diary for Friday, February 26, 1915: Western Front Meuse – First use of flamethrowers: 12 flamethrowers of Abteilung Reddemann support attacking infantry in Bois de Malancourt northeast of Verdun, first
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Diary February 25, 1915
Diary for Thursday, February 25, 1915: Sea War Dardanelles: Super-Dreadnought Queen Elizabeth (8 x 15-in guns) in first action joins 7 AngloÂ-French battleships in silencing outer forts. Battleship Agamemnon (hit
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Diary February 24, 1915
Diary for Wednesday, February 24, 1915: Eastern Front Germans cross river Niemen near Sventsiansk. Western Front Meuse: French artillery in successful counter-battery operations. Fighting at Les Eparges. Sea War Adriatic:
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Diary February 23, 1915
Diary for Tuesday, February 23, 1915: Western Front Flanders: Field Marshal French refuses to relieve 2 French corps north of Ypres due to 29th Divisions going to Salonika, Joffre replies
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Diary February 22, 1915
Diary Monday, February 22, 1915: Eastern Front East Prussia – Winter Battle of Masuria ends: Germans claim 100,000 PoWs and 300 captured guns until February 23. First Battle of Przasnysz:
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Diary February 21, 1915
Diary for Sunday, February 21, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: Cabinet Munitions Production Committee formed. Western Front Champagne: French progress near Perthes. Vosges: Huchrod and Strossweiler taken by Germans, but French
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Diary February 20, 1915
Diary for Saturday, February 20, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: First formal Admiralty Conference on ‘land ships’ in Churchill’s bedroom (‘flu). Land Ship committee meets on February 24, two working models
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Diary February 19, 1915
Diary for Friday, February 19, 1915: Sea War North Sea: Norwegian tanker Belridge torpedoed without warning (by U16) but towed into Folkestone. Aegean: ÂAnglo-French bombardment of Dardanelles outer forts (72
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