Diary for Monday, December 13, 1915: Sea War Adriatic: Fourth and last Austrian Tegetthott-class dreadnought Szent Istvan completed at Pola. Western Front Meuse: French destroy last German pontoon bridge at […]
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Diary for Sunday, December 12, 1915: Southern Fronts Albania: Serb Army evacuation begins. 1st Drina Division loses 981 men until December 14. Salonika: Allied troops begin arriving back in Salonika
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Diary for Saturday, December 11, 1915: Home Fronts Britain: Recruiting rush last 2 days under age-group system. Western Front Artillery duels at different points. Belgian national ammunition factory in France
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Diary for Friday, December 10, 1915: Southern Fronts Italian Front: Italians capture positions above Bezzecca basin (Carnic Alps). At Pless Conrad first proposes to Falkenhayn joint Trentino offensive to knock
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Diary for Thursday, December 9, 1915: Sea War Dardanelles: Royal Navy E2 last Allied submarine to enter. Western Front ALLIED WAR COUNCIL IN PARIS. General Castelnau appointed French Chief off
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Diary for Wednesday, December 8, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli – EVACUATION BEGINS: 83,048 troops; 186 guns; 1,718 vehicles; 4,695 horses and mules (until December 20). Half of them removed on
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Diary for Tuesday, December 7, 1915: Southern Fronts Serbia: Austrian Third Army captures Pec and then links with Bulgar 3rd Division, as fighting peters out. Albania: Putnik in sick litter
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Diary for Monday, December 6, 1915: African Fronts East Africa: 250 German troops retake Kasigao Hill. By December 31, 650 Germans pin down 5000 British south of Uganda Railway. Cameroons:
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Diary for Sunday, December 5, 1915: Middle East Mesopotamia – Siege of Kut begins. 7th Indian Division arrives at Basra. Western Front Flanders: French guns shell communication trenches near Het
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Diary for Saturday, December 4, 1915: Sea War Adriatic: Italian destroyer Intrepido sunk off Valona by mines from German U-boat UC14 North Sea: Harwich Force trial sortie with carrier Vindex,
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Diary for Friday, December 3, 1915: Sea War Sea of Marmora: British submarine E11 (Nasmith) sinks Turk destroyer Yarhisar (42 survivors) during record 48-day patrol sinking 46 vessels. Also takes
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Diary for Tuesday, December 2, 1915: Eastern Front Galicia: Austrians driven back to west bank of river Styr, repulsed again on December 17, attacks at several points beaten on December
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Diary for Wednesday, December 1915: Air War Germany: In December the maiden flight of Junkers J-1, world’s first all-metal (steel) Cantilever wing monoplane. Eastern Front: In December first Russian single-seat
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Diary for Tuesday, November 30, 1915: Southern Fronts Serbia: Austrian 62nd Division occupies Plevlje in northwest Montenegro and secures bridgehead south of river Cehotina (until December 3), but too weak
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Diary for Monday, November 29, 1915: Middle East Gallipoli – Anzac bridgehead: Turk shells cause 262 casulaties at Lone Pine. Western Front Kitchener in Paris. Sir J French in London
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