Diary for Sunday, January 16, 1916: Southern Fronts Salonika: General Sarrail takes formal joint Allied command (including 3,000 Serb troops), but British retain veto over anything but defensive measures. Middle […]
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Diary for Saturday, January 15, 1916: Sea War Germany: Chief of Navy Staff Holtzendorff claims new UÂ-boats can put Britain out of war in 6-7 months, pressing Kaiser on January
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Diary for Friday, January 14, 1916: Home Fronts France: Colonel Estienne and Creusot engineer Brillie design Schneider tank with 75mm gun and 10mm armour, Joffre wants 400. Ireland: Lord Lieutenant
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Diary for Thursday, January 13, 1916: Middle East Mesopotamia – Battle of Wadi (until January 14): Aylmer (1,613 casulaties) takes Turk position but fails to cut Turk retreat (2,000 casualties)
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Diary for Wednesday, January 12, 1916: Air War Western Front: Immelmann and Boelcke first German airmen (8 air victories each) to receive Pour le Merite. Gallipoli: TurcoÂ-German Fokker Es (3
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Diary for Tuesday, January 11, 1916: Sea War East Atlantic: Raider Möwe sinks 8 British ships (until January 20), including 3 on 13, totalling 27,888t almost matching January U-boat sinkings
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Diary for Monday, January 10, 1916: Middle East Armenia – Yudenich‘s winter offensive: Battle of Köprüköy (until January 19) during Russian Christmas. Turk Third Army driven back on Erzerum, losing
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Diary for Sunday, January 9, 1916: Southern Fronts Montenegro: Austrians storm 4850ft Mt Lovcen (‘the Gibraltar of the Adriatic’); Montenegrins retreat 12 miles to capital Cetinje and begin talks for
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Diary for Saturday, January 8, 1916: Southern Fronts Montenegro – Austrian offensive: General Webenau‘s 50,000 troops including 5,000 Bosnian Muslims and 3 Kaiserjäger battalions from Italian Front begins at dawn
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Diary for Friday, January 7, 1916: Middle East Gallipoli, Helles bridgehead: Garrison of 19,000 men, 63 guns after all French gone (January 1-4), repulses half-hearted Turk attack at Gully Spur.
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Diary for Thursday, January 6, 1916: Sea War Atlantic: Battleship King Edward VII sunk west of Scapa Flow off Cape Wrath on mine, one of the 252 laid by Möwe.
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Diary for Wednesday, January 5, 1916: Air War Western Front: New French Nieuport 11 fighter begins entering service with Esc N3. 25 Royal Flying Corps aircraft attack Douai airfields and
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Diary for Tuesday, January 4, 1916: Home Fronts Britain: Lord Derby’s recruiting report published, 2,675,149 volunteers to date but over 2 million of military age unattested justifies conscription. FullerÂ-phone (non-tappable)
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Diary for Monday, January 3, 1916: Home Fronts France: General Press Relations Directorate formed. Britain: Clydeside Socialist newspaper Forward supÂpressed for 4 weeks. Western Front Brigade-General J Charteris becomes BEF
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Diary for Sunday, January 2, 1916: Sea War Dardanelles: British submarine E2 recalled; end of Allied submarine campaign. Half Turk merchant fleet now sunk and warships immobilized by coal shortage.
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