Diary for Friday, April 7, 1916: Eastern Front Reception at German GHQ (Kovno) to mark Hindenburg’s 50 years military service. Tsar inspects Ninth Army at Kamenets-Podolsk, meeting Brusilov there (until […]
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Diary for Thursday, April 6, 1916: Middle East Mesopotamia – First Battle of Sannaiyat (until April 8): 7th Indian Division charges into a ‘torrent of death’ three times, gains only
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Diary for Wednesday, April 5, 1916: Western Front Verdun: Germans take Haucourt, but are repulsed at Bethincourt. Meuse: German floating mines detonated in river at St Mihiel. Middle East Mesopotamia
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Diary for Tuesday, April 4, 1916: Western Front Verdun: German attack on French centre fails; French advance in Caillette Wood. Somme: Micheler put in command of French Tenth Army. Argonne,
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Diary for Monday, April 3, 1916: African Fronts East Africa: Deventer’s South African Mounted Brigade (1,200 men with 8 guns) begins 150-mile surprise advance from Arusha on Kondoa Irangi in
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Diary for Sunday, April 2, 1916: Air War Britain: German air ships L14 and L22 bomb Leith and Edinburgh (aiming for Rosyth naval base and Forth Bridge); 37 casualties from
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Diary for Saturday, April 1, 1916: Western Front German Army forms 200 independent MG units (16 guns each), 83 get 18 guns by October 1916. First 10,000 British gas shells
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Diary for Friday, March 31, 1916: Western Front In April German Army ration strength 6,767,144 soldiers and c.8,000 MGs in service. Verdun: French evacuate Malancourt and also lose ground at
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Diary for Thursday, March 30, 1916: Western Front Verdun: German attacks at Fort Douaumont and Malancourt. France: British GHQ leaves St Omer for Montreuil. Sea War Black Sea: U33 sinks
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Diary for Wednesday, March 29, 1916: Home Fronts Russia: Reforming War Minister General Polivanov resigns after Tsarina and Rasputin’s intrigues; General Shuvaev succeeds. Japan: ÂWar Minister Lieutenant General Oka resigns,
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Diary for Tuesday, March 28, 1916: Western Front Flanders: Haig writes ‘all reports agree as to the efficiency of the 3-in Stokes mortar’. Eastern Front Galicia: Russian success north of
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Diary for Monday, March 27, 1916: Russian Front Western Russia: Front line totally waterlogged, Russian north wing ceases attacks (West Front losses 70,000 men). Western Front Flanders: British 3rd Division
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Diary for Sunday, March 26, 1916: Western Front Flanders: British success at Hohenzollern Redoubt Southern Fronts Carnia: Austrians surprise capture Pal Piccolo, but Italians retake it after four attempts with
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Diary for Saturday, March 25, 1916: Air War Western Front: First British aircraft (Bristol Scout) with MG interrupter gear arrives in France. Eastern Front Western Russia: Baluyev’s first vain attack
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Diary for Friday, March 24, 1916: Sea War Channel: British FolkestoneÂ-Dieppe ferry Sussex torpedoed by coastal submarine UB29 (Flanders Flotilla) as suspected troopship, 50 dead, including 3 Americans and Spanish
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