Diary April 10, 1916

04-1916, Diary WWI, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

Position of a German 7.7-cm field gun 96, which is temporarily used as anti-aircraft gun and can fire up to an altitude of 13,945 ft.

Diary for Monday, April 10, 1916:

Air War

Ypres: German anti-aircraft fire downs Royal Flying Corps Morane Parasol from 8,000 ft.

Western Front

Champagne: German Alpenkorps (from ex-Macedonian Front) receives reinforcements.
Verdun: German advance on Mort Homme, but one German division takes 2,200 casualties. Rain (until April 21) turns ground into thigh-deep morass.

Eastern Front

Orthodox Easter: 4 Russian Eighth Army rifle regiments fraternize with Austrians who take 135 as POWs.
Death of General Plehve, ex-North Front C-in-C (aged 65).

Southern Fronts

Salonika: British cavalry troop (Sherwood Rangers) ambush 2 German cavalry troops southeast of Doiran station in first real clash since 1915.
Trentino: Austrian Eleventh Army (8 divisions) now concentrated.

Middle East

Mesopotamia, Kut: Daily grain ration reduced to only 50z from 80z, the 9,239 Indian soldiers finally accept horsemeat.

African Fronts

East Africa: South Africans troops occupy Madukani, south of lake Mangara.

Politics

Britain: Asquith addresses French deputies visiting London.
British report on Wittenberg PoW camp published (typhus among 15,000 in early 1915).

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.