Diary April 23, 1915

04-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

Diary for Friday, April 23, 1915:

Western Front

Ypres – Second German gas attack: they take Langemarck, Steenstraate bridge and positions south of Lizerne as Allied counterattack collapses.
First Canadian VC of the war: L/Cp F Fisher (13th Bn).

Southern Fronts

Italian Advanced Occupation region raised to 8 corps, a Bersaglieri division and 2 Alpini groups.

Middle East

Dardanelles: Sub-Lt Rupert Brooke, war poet, died of blood-poisoning aboard hospital ship at Skyros, aged 27.

Sea War

East Atlantic: British blockade of the Cameroons formally begins (raised February 29, 1916).
Home Waters: Fisher tells Churchill U-boats able to radio 300 nm day or night.
Aegean: Allied Gallipoli landing force (200 ships) belatedly arrives off beachhead. After the naval failure the transports (not loaded to permit rapid disembarkation under fire) have had to be withdrawn to Egypt for reloading.
Baltic: U26 (Berckheim) stops and sinks Russian SS Frack. Royal Navy submarine E1 towed to sea by icebreaker.

Home Fronts

Turkey: Constantinople police arrest 235 leading Armenians for internal exile.
Britain: Pensions for dependants of civilians killed on War Depts’ work.
Austria – Vienna: bread of poor quality, hardly flour available.

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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.