Diary April 23, 1916

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

German 21-cm mortar in a captured French position at Verdun.

Diary for Sunday, April 23, 1916:

Western Front

Verdun: German gains at Caurettes Wood.

Middle East

Sinai: 3,655 Turks (Kress) destroy Yeomanry posts at Oghralina and Katia, take 280 PoWs, but fail at Dueidar, 12 miles east
of Kantara. British reoccupy Katia on April 25.
Mesopotamia, Kut: Townshend suggests to Lake that surrender talks begin, latter says Townshend must negotiate.

Air War

Occupied Belgium: 8 Royal Navy Air Service aircraft first bomb German Mariakerke airfield west of Ostend (12 bombers repeat April 24).
Western Front: Lieutenant Ward and Second Lieutenant Champion (captured February 29, 1916) report to Royal Flying Corps Headquarter having escaped from Germany on April 18.
Sinai: 8 Royal Flying Corps aircraft fly 4,000 miles and for 68 hours (until April 25) to drop 96 bombs on Turks.

Home Fronts

Turkey: Djemal Pasha‘s punishment of 200 Syrian notables announced.

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Kretaner

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.