Diary April 25, 1915

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

River Clyde on the beach of Gallipoli — The British troopship ‘River Clyde’ has set aground directly on the beach of Gallipoli.

Diary for Sunday, April 25, 1915:

Middle East

BRITISH LANDINGS ON GALLIPOLI PENINSULA: 33,000 Allies land round Cape Helles, at Anzac Cove (mistakenly) and Kum Kale in Asia (3,000 French in feint until next day). Losses: Allies c.4,178, Turk c.4,730.

Sea War

Aegean and Dardanelles: Allied landings on Gallipoli Peninsula supported by 18 battleships, 2 cruisers, 29 destroyers and 8 submarines which fire 8,010 shells. River Clyde, converted collier landing ship at V Beach, fails to work as planned but her crew win 5 Victoria Cross. Australian submarine AE2 sinks Turk gunboat in Narrows and is first Allied boat into Sea of Marmara.
East Africa: RNAS Short ‘folder’ seaplane photographs cruiser Königsberg but unable to bomb.
North Sea: First sea-going U-boat U21 (Hersing) sails for Mediterranean from Wilhelmshaven (refuels with wrong fuel oil off Northwest Spain on May 2).
Black Sea: Russian squadron bombards Bosphorus forts (repeated on May 2, 3, 4).

Western Front

Ypres: Lizerne again in German hands. British 10th Brigade loses 2,419 casualties in vain bid to recapture St Julien.

African Fronts

Southwest Africa: Smuts (arrived at Kalkfontein on April 10 to command in the South) mauls German rearguard at Gibeon until next day, Central Railway.

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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.