Diary April 30, 1915

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

The German General Liman von Sanders, commander of the Turkish 5th Army on Gallipoli.

Diary for Friday, April 30, 1915:

Middle East

Enver Pasha orders Liman to ‘drive the invaders into the sea’; 2 divisions from Asia Minor transferred to Gallipoli. Allied losses now total c.11,000. (War Office estimates for all operations just c.5,000).

Western Front

Ypres: Foch launches inconclusive attack.
Alsace: French Vosges Army losses in 1915 to date 20,300 men.
Lorraine: French war poet Antoine Dujardin (born 1887) dies of wounds at Toul, his Dans Les Tranchees 1914-15 published in 1915.

Eastern Front

Galicia: Austrian Gorlice deserters reveal May 2 attack date to Russians.

Sea War

Dardanelles: Battleship Lord Nelson sets Chanak alight night April 30-May 1.

Air War

Southwest Africa: First British aircraft – 3 Farman, 2 BEs – land at Walvis Bay to give valuable cover for Union Expeditionary Force against German colonists.
North Sea: Patrolling German airship L9 (Mathy) attacks 3 Royal Navy submarines; D4 damaged.

Home Fronts

Britain: King and Kitchener visit Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield Middx.

Occupied countries

Eastern France: Bread ration cards in Lille in April introduced.

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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.