Diary August 28, 1916

08-1916, Diary WWI, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

By tube detonation destroyed German 105mm howitzer. Daily on average 10 field guns and howitzers of the field artillery were lost.

Diary for Monday, August 28, 1916:

Western Front

Battle of the Somme: Army Group Crown Prince Rupprecht created for duration. General Gallwitz in command of German Second Army records that since June 26 1,068 field guns of 1,208 plus 379 of 820 heavy guns have been captured, destroyed or become unserviceable in his two armies.

Eastern Front

Germany: Prince Leopold of Bavaria replaces Hindenburg as C-in-C East (Hoffmann his CoS is the real chief).
Rumania: Austrian monitors shell Danube towns.

Air War

Rumania: First Army Zeppelin raid on Bucharest (night August 28/29, 4 more in September).

Politics

GERMANY DECLARES WAR ON RUMANIA (TURKEY on August 30). ITALY DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY.

Middle East

Mesopotamia: Maude succeeds Lake as C-in-C thanks to CIGS, Major-General Cobbe (Victoria Cross) takes over Tigris Corps which now has 64 river steamers supplying 460t per day (but 560t needed), 3 railways being built. 11,000 troops invalided out in August.

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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.