Diary December 27, 1915

12-1915, Diary WWI, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

Winter 1915-16 in a Austro-Hungarian trench in Galicia.

Diary for Monday, December 27, 1915:

Eastern Front

Galicia and Bukovina: Ivanov Offensive with 18 infantry and 4 cavalry divisions + 1,000 guns (1000 shells each) along 90-mile front from river Prut to north of river Dniester (until January 9, 1916) against Austrian Seventh Army (8 infantry and 5 cavalry divisions) which repels 6 attacks on first day; Ivanov loses 50,000 men (6,000 PoWs) for few gains.

Western Front

Meuse: German VII Reserve Corps (Zwehl) completes secret move from Valenciennes to north of Verdun.

Sea War

Mediterranean: British Government decides to evacuate Cape Helles bridgehead (Gallipoli).
Gallipoli: Battleship Agamemnon and 2 monitors bombard Kum Tepe. 2 French cruisers occupy Castellorizzo island, east of Rhodes, despite Greek protests.

Home Fronts

Bulgaria: Tsar Ferdinand’s speech from the throne hails Serbia’s defeat.

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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.