Diary February 26, 1915

02-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

German soldiers exercise with flame-throwers during the second half of the war.

Diary for Friday, February 26, 1915:

Western Front

Meuse – First use of flamethrowers: 12 flamethrowers of Abteilung Reddemann support attacking infantry in Bois de Malancourt northeast of Verdun, first of 653 German flame attacks.

Middle East

Dardanelles: Turks have laid 5 minefields (184 mines) to protect the Narrows since November 5, 1914 (191 mines in 5 fields then).
War Council keeps British 29th Division in England to Churchill’s anger and written protest next day.

Sea War

Dardanelles: 125 British sailors and marines (4 casualties) land on both sides, destroy 8 guns (including 2 anti-aircraft guns) and a bridge. 80 men land at Sedd-el-Bahr next day and blow up 6 mortars. Minesweepers sweep up 4-mile channel.

Air War

Britain: German Navy airship L8 fails to reach London.

African Fronts

Southwest Africa: Deventer‘s SAS Force (9,200 men) advances.

Politics

Austria: Austrian Chief of Staff Conrad urges Germany must pay for concessions to Italy, ‘Either you agree, or you fall into the water with us’. Germans consider giving up part of Silesia.

Home Fronts

Britain: Welsh Guards formed, fully recruited on April 22.

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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.