Diary January 2, 1916

01-1916, Diary WWI, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

E2 off the Dardanelles with a French sub in the background. It fell to E2 to make the last patrol there as the Allied evacuation was complete. The land campaign may have been a disastrous failure, but the submarine operations were a credit for the Royal Navy.

Diary for Sunday, January 2, 1916:

Sea War

Dardanelles: British submarine E2 recalled; end of Allied submarine campaign. Half Turk merchant fleet now sunk and warships immobilized by coal shortage.

Western Front

Vosges: Artillery fire and clashes in Hirzstein sector (January 2-8) but no change in situation. Both sides suffer heavy losses.

Eastern Front

Bukovina: Heavy fighting northeast of Czernowitz (also on January 4, 7, 11 and 14).

Secret War

East Indies: Captain Müller’s 8-man U-boat telegraph party leave Dutch Java (neutral) for Yemen (arrive Sana in March).

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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.