Diary January 31, 1915

01-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

British infantrymen in winter 1914-15 — British infantrymen with protective coat in the winter of 1914/15.

Diary for Sunday, January 31, 1915:

Eastern Front

Poland: First use of poison gas (18,000 shells from 600 guns) by German Ninth Army at Bolimow in diversionary attack (until February 6). Gas nullified by intense cold and east wind, so Russians fail to inform Allies about it.

Western Front

Flanders: BEF now 347,384 men strong.

Middle East

Arabia: Idrisi’s Arabs occupy Farasan Island in Red Sea.

Home Fronts

Austria: By now 30 regular Austrian battalions sent to Italian border.
Germany: Dr Helfferich becomes Finance Minister.

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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.