Diary June 27, 1916

06-1916, Diary WWI, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

Portugueses infantry-men of the Metropolitan expenditionary force manning entrenchments in East Africa.

Diary for Tuesday, June 27, 1916:

African Fronts

East Africa: British Lake Force (2,000 soldiers, Crewe GOC since June 17) advances south from river Kagera and via Lake Victoria. Major-General Gill and part of 3,000-strong Portuguese Expeditionary Force land (until September 6) at Lourenco Marques.

Western Front

British reconnaissance raids from La Bassee canal to Somme line.

Southern Fronts

Trentino: Italians resume pursuit too slowly.
Carnia: Italian XII Corps ‘rectification operations’ (until June 29) cost 3,662 casualties.

Middle East

Arab Revolt: Fakhri Pasha sorties from Medina, massacres Arab suburb; Feisal blockades at distance.

Air War

Western Front: 157 active German batteries reported by Royal Flying Corps.

Politics

Austria: A letter from the ambassador in Berlin says ‘Monarchy can no longer survive the war’.

Neutrals

Greece: King signs demobilization decree

Secret War

German Hentig enters Chinese Turkestan, escapes Russian cordon.

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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.