Diary March 6, 1915

03-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

South African mounted troops prepare to invade German Southwest Africa.

Diary for Saturday, March 6, 1915:

African Fronts

Southwest Africa: Deventer‘s South Force of 9,000 men invades at Schuit Drift, river Orange. Berrange’s East Force (2,500 mounted infantry with 2 guns) starts across Kalahari Desert (reaches Rietfontein on border on March 31).

Eastern Front

German Tenth Army withdraws from Augustow Forest to just east of border, Russians pursue until March 9.

Politics

Greece: Prime Minister Venizelos resigns at King’s refusal to send troops to Dardanelles (Colonel Metaxas of General Staff so advises King) after Prime Minister offers 3 divisions. Gounaris becomes Prime Minister on March 9. King dissolves Parliament on March 11.

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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.

African Fronts

Eastern Front

Politics

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