Diary March 7, 1916

03-1916, Diary WWI, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

French soldiers shelter in a trench on 'Le Mort Homme — French soldiers shelter in a trench on ‘Le Mort Homme (Dead Man)’ Ridge, east of Verdun.

Diary for Tuesday, March 7, 1916:

Western Front

Verdun: Germans take Fresnes southeast of city; French success south of Forges, but 67th Division on west bank has lost 3,000 PoWs.

Eastern Front

Baltic Provinces: German artillery active southwest of Dahlen island, river Dvina. German Dvina attack repulsed on March 9. Riga sector bombardments on March 14.

Middle East

Mesopotamia – Second attempt to relieve Kut: Aylmer’s 23,335 men with 68 guns night march to turn Turk south wing.

African Fronts

East Africa: British 2nd Division (8,500 men) starts from Mbuyani railhead and airfield, re-occupies Salaita on March 9.

Sea War

North Sea: Royal Navy destroyer Coquette mined and sunk off East Coast.

Air War

Palestine: 2 Royal Navy Air Service seaplanes from carrier Ben-my-Chree photograph new German Jasta 300 (14 Rumpler Taubes) airfield near Beersheba; first German aircraft seen over Sinai in mid-April.

Home Fronts

France: Gallieni criticises Joffre in Cabinet.
Britain: Australian Prime Minister Hughes arrives.
Churchill attacks Admiralty slowness in House of Commons when Balfour introduces Navy Estimates but impact nullified when he asks for Fisher’s recall; returns to France on March 12 after causing outcry.

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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.