Diary September 7, 1915

09-1915, Diary WWI, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

German 11-inch coastal gun 28-cm-Küstenkanone L/21.

Diary for Tuesday, September 7, 1915:

Sea War

North Sea: Dover Patrol and French bombardment of Ostend with air-spotting, monitor Lord Clive damaged by 5 shells from new Tirpitz Battery (4 x 11-in guns); shelling repeated on September 19 and along Belgian coast from September 25-27 and 30.

Western Front

Champagne: German song writer Fritz Jürgens killed, aged 27.

Eastern Front

Western Russia: Germans take Voikovisk.
Galicia – Battle of Tarnopol (until September 16): Russian Ninth and Eleventh Army counter-offensive on river Sereth and at Trembovia as Austrian First Army enters Dubno. Former takes 17,383 PoWs and 33 guns.

Southern Fronts

Serbia: Serbs drive Austrians from positions on Drina and Danube in minor operations.

Middle East

East Persia: 300 British soldiers get to Birjand, join Russians.

African Fronts

North Cameroons: 2nd Allied attack on Mora (until September 9) fails, more efforts abandoned on September 15.

Air War

Britain: Airships LZ74 (George) and SL2 (Wobeser) bomb London (night September 7-8, 46 civilian casualties).

Home Front

Britain: War Policy Committee finds for conscription but 4 members dissent.

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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.