Diary December 18, 1914

12-1914, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1914 / 1 minute of reading

War Diary World War One for Friday, December 18, 1914:

Western Front

First German trench mortar unit formed (6 light mortars per pioneer company from January 1915).
Flanders: British 7th and 8th divisions attack around Neuve Chapelle, Indian Corps at Givenchy (until December 23). Indian Cavalry Corps formed (existing until March 12, 1916).

Eastern Front

Poland: Battle of Rawka-Bzura begins.
Carpathians: Austrians recover Lupka Pass.

Middle East

Egypt: British Protectorate established. Hussein Kamal Pasha I, uncle of deposed Khedive Abbas Hilmi, proclaimed Sultan next day.

African Fronts

South West Africa and Angola: After 500-mile march 640 Germans defeat Portuguese (182 casualties including 37 PoWs) at Naulila. They hang 6 PoWs on return.

Sea War

North Sea: U-boat U5 mined and lost close to Flanders coast. U11 mined and lost in Dover Straits.

Neutrals

Sweden: Scandinavian kings meet at Malmö.

Home Fronts

Austria: Masaryk leaves Prague for exile at Rome.
Britain: Kitchener’s resignation threat wins Prime Ministers veto on Churchill’s visits to Field Marshal French, latter sees Prime Minister and Kitchener.

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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.