Diary December 23, 1914

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

Turkish artillery in action in Armenia — Turkish artillery in action during Enver Pasha’s large offensive into Russian-occupied areas of Armenia.

War Diary World War One for Wednesday, December 23, 1914:

Middle East

Armenia: Istomin’s brigade of 8,000 men forced by 3 Turk divisions of X Corps to abandon Olta in frontier salient, loses 750 PoWs and 6 guns, retreats 12 miles (ca. 19 km) northeast to Avcali salt mines. Snow blizzard next day, Istomin’s 5,000 survivors retreat 8 miles (ca. 13 km) east of Merdenik until December 25.

Southern Fronts

Austrian Potiorek is sacked; Archduke Eugene becomes Balkans C-in-C, Baron Sarkotic-Lovcen succeeds Potiorek as Austrian Governor of Bosnia-Herzegovina starting in 1915.

Western Front

Flanders: Belgian troops cross river Yser south of Dixmude.

Home Fronts

Germany: SMS Yorck captain gets 2 years detention for losing ship (see November 3, 1914).
Britain: 4th revised contraband list published.

Neutrals

Italy: Britain accepts guarantees against re-export of goods to Central Powers.

About The Author

Kretaner

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.