Diary December 27, 1914

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

Poster of the Austria-Hungarian Red Cross collection of 1914.

War Diary World War One for Sunday, December 27, 1914:

Western Front

Joffre and Field Marshall French confer at Chantilly.
Artois: 10 Chasseurs de Alpins battalions capture 800 yards (0.73 km) of Bavarian trenches at La Targette after 2 hours artillery preparation.
Flanders: Belgians take German trenches near Lombaertzyde.
Vosges: Germans bombard St Die.

Eastern Front

Conrad cables Falkenhayn ‘Complete success in the Eastern theater is … extremely urgent’.
Tsar at STAVKA (December 26-29), inspects new 53rd Don Cossack Regiment on December 28.
Poland: Germans beaten on river Ravka.

Middle East

Armenia: Turks repulsed from Sarikamish; Turkish 28th Division reaches but driven off Kars road.

African Fronts

Cameroons: Lieutenant J P Butler wins African land war’s first Victoria Cross (awarded 23 August 1915) by swimming across river Nkam under fire.

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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.