Diary January 28, 1915

01-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

Rat hunting in the trenches — Trench systems everywhere were plagued by rats and hunting then down was a task performed on a regular basis by all sides.

War Diary World War One for Thursday, January 28, 1915:

Western Front

Flanders: Allies take Great Dune.
Artois: German attack at Bellacourt.
Argonne: French 58 mm trench mortar first fired in action.

Middle East

Wassmuss, ‘German Lawrence of Arabia’, leaves Baghdad for Southern Persia, but Turks stop 3 other Germans.

Home Fronts

Britain: Lloyd George proposes to British War Council that Allied army be sent to Salonika to lead Balkan powers against Austria.
Fisher resigns over Prime Ministers Dardanelles attack order, but Kitchener and Churchill dissuade him. He agreed any troops should be sent to Serbia via Salonika.

Sea War

South Atlantic: US vessel William P Frye (wheat for Britain) sunk by German Armed Merchant ship Prinz Eitel Friedrich.
Black Sea: Russian torpedo boats shell Trebizond and Rize.

Neutrals

USA: US Coast Guard founded (grows to 8,835 men during hostilities with 48 vessels).

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.