Diary November 15, 1914

11-1914, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1914 / 1 minute of reading

British 18-pounders at Ypres — British 18-pounder field guns at Ypres, with their limbers and ammunition caissons close to hand.

War Diary of World War One for Sunday, November 15, 1914:

Western Front

French General Staff issues studies and plans on resumption of offensive, assuming a German retreat after their setbacks at Ypres and on the Eastern Front.
Ypres: Relief of BEF I Corps by French (Foch) begins until November 22. The French retain responsibility for salient until early 1915. Sir J French tells Lord Stamfordham ‘… we can hold on here…but are not strong enough…to take a vigorous offensive’.

Eastern Front

Poland: Russian Second and Fifth Armies retreat to line Gumbin-Lodz and switch corps to latter. Russian Guards Corps casualties to date 14,000 men.
Carpathians: Second Russian invasion (Brusilov) of North Hungary (until December 12).

Southern Fronts

Serbia: Austrians occupy Valjevo. Vienna rejoices and Potiorek decorated, but rain turning roads into quagmires. Serbs abandon 20 guns by now of chronic shell shortage.

Middle East

Mesopotamia: British troops beat 2,000 Turkish soldiers at Sahain.
Armenia: c. 5,000 Turkish irregulars wipe out 1 Russian battalion at the copper mine south of Batumi.

African Fronts

Cameroons: 1,247 Allied troops occupy Buea in Mountain district (1,200 Germans now captive).

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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.