Diary November 30, 1914

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

British artillerymen at Ypres — British artillerymen prime shells and prepare to fire a light field gun from behind rudimentary defenses in the Ypres sector at Flanders.

War Diary for Monday, November 30, 1914:

Western Front

Flanders: Artillery duels. King George V first visits BEF, now 200,000 strong.
Artois: Artillery duels.

Eastern Front

Poland: Battle of Lowicz-Sanniki until December 17 involves German Ninth Army reinforced by 9 divisions against Russian First Army (Litvinov) whose VI Corps and II Caucasus (Gourko) Corps hold firm until retreat behind shorter river Bzura line ordered on December 6.

Southern Fronts

Serbia: Potiorek orders 4-day Austrian pause until December 3 to bring up supplies.

Middle East

Armenia: Tsar inspects front and tells Armenian Catholics ‘… a most brilliant future awaits the Armenians’.

Secret War

North Sea: British fishing trawler off the island of Texel recovers German VB naval code from sunken German destroyer; in Admiralty hands by December 3.

Home Fronts

Germany: Unemployment down to 8.2%.
Britain: Custodian of Enemy Property appointed. In November Sculptor Rodin presents 20 works to V & A Museum as ‘thank you’ to BEF.
France: Government publishes Yellow Book on war’s origins.

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.