Diary September 14, 1914

09-1914, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1914 / 1 minute of reading

German troops in the trenches 1914 — German troops in the trenches. The first trenching of the troops and the dominance of the numerically ever-increasing machine guns on the battlefield doomed the war of movement in the West.

War Diary of World War One for Monday, September 14, 1914:

Western Front

Aisne: Despite major efforts (BEF I Corps captures 12 guns), Allies unable to enlarge much their shallow bridgeheads across the river against GERMAN TRENCHES. MOLTKE RESIGNS AS GERMAN COS; SUCCEEDED BY FALKENHAYN but not made public till November 3.
Foch’s Ninth Army unable to cross Reims-St Menehould road and lacks of artillery to capture Moronvillers heights on September 16-17.
Lorraine: Lieutenant de Lattre (12th Dragoons, 2nd Cavalry Div) kills 2 Bavarian Uhlans with his sword, but suffers lance wound west of Pont-a-Mousson (Moselle), awarded Legion of Honour, aged 25.

Eastern Front

STAVKA orders all radio messages in cipher, but Austrian Captain Pokorny cracks it by September 19.
Poland and Galicia: Russians hold Drohobvcz oilfields and cross river San at mouth in pursuit. Lechitski’s Ninth Army retakes Sandomir on Vistula.

Sea War

South Atlantic: 90-minute AMC action: HMS Carmania (damaged) sinks German Cap Trafalgar coaling off Trinidads (Brazilian island).
Pacific: Spee’s fleet arrives at Samoa but finds harbor empty.

Home Fronts

Britain: King and Queen visit wounded officers at Princess Henry of Battenberg‘s Hospital, London.

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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.