On This Day - 9 August 1915
Theatre definitions:
Western Front comprises the Franco-German-Belgian front and any
military action in Great Britain, Switzerland, Scandinavia and Holland.
Eastern Front comprises the German-Russian, Austro-Russian and
Austro-Romanian fronts. Southern Front comprises the
Austro-Italian and Balkan (including Bulgaro-Romanian) fronts, and
Dardanelles. Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres comprises
Egypt, Tripoli, the Sudan, Asia Minor (including Transcaucasia), Arabia,
Mesopotamia, Syria, Persia, Afghanistan, Turkestan, China, India, etc.
Naval and Overseas Operations comprises operations on the seas
(except where carried out in combination with troops on land) and in
Colonial and Overseas theatres, America, etc. Political, etc.
comprises political and internal events in all countries, including Notes,
speeches, diplomatic, financial, economic and domestic matters.
Source: Chronology of the War (1914-18, London; copyright expired)
Western Front
Zeppelin raid on east coast; one airship destroyed at Dunkirk.
British recapture trenches at Hooge.
French air-raid on Saarbrucken.
Eastern Front
Osovyets evacuated and destroyed by Russians.
Night attack on Kovna fortress; Germans lose three battalions in Russian counter-attack.
Germans advance east of Warsaw.
Southern Front
Heavy Anzac losses; Turks getting stronger.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres
Jerusalem-Beersheba railway opened.
Turkish attacks at Olti and Passin (Armenia) repulsed.
255,000 Armenians from Van migrate into Transcaucasia.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Gadji (Cameroons) reported evacuated by Germans after French operations.
H.M.S. "Lynx", destroyer, mined and sunk.
Turkish battleship "Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa" torpedoed by British submarine.
Political, etc.
Italian Consuls throughout Turkey preparing to leave.
