25-May-1915. May 4th .-(Bethune.) Animals In War . Day of the Week: Monday How Long Ago? The Battle of Bellewaarde. 105 years, 9 months and 27 days Leap Year: No Generation Greatest Generation Chinese Zodiac: Rabbit Star Sign: Gemini. January 8th: Battle of Soissons started. Women At Work In France. Anzacs. Frost, 22 May 1915, France. Page 9 1915 May. battery in practising some of the lessons taught by the recent fighting at Neuve Chapelle. image copyright National Museums Liverpool He was Capt. Dry, sunny weather leaves dirt tracks hard and… Britain, Canada, Germany, Second Battle of Ypres, trenches, Ypres. Theatre definitions: Western Front comprises the Franco-German-Belgian front and any military action in Great Britain, Switzerland, Scandinavia and Holland. Battle of Neuve Chapelle : 10 March, 1915: 1915. Gen. Sir Charles Monro. A total of 252 soldiers of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers were killed at Festubert in France on 15 May 1915 in what was the first planned night attack of the war. The Division is renamed. 28861 Declaration of war against Germany, 04/08/1914 28897 3rd Supp. Read Regimental Histories Online. IV Corps, three miles (5km) to the north, headed for Fromelles. First use of poison gas in WW1, by Germany at Bolimow in Poland on the Eastern Front: 31 January, 1915: 1915. the 1st Canadian Division arrives in France: 16 February, 1915: 1915. Bellewaarde – Losses. on 9th May 1915 at Auber`s and survived, to later become Colonel of the Regiment. World War 1 despatches. September 1915 Battle of Loos. The tragedy rouses anti-German sentiment and helps bring the U.S. into the war. The Canadian Army. Photo Archive: France & Flanders. On 9 May 1915, the British made a two-pronged attack on the German line in support of a French offensive at Artois. It was a long march and of course done at night, and our present billet is a . In the Line Neuve Eglise, Kemmel Sector Page 12 1915 August – To Armentieres. Gallipoli. 1915 Year Collectible Vehicle Original Photos, Other Original WW1 German Collectibles, Ww1 Compass, Original WW1 US Correspondence Collectibles, Other Original WW1 US Collectibles, Ww1 German Medals, Ww1 Victory Medal, Original WW I Canadian Collectibles, Canadian Medal, Original Print Collectible Contemporary Photos (1940-Now) Page 10 1915 May/June. Primary Source First World War Letters Home from the Front Line May 1915 "One sees some ghastly sights. Italian discipline was also harsher, with punishments for infractions of duty of a severity not known in the German, French, and British armies. The southern thrust - consisting of the Indian Corps and British I Corps - aimed towards Aubers Ridge. Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive and Russian retreat, May to Winter 1915 March 1916 Brusilov Offensive, June to September 1916 1917 Armistice line, December 1917, and territory occupied by the Central Powers until the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 3 March 1918 Balkans Front. The local photographer, Bert Phillips, , must have sold many of these postcards back to the soldiers, as my grandfather used these cards to write to my grandmother back … His estate amounted to a life insurance policy for £106 and a friendly society sum of £10. Battle of Cer, August 1914 Battle of Kolubara, November to December 1914 Collapse of Serbia and Salonika Front, October to … He left the document at home, and after his death on 22 May 1915 it was officially recorded at Edinburgh Commissary Office. The War In The Air. Ypres 1915. February 4: Germany begins a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. 01.09.1916 Moved to Oswestry and the 4th absorbed the other battalions as part of the Welsh Reserve Brigade. On a sunny afternoon on 7 May 1915, the Lusitania was sailing near southern Ireland with about 1,300 passengers and nearly 700 crew members. Out of the Line. Private 1731 John McDonald . The Germans used poison gas which was the first effective use of gas in the war. They show my grandfather, Ernest PALMER, along with 134 Coy Military Transport Army Service Corps in Wells, Somerset during May, 1915. Took the Regiment out for a "peacetime" field-day near the Bois des Dames, and worked in combination with Cotton's 18-pr. Adobe Acrobat Document 365.5 KB. May 30, 1915; Dates in History; Jun 1, 1915; What Happened in 1915. May 3rd.—We changed our billets today, the whole Regiment being now accommodated in the Tobacco Factory, which is an improvement on the Rue d'Aire area. However, the artillery barrage was too light and inaccurate. WW1 Photos Database Argyll And Sutherland Highlanders Army Chaplains Army Cyclist Corps Army Ordnance Corps Army Pay Corps … R.C.S. World War 1 - Casualty Lists of the Royal Navy and Dominion Navies Researched & compiled by Don Kindell. Action of St. Eloi : 14-15 March, 1915 : 1915. This was the famed—or notorious—Ypres Salient, where the British and Allied line pushed into the German line in a concave bend. The frequency of offensives for which the Italian soldiers partook between May 1915 and August 1917, one every three months, was higher than demanded by the armies on the Western Front. Mar 1915 The 3/4th & 3/5th formed, May 1915 The 3/6th formed and June 1915 The 3/7th formed, all at pre-war stations of the 1st Line Battalions. Some placed on backs of mules, others carried … 1915 witnessed a number of major battles in World War One, not least at Gallipoli, Ypres and Loos. The Homefront. On May 7, 1915, less than a year after World War I (1914-18) began in Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner … Royal Sussex Regiment - 30th May 1915 to June 16th 1919. Home > WW1 Letters Home > WW1 Letters 1915 > WW1 Letters Home May 1915 Next Page - WW1 Letters June 1915. On This Day - 16 May 1915. The Front Line (blue dashed line) is pushed closer to Ypres when the Second Battle of Ypres ends on 24 th May 1915. at Auber`s Ridge - taken from the personal diary of Lt. Col. Eric Fazan. About May 31, 1915. The attack is preceded by a massive artillery bombardment with over 700,000 shells. May 1915 Sinking of the Lusitania. OC "A" Coy. The War At Sea. Recently found this set of photo postcards in my late mother's effects. and from his book " The Cinque Ports Battalion". Battle of St Julien losses. In May 1915 the first sea lord, Adm. Lord Fisher, had resigned because of differences of opinion over the operation.By September 1915 it was clear that without further large reinforcements there was no hope of decisive results, and the authorities at home decided to recall Hamilton to replace him by Lieut. 15-25 May 1915, Battle of Festubert and later actions (15 June – 9 August 1915) at Givenchy, Bellewaarde and Hooge Albion, battleship, Canopus-class, 14,300t, 4-12in/12-6in, just returned from repairing damage sustained on 28/4/15, providing gunfire support with Agamemnon, Goliath, Prince George, Vengeance off southern beachheads, operating on French right. Page 13 1915 Sep/Oct – Armentieres. Wounded have to be brought up through woods, awful road, or rather track, they come in 2 wheel carts drawn by mules or horses. A second gas attack, against a Canadian division, on April 24, pushed the Allies further back, and by May they had retreated to the town of Ypres. In the first week of April 1915, the Canadian troops were moved from their quiet sector to a bulge in the Allied line in front of the City of Ypres. The Second Battle of Ypres began in the northern sector of the Ypres Salient. As exemplified in the above photo of a fueling point in conquered ground, the Central Powers have chosen western Galicia for their new offensive because of the relatively good roads between the Dunajec and Biala Rivers. Page 14 1915 October – Armentieres. 9 May 1915, Battle of Aubers A disastrous attack that cost 11,000 British casualties for no material gain: it was a minor supporting operation to a much larger French attack in an action known as the Second Battle of Artois. The Battle of Loos in September 1915 is one of the largest Allied offensives in the war. April 25: The Gallipoli Campaign begins. WW1 5th Bn. 1914. Activities and achievements of the war were detailed, with individuals mentioned in despatches (MiD). The Balkan Campaign. Sunday 2 May 1915 . World War 1 Timeline – 1917 by Ben Johnson. 1st - 31st MAY 1915 in date, ship/unit & name order Hit badly by Turkish gunfire from Asiatic shore in evening, retired to Mudros again to make good the damage. During WW1, reports from commanders-in-chief were published in The Gazette, as the bearer of official War Office and Ministry of Defence events. January 14th: Battle of Soissons ended after the Germans launched a successful counter-attack against the … 02 May 1915 - Army Group Mackensen. Important events of 1917 during the fourth and penultimate year of the First World War, including the surprise tank attack by the British (pictured above) at the Battle of Cambrai. Born: 30 January 1888, Regiment: 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, Regiment number: 1998; 300470, Rank: Private; Second Lieutenant, Died: 1962 Transcript … I am much nearer the front now, and we moved here last Tuesday. The Battle of Neuve-Chapelle (10-13 March 1915) The Second Battle of Artois (9 May to 18 June 1915) The Battle of Aubers Ridge (9 May 1915) The Battle of Festubert (15-27 May 1915) The Third Battle of Artois (September 1915) The Battle of Loos (25 September to 19 October 1915) The German Offensive on Vimy Ridge (21 May 1916) 1915 WW1 Timeline. March 10 - 13: The Battle of Neuve Chapelle is fought. 08.04.1916 Became the 4th 5th 6th and 7th (Reserve) Battalions. April 22 - 25: The Second Battle of Ypres is fought in western Belgium. World War I - World War I - The Western and Eastern fronts, 1915: Repeated French attacks in February–March 1915 on the Germans’ trench barrier in Champagne won only 500 yards (460 metres) of ground at a cost of 50,000 men. 1915 was also the year when poison gas (chlorine) was used for the first time. Page 7 1915 May. Page 8 1915 May. Page 11 1915 June/July. May 1, 1915 - German U-Boats sink their first American merchant ship, the tanker Gulflight, in the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily. It started on 22 nd April 1915 when the German Fourth Army carried out a surprise attack against two French divisions holding the Allied Front Line. Eastern Front comprises the German-Russian, Austro-Russian and Austro-Romanian fronts. WW1 7th Bn. First World War Soldiers. (Cinque Ports) Bn. EricFazan.pdf. Download . WW1 Medal Index Cards. May 2, 1915 - On the Eastern Front, a combined Austro-German offensive begins against the Russian 3rd Army at Tarnow and Gorlice in Galicia. But off the coast of Ireland on 7 May 1915, a German U-boat launched a single torpedo that sank the Lusitania, killing 1,195 passengers and crew, including 95 children and 124 Americans. Will of Alexander George Somerville, National Records of Scotland, SC70/8/135/7. On 7 May 1915, a German U-boat torpedoes the British ocean liner Lusitania, killing 1,198—including 128 Americans. 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