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#OTD in #WW1 Third #Isonzo thankfully ends, the Greek government falls again, the Serbian government quits #Nis

Third Isonzo The already-ridiculous rainfall continues with even greater intensity, and now the writing’s on the wall for the battle. Any hope of an Italian breakthrough has been built on coordinated, targeted pushes, but now they’re falling apart piecemeal as individual components of the attacks are postponed due to the rain and general exhaustion. I hope that quoting the Austro-Hungarian…

#OTD in #WW1 The landings at #SuvlaBay were an absolute shambles; here they are in painful detail #Gallipoli

This post is about the events of today on Gallipoli, at Suvla Bay. For the Battle of Sari Bair at ANZAC Cove, see this post. Landings at Suvla The sun rises. According to the plan, IX Corps should already have captured Chocolate Hill. They should then be using this position to take the W Hills this morning, and be well on the way to Kiretch Tepe and Tekke Tepe by the afternoon. They’re opposed…

#OTD in #WW1 The plans for #SuvlaBay on #Gallipoli have gone badly wrong; French generals complain about #Joffre

Attacks at Gallipoli: Landings at Suvla With just under a week to go before the men go into battle, let’s finally examine in detail the landings at Suvla. This will take a while, because we’re going to need to deal with Sir Ian Hamilton’s original concept and compare it to the bastardised version that General Stopford has been persuaded by his chief of staff to adopt. The basic variance is…

#OTD in #WW1 #Hooge attacked by flamethrowers, the autumn offensive on #Gallipoli is about to begin

Herbert Sulzbach Sulzbach is heading back to that lovely war with his new gun battery. Entrain for the Western Front. Our Battery Commander is Lt Reinhardt, and our Battery officers are Lt Becker and Lt Bremshey. Our guns are decorated with the German, Austrian, and Turkish flags. We travel the same way we went on 2 September 1914, along the Rhine. The “Rhine maidens” bring us food at the…