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The Wartime Memories Project - The Great War - Day by Day



4th February 1915

On this day:


  • 2nd Life Guards in trenches   2nd Life Guards are in trenches. 1 Officer Royal Artillery and some men and 6 trench mortars arrived. All hands were busy all day and night bringing up stores at night and baling trenches and at sanitation all day. The French apparently used only loop holes for fire, so we had to make a step for use to fire over parapet in case of attack.

    War Diary


  • Schütte-Lanz Airship.   Schütte-Lanz SL5

    • First Flight: 4th February 1915
    • Length: 153.1 metres (502 ft)
    • Diameter: 19.75 metres (65 ft)
    • Gas Capacity: 32,470 cubic meters
    • Performance: 83.2 km/h
    • Payload: 14.3 tonnes
    • Engines: 4 Daimler 840 hp/626 kW total

    SL5 was an army airship, based at Darmstadt. The structure was damaged during the first flight, but repaired after several months work. During its second flight the ship was forced down by bad weather at Gießen and stricken from service on the 5th July 1915.

    John Doran


  • Visit of Surgeon General O'Donnell to RAMC Armentières   Lt Soltau returned from Sherwood Foresters on being relieved by Lt Perry from leave of absence. Surg. General O'Donnell visited the Field Ambulance this afternoon.

    War Diary 19th Field Ambulance RAMC


  •  Submarine Blockade

  •  In Support

  •  2nd Queens on the move

  •  Sunny day

  •  On the March

  •  Training

  •  At Rest

  •  In Billets

  •  Route March

  •  Shelling

  •  Exercise

  •  Attack Made

  •  Chicken Sentries

  •  Message

  •  Trench K1 was greatly improved

  •  Reorganisation

  •  In Billets

  •  Shelling

  •  Quiet





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    Remembering those who died this day, 4th of February 1915.

  • Sea. William Henry Chafe. HMS Clan McNaughton Read their Story.
  • Pte. John Charles Goudie. 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story.
  • Pte Charles Hobson. 2nd Btn West Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story.
  • Lt. Johannes Henoch Neethling. MID Transport and Remounts Read their Story.

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