The 1st Canadian Division attacked the German line at Festubert with support from a British division but failed to progress against enemy artillery.
British submarine HMS E11 infiltrated Turkish waters past the Dardanelles.
Today In Wyoming's History: May 19: 1915 Dr. Amos Barber, Wyoming's second governor after statehood, whose governorship was marred by the Johnson County War and his general ineffective reaction to it, died. Barber had a successful career as an Army surgeon before entering private practice, and he followed up on that with service again during the Spanish American War, but his having participated through acts of omission in the large cattleman's invasion of central Wyoming is principally what he is remembered for.
This appears on May 19 on the above referenced site, but likely because that's the date hit hit the press.
Barber was 54 years of age at the time. He stands as an example of a weak willed politician that caved to the seeming authority of the time, and came to be tainted by it. An example, as it were, for modern politicians.
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