Showing posts with label Australia Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia Day. Show all posts

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Friday, July 30, 1915. First Australia Day, First use of the flamethrower.

It was Australia Day for the first time.

The flamethrower was used in combat for the firs ttime by the Germans (of course), against the British, at Hooge, Belgium.


Hampartsoum Boyadjian, Armenian partisan, was hanged with 12 others at a prison in Kayseri, Turkey.

The British cargo ship Iberian was sunk by the U-28.

Headline in the Winnipeg Tribune:

It probably isn't, but you aren't going to live forever anyway.

Last edition:

Thursday, July 29, 1915. Bandits, Rebels, and would be Rebels.