June 24:
Quote:
"Very little news. From what I can see, we are likely to be down here for at least another two weeks. I don't much mind, as in a way I would sooner be here for a little. The change though has rather worn off. Am not a bit comfortable, my billet being a horrible dirty place, with all sorts of weird odours. Food pretty fair, but none too clean, and all eating utinsils invariably very dirty."
-Harold Rosher, letter to his father, June 24, 1915
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Air War: The first 'production' Fokker E.I, 8/15, leaves the factory.
North Sea: Max Valentiner, commanding
U-38, finds another British fishing fleet and uses his deck gun to sink the trawlers
Commander, 149 tons;
Lebanon, 111 tons;
Viceroy, 150 tons; and
Vine, 110 tons; plus the drifters
J.M. & S., 78 tons;
Monarda, 87 tons;
Primrose, 91 tons;
Quiet Waters, 63 tons; and
Star of Bethlehem, 77 tons. Valentiner ends his second war patrol with a total of 22 ships and 9,134 tons.
German East Africa: At 0915 HMS
Mersey and
Severn weigh anchor and head out for blind-firing practice over Barakuni Island.
At 1706 HMS
Hyacinth records an aircraft flying over Mafia Island. This is the first recorded observation of the testing of the newly-arrived landplanes.