June 8:
Quote:
"We are now in tents. Great news about Warneford, isn't it? He certainly deserves a V.C. Am going to fly a Nieuport to-morrow."
-Harold Rosher, letter to his father, June 8th, 1915
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Celtic Sea: Waldemar Kophamel, commanding
U-35, stops and scuttles British sailing vessel
Express, 115 tons. Next is French sailing vessel
La Liberte, 302 tons, carrying a load of coal from Swansea to Bougie. He then torpedoes the British freighter SS
Strathcarron, 4,347 tons, bound from Barry to an unlisted destination with a cargo of coal. Finally is the sailing vessel
Susannah, 115 tons, also carrying coal from Preston to Thuro. This brings Kophamel's score to 11 ships and 13,991 tons.
German East Africa: At 0550 hours Short Folder 122 makes another recon flight, returning to HMS
Laconia at 0728.
At 0700 the tug
Blackcock brings a supply of armour plates to HMS
Mersey, whose crew are still busy installing them and readying her guns.