Historical Events In 1915
May 24 Formal truce on Gallipoli during which the Turkish dead of the 19 May attacks are buried
May 18 Major General Sir William Bridges, Commander of the First Division, Australian Imperial Force (AIF), dies of wounds inflicted at Anzac Cove on 15 May His body is buried in the grounds of the Royal Military College, Duntroon
May 27 SS Aguila, a Yeoward Bros. ship, she was torpedoed by a German U-boat 47 miles south-west of the Smalls Lighthouse.
May 26 H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England
May 06 Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont
May 06 German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland
May 07 Nearly 1200 people are killed when the British liner Lusitania is sunk off the Irish coast bya German torpedo
May 20 The birth of Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader
May 12 Franklin K Mathiews, presents the idea of "Book Week"
May 01 German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight
May 28 Women in Berlin demonstrate for peace
May 05 2nd Australian Brigade and New Zealand Brigade redeployed to Cape Helles, Gallipoli
May 05 German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom
May 10 Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea
May 07 The Cunard Line's passenger ship Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915
May 24 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
May 07 The liner 'Lusitania' is sunk by German forces off the Irish coast
May 31 An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London fortelling the future
May 24 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
May 12 Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250
May 28 John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll when does Raggedy Andy show up?
May 17 Last liberal British Government of Asquith falls
May 24 Enemy Contracts Annulment Act
May 04 Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb &Germany
May 22 Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland)
May 08 Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett's account of the Gallipoli landing published in Australia
May 20 Bataafsche Petroleum begins oil extraction of Maracaibo
May 08 Australian 2nd Brigade and New Zealand Brigade in Battle of Krithia
May 29 Attack on Quinn's Post, Gallipoli
May 17 National Baptist Convention chartered
May 06 The birth of Orson Wells, American Actor
May 01 British Lusitania leaves New York, for Liverpool
May 25 Second Battle of Ypres ends with 105,000 casualties
May 02 Australian attack on Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli
May 19 Australians repel major Turkish attack on their positions at Gallipoli
