Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon: French capture Lassigny.
Second Battle of the Somme 1918 Phase 2 begins with the
Battle of Albert 1918 (21st/23rd) (see September 3rd): BEF Third Army’s 9 divisions with 1,294 guns (486 heavy), 500 tanks, c.120 aircraft in intensely hot weather. Prelim fog and smoke-aided advance of 2-3 miles, gains 2,000 PoWs and reaches Arras-Albert railway as planned. German Seventeenth Army counter-attack held on August 22.
Second Battle of Bapaume 1918 begins (see March 24th and September 3rd): British 4th Army attack north of River Ancre on 10-mile front between Beaucourt-sur-Ancre and Moyenneville.
British troops advancing towards Achiet: © IWM (Q 11504):
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Western Front, air: All 80 parasol-wing Fokker D V-III withdrawn due to structural failures (reinstated after modifications October 24). Fog hampers RAF support of tank-led BEF Albert Offensive, but No 73 Squadron does attack German anti-tank guns (and on August 23). Germans claim 37 Allied aircraft for loss of 7. Night bombing including 12t bombs on Cambrai rail junction (repeated August 22-23). First flight of French Nieuport-Delage NiD 29 fighter.
American troops with a 47 mm one-pounder gun at Abele, Belgium: © IWM (Q 79424):
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British machine gunners at night training as a mine is set off in front of them in Rombly, France: © IWM (Q 6972):
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Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Reported Bolshevist advance towards Grodekoro (on Kharbin-Vladivostok Railway).
Political, etc
France: Announcement of appointment of M. Eugène Regnault (ex-French Ambassador at Tokyo) to be French representative at Vladivostok.
United Kingdom: Speech of Lord Reading re: U.S.A. and War.