Western Front
Second Battle of the Somme: Second Battle of Bapaume (until September 3): British Third Army with tanks and armored cars.
Australians capture Peronne: After crossing the river 5 miles south of Peronne 1,320 men of 2nd Australian Division drive German 2nd Guard Division (over 700 PoWs) off Mont St Quentin, 1 mile north of Peronne (until September 2). Rawlinson calls it ‘The finest single feat of the whole war’ (8 Victoria Crosses won). Pershing letter to Foch insists on integral US First Army.
Cambrai: 3 German tanks attack British lines near Bapaume but repulsed by artillery fire; 2 captured.
Flanders: Germans evacuate Mt Kemmel.
Battle of the Scarpe 1918: Battle ends.
Germany: During August Germans disband 10 divisions to stiffen remainder.
Britain: BEF (108,712 casualties including some to September 3) has taken 63,579 PoWs and 870 guns among total German August loss of 228,000, only 130,000 German replacements available.
France: French troops (c. 100,000 casualties) take 31,000 PoWs and 890 guns during August.
AEF: Tank Corps receives 144 Renault FT-17 light tanks.
Western Front, Air: No. 110 (Hyderabad) Squadron RAF reaches France, equipped with Liberty-engined D.H.4s. RAF August aircraft losses a record so far with 215 planes (French 55) but record 948t bombs dropped (French drop 550t). During August Germans claim record 655 Allied aircraft for record loss of 174.
Britain: All London Air Defence Area squadrons fitted with radio telephone linked to central operations room (September 12).
Refugee French women making straw hats for the French Army. The work provides them with their livelihoods:
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Scottish pipe band playing in the ruins of La Petite Place (Place des Héros) in Arras, France: © IWM (Q 78700):
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, takes a break from his tour of naval facilities in Europe by fishing in Black Water River, Scotland:
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A British soldier inspecting a German war grave: © IWM (Q 9284):
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A Royal Engineer with a gas-proof homing pigeon box, which allows him to attach messages to the pigeon without exposing it to the outside air. Roye, France: © IWM (Q 9288):
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Two German A7V tanks in Frémicourt: © IWM (Q 37344):
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Eastern Front
Bolshevik position 75 miles south of Archangel on Vologda Railway carried by Allies.
Southern Front
Aegean: RAF Aegean Group has 116 aircraft (38 seaplanes).
Italian Front: 3 No. 45 Squadron Sopwith Camel fighters claim all 6 Austrian fighters encountered over Allied lines.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: The 3 Czech Legion groups link up to control whole Trans-Siberian railway.
Naval and Overseas Operations
In August Allied and neutral shipping lost to U-boats: 104 ships (41 British with 217 lives), 278,876t (British 145,7211); U-boat figure 154 ships worth 310,180t including 38 ships of 71,490t in Mediterranean (1 ship with 2,209t to Austrians); 7 U-boats sunk (2 to unknown causes).
Mozambique: Action at Lioma (until August 31): British attack Germans successfully near Lioma, un Lurio valley, and drive them south.
Political, etc
Russia: Volga: Josef Stalin letter to Lenin says Cossacks breaking up, asks for Caspian naval force including 2 submarines.
Fanya Kaplan is arrested for the attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin:
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Moisei Uritsky, head of the Cheka (Soviet secret police), is assassinated by Leonid Kannegisser. This assassination, along with the assassination attempt on Lenin, provokes the Red Terror. Moisei Uritsky:
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United Kingdom: London Police strike settled; men return to work.