Western Front
The first massed low level attack by the Royal Flying Corps on an enemy airfield is carried out, when 65 Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5s, Sopwith Camels, Bristol Fighters and de Havilland D.H.4s attack the German aerodrome at Haubourdin. No British aircraft are lost.
Anglo-French advance on Roye progresses.
German counter-attack at Damery (north-west of Roye) repulsed.
New German Fokker D-VIII (originally designated the E-V) parasol monoplane fighter (Jasta 6) scores first victory out of 18 claimed.
Fokker D-VIII: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...dviii.jpg?ssl=1
Germany: First RAF raid on Darmstadt by No 55 Squadron, 3 D.H.4s lost to fighters.
Pershing requests return of 3 out of 5 US divisions training with BEF.

Eastern Front
Northern Russia: Whites occupy Shenkursk, 175 miles south-south-east of Archangel.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Japanese General Otani commanding Allied expedition, arrives at Vladivostok.
Sir Charles Eliot appointed British High Commissioner in Siberia.
Czechs foil Red landing attempt on Lake Khanka. Regnault (ex-French Tokyo Ambassador) made Allied representative at Vladivostok (August 21).

Political, etc
Russia: Vladimir Lenin tells Moscow Party that young people must be won over.
Slovenia: National Yugoslav Council Meeting at Laibach.

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Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon begins: French capture Caesar's Camp trenches (west of Roye) and Canny-sur-Matz (north-west of Lassigny).
New advance of French in angle between Oise and Lower Aisne, with c.2000 yards gained, and over 2,000 PoWs (until August 18).
British gunners watch a French battery firing their 75-mm mle 1897 field guns: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ttery.jpg?ssl=1
French advance 1 mile north of Autreches.
Patients at a convalescent depot playing in the sea at Trouville: © IWM (Q 11194): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...119515332464640
British soldiers watch a performance by a concert party on a stage set next to a ruined building: © IWM (Q 11503): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...134612457078790
Women workers making cloth to be used for sandbags at a factory in Dundee: © IWM (Q 110010): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...149728137355270
American troops on a rifle range: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...164818282598404
Wounded New Zealand soldiers at hospital in Wisques France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...422765311074309
American, French, and British sailors with a performing dog: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...452975062446087
American troops riding on a donkey cart in Lucy, France: © IWM (Q 80261): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...483177419231237

Eastern Front
Reported defeat of Bolsheviks on Ussuri front by Czechoslovaks.
Northern Russia: 2/10th Royal Scots march through Archangel behind US Marine band, reach Bereznik on river Dvina by barge on August 31.

Eastern Front/West Asia Border Theater
Azerbaijan: Dunsterville arrives at Baku in SS President Kruger, 2 battalions follow, inspects defenses on August 18 while defenders lose Fatmai village on northern flank.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Arrival of U.S. troops at Vladivostok.
Announcement of re-capture of Irkutsk by Czechoslovaks and Siberian troops.


Naval and Overseas Operations
US cargo ship USS West Bridge is hit by 2 torpedoes from the German submarine U-107, killing 4. However, the crew save the ship from sinking, and it is later towed to port and repaired: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...179910189559809

Political, etc
United States: The Martin MB-1 biplane, the first purpose-built bomber by the U.S., makes its first flight: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...392562975162368

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Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon: French advance between Oise and Lower Aisne, capturing plateau about Nampeel and village of Nouvron-Vingre.
British advance in Flanders begins: Action of Outtersteene Ridge. British British Second Army (671 casualties) advances between Vieux Berquin and Bailleul, capturing Oultersteene and 697 PoWs.
British 13-pounder Horse Artillery moves forward; it shows how robust horse-towed field guns had to be: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...e-art.jpg?ssl=1
A British creeping barrage: © IWM (Q 6990): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...724747284426752
Lorraine: AEF gas attack at Mervillor near Baccarat: 800 US projectors fire 12t phosgene (250 gassed, 30 killed).
Current leading US ace (94th Squadron) David Putnam (12 victories) shot down and killed.
British troops at a convalescent depot in Trouville watching a boxing match: © IWM (Q 11197): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...513361639940097
American troops conversing with old French women at Lucy, France: © IWM (80260): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...754947195969536
Wounded British troops in a trench at the Action at Outtersteene Ridge: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...785144452521984

Eastern Front
Volga: Over 30,000 Red troops transferred from West since July 25.

Eastern Front/West Asia Border Theater
Azerbaijan: Merv (Trans-Caspia) taken by Bolshevik forces (see November 1st). [Approximate date.]

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Cossack machine-guns repulse Red River Ussuri crossing south of Runovka. 2 more Suffolk 12-pounders back defence though Japanese refuse gun battery (August 17), but c.3,000 Allies retreat 6 miles to Syvagino by train after Cossack lines stormed on August 20.

Political, etc
United Kingdom: British Government announcement re: representation of Dominions in Imperial War Cabinet.

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Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon: North of Oise French capture Le Hamel; between Oise and Aisne French capture Morsain. Merville retaken by British forces (Lys sector) (see April 11th). Total German prisoners taken by the Allies today number over 3000.
Somme: French First Army takes over Canadian Corps line; latter transferred to British First Army (night August 19-20).
Direct artillery hit on a German military hospital place: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...platz.jpg?ssl=1
German prisoners, guarded by a British soldier, duck for cover as a shell explodes behind them: © IWM (Q 6952): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...815350668046336
German prisoners, including a child, captured by the British: © IWM (Q 6958): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...875742140342272
French soldiers inspect a crashed Sopwith Camel aircraft of the RAF: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...108524393291776
A cathedral at Noyon, France damaged by fighting:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...138724418138112
A temporary open-air kitchen used by German prisoners at a POW camp in Marseilles, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...168925785047043

Eastern Front
Successful Bolshevist attack on Ussuri front. Allied line withdrawn 6 miles.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Channel: British Folkestone shore-controlled minefield sinks coastal submarine UB-109.

Political, etc
Russia: People’s Commissariat for Military Affairs decreed.
Italy: Italian newspapers begin discussion re: difference in foreign policy between S'ri. Vittorio Orlando (Premier) and Sidney Sonnino (Foreign Secretary).
United States: American Girl Scouts working on their war garden near Cincinnati, Ohio: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...845551246536704

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Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon: Charles Mangin’s 12 divisions and 220 tanks advance 3 miles between rivers Oise and Aisne, taking 8,000 PoWs (‘another black day’, Ludendorff), reaches Oise on August 21, but repulsed north of Soissons on August 22. Foch letter to Clemenceau says victory in 1919.
Somme: Since August 8, Canadian Corps (11,822 casualties) has advanced up to 14 miles on a 6-mile front, liberating 65 square miles and 27 villages, capturing over 9,000 PoWs, nearly 200 guns and over 1,000 MGs and mortars.
French troops in the ruins of a church at Corcy: © IWM (Q 78898): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...199127932207105
American soldier wearing a rubber suit to protect against gas attacks: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...440726880673794
British troops wrestling on horseback at the 1st Corps Horse Show at Bruay, France: © IWM (Q 11181): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...470915782107136
A group of New Zealand, Australian, and South African soldiers and a woman member of the New Zealand Volunteer Service on leave in Paris: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...501134245101572
A column of French Renault FT-17 tanks at the village of Nampcel: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...532568900976640

Southern Front
Albania: Austro-Hungarian counter-offensive (until August 26): Colonel-General Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin flown in to command XIX Corps including fresh 45th Division and Bulgarian 12th Division (43 battalions) vs Giacinto Ferrero’s 23 Italian battalions (13,000 sick ion August).
Albanian volunteers of the Austro-Hungarian Army: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...teers.jpg?ssl=1

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Arabia: British and Arab attacks continued against Hejaz Railway.
Siberia: British War Office announces Japanese to be advancing beyond Nikolaievsk (at mouth of Amur).

Political, etc
Germany: Speech of Dr. Wilhelm Solf (German Colonial Secretary) in reply to Mr. Balfour's speech of 8 August 1918.
Russia: Central Executive Committee abolishes right of individuals to own land. Lenin’s letter to Armenian workers.
France: Committee of Representatives established by Inter-Allied Food Council.

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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): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...806879226310656
British heavy 12-inch howitzer is firing: https:..i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/brit-12in-how.jpg?ssl=1
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): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...562781026394113
British machine gunners at night training as a mine is set off in front of them in Rombly, France: © IWM (Q 6972): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...625688623792129

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.

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Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon: French advance on Noyon, to Quierzy (south of Oise) and to River Divette from Evricourt to mouth (north of Oise).
Second Battle of the Somme: Albert and Bray-Albert road recaptured by British forces (see 21st, and March 26th). 1st Australian Division shatters 2 German counter-attacking divisions. Haig tells army commanders ‘It is no longer necessary to advance … step by step’. 32 Allied divisions have beaten 42 German divisions on 47-mile front since August 8.
Haig diary ‘Foch’s strategy is a simple straight forward advance by all troops … to keep the enemy on the move’.
Germany: No 104 Squadron loses 7 D.H.9s over Karlsruhe and Mannheim.
British troops duck as a German shell bursts near them: © IWM (Q 6963): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...837076608696320
A Scots Guardsman giving water to a wounded German prisoner: © IWM (Q 6983): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...867280513216512
French Renault FT-17 tanks advancing in the Aisne area: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...912585963204608
A New Zealand soldier reading a newspaper in a captured German trench near Puisieux: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...942790832431105
German prisoners being led through Bucquoy: © IWM (Q 11219): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...957888913350656
British Whippet tanks advancing towards the town of Achiet-le-Petit: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...174299325583360
Funeral ceremony for an American soldier in France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...204500243808256
British Mark V (armed with machine guns or “female”) tanks advancing through Meaulte, France after its capture: © IWM (Q 7302): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...234701052891137
New Zealand troops in shell holes as German artillery lands in the distance at Achiet-le-Petit: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...256092158480386

Southern Front
Albania: Last Central Powers’ military success in full swing, regaining Devoli and Semeni river lines.
Austro-Hungarian Army stormtroopers on the Balkan Fronts in 1918: https//i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/oesterr-sturmtruppen.jpg?ssl=1

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Japanese detachment joins Grigori Semyonov at Manchuria Station.


Naval and Overseas Operations
Britain: Battlecruiser Hood launched by John Brown yard on Clyde, completed May 1920.
North Sea: U-boat sinks US Belgian Relief Commission ship Gasconier off Haugusemb in Norwegian waters, kills 6 and wounds others firing on lifeboats.

Political, etc
Russia: Statement of Allies at Archangel of aims.
United Kingdom: British Prime Minister Lloyd George states that without women’s help in the war effort, “Great Britain, and, I believe, all the Allies, would have been unable to withstand the enemy attacks of the past few months.”

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Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon: British attack on front of 33 miles from Mercatel (5 miles south of Arras) to Lihons (north-west of Chaulnes).
Second Battle of the Somme: Main attack by BEF Third and Fourth Armies now on 33-mile front supported by 100 tanks, former advances 2 miles, across Arras-Bapaume road (5,000 PoWs taken), advancing on Bapaume from north and north-west. Australians capture 2,000 PoWs and 23 guns, Bray and Chuignes (including one 15-inch gun, disabled 9, used from July to shell Amiens 15 miles to West); 4 Fourth Army divisions continue advance by moonlight. Around Albert British capture high ground to east. South of Somme British capture Chuignolles (on Peronne road).
British private wearing shirtsleeves, shorts, cap and puttees escorts German PoWs to the rear during Second Battle of Albert: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...s-KGs.jpg?ssl=1
Western Front, Air: 2 German Jasta 34b fighters disable 2 British tanks with armor-piercing ammo, one is Bavarian Oblt Ritter von Greim’s 23rd (of 26) victories (last Luftwaffe C-in-C in 1945). Wireless Central Info Bureau co-ordinates RAF ground attacks.
A British Royal Engineer fish by throwing a bomb into a canal at Le Sart, France: © IWM (Q 6991): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...295106290888704
British troops recapture the town of Albert, France: © IWM (Q 11206): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...317747676545024
The destroyed cathedral of Albert, France after its capture by the British: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...514034711572481
Two British soldiers take cover as a German shell lands in front of them at Meaulte, France: © IWM (Q 7089): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...544239245295616

Eastern Front
Volga: Red First Army defeats Czechs, retakes 3 villages south of Kazan.

Southern Front
Albania: Austro-Hungarians renew attacks on Italian positions.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Battle of Dukhovskaya (until August 24): Allies win first real action vs Reds, regain Krevsk position, take 2 MGs and destroy 2 armored trains but little Japanese co-operation. Grigori Semyonov advances from Manchuria Station and defeats Bolsheviks.

Political, etc
Russia: Vladimir Lenin tells Moscow Polytechnic Museum meeting that world revolution will come, time not predictable.
United Kingdom: Lord Robert Cecil (Assistant Foreign Secretary) on Dr. Solf's speech of 20 August 1918.

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Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon: Comparative lull, although the French advance slowly.
Second Battle of the Somme: British advance on Bapaume, capture Bray (south of Albert), Thiepval Ridge (north-east of Albert), Miraumont (west of Bapaume), Biefvillers (north of Albert) and reach Avesnes les Bapaume (western outskirts of Bapaume).
Flanders: British 55th Division captures Givenchy Craters.
British officer holds a Webley revolver when leading his men: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...olver.jpg?ssl=1
Western Front, Air: Both sides’ night bombers active, RAF vs 4 rail junctions, Boulogne hit by 37 bombs; but 2 German aircraft downed by No 151 Squadron Sopwith Camel. No 48 Squadron loses 10 Bristol Fighters on ground to 5 German raiders (night August 24-25).
A downed RAF pilot is captured by the Germans and led to a dressing station: © Q 108871: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...574438171205633
British soldiers engage with German troops outside of Albert, France: © IWM (Q 11256): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...604640947396614
British troops advance on a 25-mile line south of Arras, forcing the Germans back up to 2.5 miles. Shaded areas represent Allied gains since July: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...634847280484353
A Whippet tank on the way to aid New Zealand soldiers capture Biefvillers: © IWM (Q 7016): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...891532066664448
New Zealand troops use captured German 4.2” (105mm) guns against German positions near Grévillers, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...921731789410304
American and Japanese Red Cross Commissioners in Paris, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...953241942876165
Sandbags line the columns and walls of Amiens Cathedral to protect it from German attacks: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...983453367762946

Eastern Front
Successful attack of Allies on Bolsheviks, who retreat to Kraevsk, (Ussuri front).

Southern Front
Albania: Austrians recapture Fieri and Berat as Italians withdraw to Malakastra heights north of river Voyusa (until August 26). French conform.
Salonika: Tank Corps Captain D Mackay arrives to investigate possible use of tanks, rules it out on September 14.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Battle of Dukhovskaya: Bolsheviki decisively defeated by Allied forces. [Japanese, with one British battalion.]
Announcement of tunnel, 39 miles east of Lake Baikal, blown up by Bolsheviks.
Coup d'état by General Horvat at Vladivostok (see July 10th). General Horvath topples Colonel Tolstov from White command in Vladivostok (Allies disarm 400 Horvath men on August 26).
Clemenceau appoints General Janin (still in France) C-in-C Allied Forces, Major-General Knox to head British Military Mission.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mozambique: von Lettow crosses river Likungo and storms Numarroe from 2 KAR coys and 6 MGs (44 killed and 43 PoWs plus 2 MGs lost).

Political, etc
United States: U.S. House of Representatives pass Man-Power Bill (336 votes to 2).

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Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon: Lull continues.
Second Battle of the Somme: British troops now again hold Albert-Bapaume road, Mametz Wood, 2nd Division recaptures Behagnies and Sapignies, north of Bapaume.
Western Front, Air: RAF attack two German airfields, loses 2 D.H.9s but shoots down 3 German fighters. Germans claim 19 Allied aircraft for loss of 10.
Germany: 2 Handley Page bombers (Lawson and Purvis) “devastatingly” dive-bomb Mannheim Badische Anilin Works from 200ft and 500ft (night August 25-26).
German soldiers captured by New Zealanders in the battle for the village of Grévillers: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...013709956898817
A destroyed German lorry near Grévillers. Due to the German shortage of rubber, the wheels are ironshod: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...028793164869632
New Zealand troops launch an assault on the city of Bapaume. New Zealand and British infantry moving out with a Mark V tank near Grévillers: © IWM (Q 11262): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...257684416507904
Armored cars on reconnaissance near Biefvillers: © IWM (Q 7036): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...287882021199872
American troops, led by a band, on the way to the front: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...319347081621504
A RAF pilot and a Red Cross nurse participate in a blindfold race in the Royal Air Force Sports Day at Rang-du-Fliers: © IWM (Q 9266): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...349541549027330

Eastern Front
Volga: Czechoslovaks occupy Kazan.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Germans unable to fly any recon over British lines (until September 14) after loss of 2 aircraft from Jasta 301 between August 25 and 31.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Hungary: Government expels Jews and confiscates their assets.
Germany: Berlin rioters smash pictures of the Kaiser.
The Kaiser visits the Krupp works in 1918 to keep the workers on their toes. Fearing unrest, several divisions are stationed around Berlin: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...Krupp.jpg?ssl=1
Germany accepts Spanish terms re: Spanish losses caused by submarines.

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Continues to be a fascinating account of a fascinating war. Thanks! And, to think, here we are just a few months away from the end of the war.

Smack deep in the middle of the "100 Days Offensive" which pretty much ended the war, in fact. And we can see, the garbage Nazi propaganda that the German Army was not defeated in the field is part of the "Big LIe" strategy.
Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon: Lull continues.
Second Battle of the Somme: German 10-mile retirement on 55-mile line south to north of Noyon-east of Peronne-Bapaume-Lens (night August 26-27). Ludendorff overrules army group commanders urging major retirement (up to 70 miles) to Antwerp-Meuse position (Verdun-Sedan-Charleroi-West of Brussels-Antwerp).
Second Battles of Arras 1918 begin with Battle of the Scarpe 1918 (see 30th, March 28th and September 3rd): British 1st Army attack Germans on River Scarpe, capture Monchy-le-Preux (south of Scarpe) and reach outskirts of Roeux (north of Scarpe).
Tank Mk V and New Zealand infantry after the capture of Grevillers: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...Z-Inf.jpg?ssl=1
Western Front, Air: Somme: A No 59 Squadron R.E.8 calls down artillery fire on 3 bodies totalling 1,500 German infantry. Fokker D-VII fighters (1 lost) destroy 6 of 9 US No 17 Squadron Sopwith Camel fighters over Bapaume-Cambrai road.
Artois: 5 RAF fighter squadrons support BEF First Army with 553 bombs and 26,000 MG rounds for loss of 5 aircraft (646 bombs and 47,570 MG rounds, 6 aircraft lost on August 27).
Canadian troops launch an offensive east of Arras, capturing Monchy-le-Preux. Canadian doctor attending to a wounded German prisoner near Arras: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...622591649538048
New Zealand troops attempt to encircle the city of Bapaume. A New Zealand artillery gun being towed by horses past an abandoned tank: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...682992722526208
A captured German officer talking in French with a Canadian officer near Arras: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...713189710704640
Two canaries perch on top of a cigar held by a British officer: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...743387885805568

Eastern Front
Kuban: Volunteer Army captures Black Sea port of Novorossiisk (ex-Imperial officers from Crimea able to join); Denikin forms civil admin on August 28.

Southern Front
Albania: Italian retreat over, causes concern for Otranto Barrage’s east end to Commander British Adriatic Force who cables Valona endangered. Comando Supremo sends Puglia Brigade and later 13th Division, plus shifting division to Brindisi as reserve.

Eastern Front/West Asia Border Theater
Azerbaijan: 1,000 Turks overrun British position (82 casualties) on Mud Volcano, near Baku, at fifth attempt; another company repels 2 attacks on Binagadi Hill, but later (August 31) Turks force unsupported British (36 casualties) off it back 2-3 miles to inner line.
The Ottoman Islamic Army of the Caucasus launches an attack against the city of Baku (it is the last Ottoman offensive of the war). Armenian defenders near the city: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...652791296843777

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Trans-Jordan: Buxton’s force back at Bair; Lawrence leaves for Abu-el-Nissal by armored car to patch up Feisal-Hussein row (until August 30).
Siberia: Allied and Czech patrols disarm 400 Russian volunteers supporting Horvath.

Political, etc
France: Manifesto of Ukrainian National Council in Paris appealing for moral support against Germany.
United Kingdom: Letter of Lord Hugh Cecil on Lord Lansdowne's policy.
United States: War Industries Board exempts movie industry employees from draft.
Finland: Finnish Government repudiates alleged intention of supporting German Murman expedition.
Announcement that Duke Adolf-Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin no longer candidate for Finnish throne.

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Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon: French occupy Roye.
Second Battle of the Somme: Severe fighting north and south of Bapaume. British take Trones Wood (east of Albert). South of Somme, British advance towards Peronne, reaching line Fontaine-les-Coppy-Vermandovillers.
Battle of the Scarpe 1918: British capture Cherisy, Bois du Sart (south of Scarpe), Roeux, etc (north of Scarpe).
A Vickers machine-gun is hidden in farm building during this period of relatively fluid warfare: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-Farm.jpg?ssl=1
A British soldier posing with a shell with the message “A Present for Jerry”: © IWM (Q 11261): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...984980467232770
New Zealand Army transports passing through a recaptured French village: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...015181796519936
A mass of German prisoners taken by the British held near Abbeville: © IWM (Q 9272): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...046639206477825
American soldiers and YMCA women sing around a piano at Aix-le-Bains, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...076838589607937

Southern Front
Turkey: Constantinople bombed by British airmen.

Eastern Front/West Asia Border Theater
Turkestan: British force occupies Krasnovodsk on Caspian Sea.

Political, etc
Between warring powers: German and Russian Bolshevik Governments conclude complementary treaty of peace (see March 3rd). Russia promises to fight Allies in North Russia and can free troops to move East; Germany to prevent Finland attacking; Russia to pay £300 million in more reparations and allow Germans’ secret use of Black Sea Fleet remnants. Russia to export to Germany 1/3 of her oil once Turks return Baku. Red negotiator Joffe regards terms as ‘… worse than Brest-Litovsk’.
United States: First 2 cases of American ‘Spanish flu’ recognized as such: 2 sailors at Boston, USN Receiving Ship has 106 by August 31. All over East Coast by mid-September. Fuel Administrator bans Sunday driving east of Mississippi.

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Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon: General German retreat from the Scarpe to above river Aisne.
Second Battle of the Somme: Chaulnes reoccupied by French. Crown Prince William Special Order claims ‘There is no reason for depression. Even 24 enemy states [actually 23] will not overcome the German nation.’
Battle of the Scarpe 1918: Canadian 2nd and 3rd Divisions (5,801 casualties) have fought more than 5 miles forward astride Arras-Cambrai road since August 26, capturing over 3,300 PoWs, 53 guns and 519 MGs, but II Bavarian Corps clings to part of Fresnes-Rouvroy line.
Western Front, Air: England: August-September No.5 (Operations) Group (Headquarters, Dover) is removed from South-Eastern Area and granted the status of an independent command. The Group is responsible for units in the Kent and Dunkirk area.
A Gun Carrier Tank, with its intended transportable gun removed, is being used as a supply tank near Arras in August 1918: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-Tank.jpg?ssl=1
Inside a destroyed church near Bethune, France: © IWM (Q 11259): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...107052396883973
American Tank Corps men practicing a charge on the historic battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...137249984724992
A Royal Engineer inserts a message into a cylinder attached to a messenger dog, Etaples: © IWM (Q 9276): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...342342575226883

Eastern Front
Volga: Colonel Kappel’s 2,000 Whites just fail to seize Romanov railbridge (Moscow-Kazan line) and Trotsky’s HQ train in Red Fifth Army rear. On August 29 Trotsky shoots 20 men from Red regiment that fled on.

Eastern Front/West Asia Border Theater
Turkestan: Affair near Kaakhka. 500 Punjabis (32 casualties) and Whites repel Reds from Merv near Kaakhka.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Japanese report retreat of Bolsheviks to Ussuri.
General Grigori Semenov capture Borzia Station; Bolsheviks retreat towards Onon River.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Destroyer HMS Ouse with help of Blackburn Kangaroo seaplane depth charges and sinks UC-70 off Yorkshire coast.

Political, etc
Russia: Mr. Miliukov leaves Cadets and forms Constitutional Monarchist Party.
United Kingdom: Announcement of retirement of Mr. Page, U.S. Ambassador in London.

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Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon: Second Battle of Noyon ends (see 17th) with Noyon being retaken by French forces (see March 25th). French also cross River Ailette.
Second Battle of the Somme: Bapaume retaken by New Zealand forces (see March 24th).
New Zealand troops capture the commune of Bapaume, France from the Germans: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...766396637564928
Battle of the Scarpe 1918: Canadians advance nearly 1,000 yards, taking 2 villages on river Sensee.
A British tank stuck in the Scarpe marshes near Fampoux: © IWM (Q 7037): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...796586042310656
Sniper kills British war poet Lt H L Simpson at Hazebrouck. CIGS telegram warns Haig ‘the War Cabinet would become anxious if we received heavy punishment in attacking the Hindenburg Line without success’.
German cemetery of honor for soldiers killed in the Flanders battles of 1914, at which the marching back soldiers said ‘It seems they are well lying there, because they have overcome it’: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...-1914.jpg?ssl=1
Western Front, Air: 16 RAF D.H.9s cause fires at Cambrai and Valenciennes stations, but 20 German fighters (4 lost) thwart 12 D.H.9s (2 lost) from bombing Somain station and their 15 escorting Sopwith Camel fighters lose 5. Germans claim 40 aircraft for loss of 4.
A Senegalese veteran writes a letter with his prosthetic arm, Paris: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...372556197908480
Canadian troops on the advance east of Arras as a shell bursts near them: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...402774262448130
A French soldier looking at German signposts at the newly recaptured village of Tilloloy: © IWM (Q 78991): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...433013852061696
An American wounded soldier learns to operate a typewriter at the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC. A special device attached on his arm shifts the keys: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...463212383682563
A tractor pulls a RAF Handley Page O/400 bomber into position before a mission near Ligescourt, France: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...705981031292928
French FT-17 tanks move up to support French troops near Juvigny: © IWM (Q 69945): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...736179541958657

Naval and Overseas Operations
Spanish S.S Casara torpedoed and sunk by German submarine.

Political, etc
Russia: British Embassy at Petrograd attacked by Bolshevist troops; Captain Cromie, Naval Attache, killed.
Bulgaria: Visit of Kaiser Wilhelm to Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria at Nauheim.
United States: Mr. John Ryan to be Assistant Secretary of War, with title and functions of Director of Air Service.

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