Western Front
The London Air Defence Area (LADA) is created with Major General E.B. Ashmore in command. Three Royal Flying Corps (RFC) squadrons equipped with Sopwith Camels and Sopwith Pups are formed specifically for operations against daylight raids by Gotha bombers.
Despite three years of war, France has 3 million soldiers at the front, a million more than in 1914.
Third Battle of Ypres (aka the Battle of Passchendaele): Germans regain footing in Hollebeke, but are driven out in course of day.
Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse, British doctor, Olympic athlete (& awarded the Victoria Cross twice), is killed in action at Ypres: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...515650941022210
At Boezinge, Belgium, a German shell explodes in the distance with a British working party in the foreground: © IWM (Q 3103): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...802533826723840
A smashed and captured German trench near Boezinge, Belgium: © IWM (Q 3090): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...832748271624192
British airmen bathing in the Dunkirk-Furnes Canal: © IWM (Q 2827): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...500554546040832
British service commemorating the start of the 4th year of war at the 1st Army HQ at Ranchicourt: © IWM (Q 5774): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...787442163195904

Eastern Front
Austrro-German forces now 10 miles east of Czernowitz.
Vama (Bukovina front) occupied by German-Bulgarian forces.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mediterranean: French sloop Antares rams and damages U-39, sister sloop Aldebaran damages U-23 on August 8.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Armenia: Russian troops being withdrawn to Europe acroos the Caucasus. In August British estimate 123,500 effective Russian infantry vs 64,000 Turks. Nihad Pasha takes over Turkish Second Army for duration of war.
Turkish light artillery on the Caucasian Front: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...casus.jpg?ssl=1
Palestine: German airman lands and damages pipeline near Salmana.
Arabia: Lawrence returns to Aqaba in RIMS Hardinge, restores Howeitat tribes’ loyalty with £1,000.

Political, etc
Germany: Herr Richard von Kuhlmann appointed German Foreign Minister (see July 15th, 1917 and July 9th, 1918): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...849327034126336
Russia: Russian Premier Kerensky receives votes of confidence from five political parties and most of the Workmen’s & Soldiers’ & Peasants’ councils.
Italy: (Listed for yesterday): Cesare Ricotti-Magnani, former Italian general and Minister of War, passed away: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...470354022289408
Argentina: Government demands German indemnity for ship losses (agreed on August 28).

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Where's the gecko? Missed a couple of days ... is the war over? Nah. No doubt he'll be back.

OK, here we go:
Western Front
Men of the Glasgow Highlanders doing a physical training game at Ghyvelde: © IWM (Q 2685): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...167434420256769

Eastern Front
Second phase of Battle of Marasesti begins (untilSeptember 3): Mackensen (12 divisions with 865 guns) storms positions north of Focsani, as Russian Fourth Army (Ragoza) flees, advances 8 miles and takes 3,000 PoWs (until August 7).
General Field Marshal August von Mackensen (1849-1945): https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ensen.jpg?ssl=1
Romanian troops at Mărășești: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...152339900293120
Slight Russian rally in Czernowitz region.
Russian prisoners captured by the Germans near Focsani, Romania, receiving their bread rations: © IWM (Q 60341): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...182543183970304

Political, etc
Russia: M. Kerenski definitely appointed Prime Minister of Russia (see July 19th, September 10th and November 8th), forms Save the Revolution National Ministry. Tereshchenko new Foreign Minister, tells Colonel Knox on August 12 that Russia will fight through winter. Knox leaves for London on August 18, having seen Kerensky before on August 16.
Russian Ministry of Justice orders the arrest of Leon Trotsky for his part in the recent clashes between the government and Bolsheviks.
United Kingdom: French Prime Minister Painleve and Lloyd George in London until August 8 to discuss separate peace with Austria-Hungary.
United States: Workers in an airplane factory assembling wings in New York City: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...212736854495232

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Western Front
In Champagne and near Verdun, French forces defeat two attacks by German forces without losing ground.

Eastern Front
Battle of Marasesti: Von Mackensen’s army group crosses the Susitza river, and takes 3,000 prisoners.

Southern Front
Salonika: British War Cabinet agree not to withdraw more Salonika troops after Allies allow 10th Division to go ‘unless unexpected events occurred’
Italian Front: In London conference Baron Sonnino asks for 400 heavy guns (until August 8).
Wounded and sick British soldiers in a church in Oreovica, Serbia: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...526059957424129

Naval and Overseas Operations
Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning fails at his 2nd attempt to land on a moving ship and is killed: © IWM (Q 80597): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...571361099804672

Political, etc
Russia: Russian Provisional Government release lists of spies, informers and agent provocateurs who were in the former Tsar Nicholas’s pay.
Elihu Root, U.S. diplomat to Russia, declares recent news about riots and revolution in Russia are exaggerated.
United Kingdom: Churchill sees Clyde deportee Kirkwood, makes him Miie-End London shell factory manager on August 10 and by late September it has the highest production in country.
In a factory for artillery shells supplies are provided for the material battles.
Vice-Admiral Sir R Weymss succeeds Admiral Sir C Burney as Second Sea Lord.
United States: Representatives of Allied nations meet in New York to discuss standardizing airplane parts.
Minor Allies: Liberian declaration of war on Germany, dated 4 August, published.

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Western Front
Germany: First Allied night bomber shot down by fighters near Frankfurt-am-Main.
Wet weather continues in Flanders. Heavy artillery fire is exchanged between Allied and German lines in Belgium, but no major attacks take place.
French make progress north-west of Bixschoote.
London double-decker buses on the Cassel-Dunkerque road in France to transport troops: © IWM (Q 2690): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...889695687004160
French soldiers loading a Brandt pneumatic air gun for training in Oise, France: © IWM (Q 93188): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...919899046440960

Eastern Front
Battle of Marasesti: Russian counterattack near the confluence of the Dniester & Zbruch Rivers makes small gains, capturing 2 border towns & 300 prisoners.
Galicia: Turkish 20th Division hands over its sector to German 24th Reserve Division (night August 8-9) before leaving for Constantinople on September 11.
Turkish officers on the Eastern Front: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...front.jpg?ssl=1
Rumania: Third Battle of Oituz (until August 22): 2 Austro-German divisions attack and force Allied retreat in Trotus valley southwest of Okna. Rumanians counter-attack on August 12-13.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Britain: Convoys extended to outward-bound shipping, 18 convoys run from Milford, Falmouth, Queenstown, Buncrana (Scotland) and Devonport, only 2 of 219 ships sunk.
Biscay: Q-ship Dunraven (Campbell) fights UC-71 for 4 hours, but sinks on August 9 in tow back to Plymouth. U-boat sinks Q-ship Bergamot (August 13).
Baltic: first 1917 Russian submarine success: Vepr sinks German iron ore steamer in Gulf of Bothnia. Royal Navy submarines move base from Reval to Hangoe, Finland (end of August).

Political, etc
Ireland: Irish Home Rule Convention reopens in Dublin after it was adjourned in July to discuss the future of Ireland.

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Western Front
Artois: 7 Royal Flying Corps aircraft strafe before and during British 12th Division local attack, tactics repeated on August 19 and 26.
Successful British raids in Lens district.
British soldiers hauling a 18 pounder field gun out of the mud near Zillebeke, Belgium: © IWM (Q 5850): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...253477525512193
Barbers of the British 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment working at Dickebusch, Belgium: © IWM (Q 5850): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...283879011127296

Eastern Front
Battle of Marasesti: Mackensen beyond river Susitza threatens Allied rear. Lieutenant Rommel wounded in left arm but carries on for two weeks.
‘The situation in Russia is totally unclear’ means this chaotic-colorful poster from Italy: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...sland.jpg?ssl=1
More than 3,300 prisoners have been taken in the Central Powers’ offensive in Romania.

Southern Front
Salonika: 3 Bulgarian howitzers at 5-mile range destroy or damage 3 Royal Flying Corps aircraft on Struma sector airfield, 6 surviving planes fly to safer field. British patrol (21 men) west of Lake Doiran on ‘P’ ridge bayonets 14 Bulgarian soldiers and takes 1 PoW for 1 man missing.

Naval and Overseas Operations
In the past six months, more than 642 British ships have been sunk, with total tonnage equaling 3 million tons.

Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Count Esterhazy, Hungarian Premier, resigns (see 21st and June 15th).
Canada: Third reading of Compulsory Military Service Bill for Canada passed.
Canada limits the use of beef, bacon, and white bread in public eating places and prohibits use of wheat in distillation of alcohol.
United States: U.S. Army cooks being trained at Pratt Institute in New York: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...299930675433472

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Western Front
Ypres – Second Allied attack of ‘Third Ypres’ Battle: British advance on 2-mile front east of Ypres, capturing Westhoek and Glencorse Wood; 18th Division captures Inverness Copse, but Gheluvelt Plateau as a whole not taken. French advance east and north of Bixschoote.
Nancy bombed; French bomb Frankfurt.
French soldiers loading a 220 mm mortar near Boesinghe, Belgium: © IWM (Q 78974): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...608257527631872
A German trench on the Yser Canal after its capture by the French Army: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...638437050667008

Eastern Front
Battle of Marasesti: Mackensen beyond Susitsa river, strikes north at Romanians, always threatening rear of Russo-Romanian armies.
Central Powers also advancing in northern Moldavia.
Central Powers claim to have taken 1600 more prisoners this day.
A Ukrainian regiment mutinies in Kiev and exchanges fire with Russian forces.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Since the start of the war, the neutral Scandinavian nations have lost 933 ships and around 500 men due to torpedoes or mines.
East Africa: Linforce recces Lettow’s Narunyu position. First Belgians reinforce Iringa Force which crosses river Idete on August 26 after indecisive action there on August 12.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Palestine: Allenby told he will get a division from Salonika, must ‘strike the Turks as hard as possible’; he moves GHO from Cairo 200 miles to Kelab near Front (August 11), forms DMC, XX and XXI Corps on August 12. British General Sir Edmund Allenby is ordered to seize Jerusalem from the Turks by Christmas 1917: https://i0.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...lenby.jpg?ssl=1

Political, etc
United Kingdom: British Labour Party decide to send delegates to a "consultative" Conference at Stockholm (see 13th).
United States: Wilson signs the Food and Fuel Control Act, giving the federal government more power to control food and fuel production and supplies.
Sweden: Hilda Nilsson, Swedish serial killer convicted of killing 8 children, commits suicide in prison: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...715155413274624

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Western Front
Canadian fighter ace William Avery Bishop is awarded the Victoria Cross for his conduct during a raid on a German airfield.
Third Battle of Ypres: German counter-attacks east of Ypres, part of Glencorse Wood recaptured.
A horse and a water cart stuck in the mud at Ypres: © IWM (Q 5943): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...049872691904512
A British soldier checking out a “dud” artillery shell in Wytschaete, Belgium: © IWM (Q 5868): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...973099048493057
A Canadian military funeral at a cemetery in Poperinghe, Belgium: © IWM (Q 5875): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...989488517693440

Eastern Front
Battle of Marasesti: Mackensen forces river Sereth at one point, claims 7,000 PoWs, but Romanian resistance stiffens. Rumanian Royal Family leaves Jassy.
An advanced German patrol. Soldiers and horses wear gas masks: https://i1.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...asken.jpg?ssl=1

Naval and Overseas Operations
Atlantic: Sierra Leone convoys start.
South Atlantic: British liner City of Athens (21 lost) sunk by raider Wolf mine near Cape Town.

Political, etc
United Kingdom: Mr. Arthur Henderson resigns position as member of War Cabinet after it rejects his proposal for a peace conference.
Australia: Australian government increases taxes on imported liquor by 3 shillings a gallon for customs and 1 penny a gallon in excise duty.
United States: U.S. Government refuses to issue passports for Stockholm Conference.

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Western Front
Britain: 13 Gotha bombers sent to raid England; 2 turn back (mechanical problems). One shot down by RNAS, 3 crash upon return. Eleven attack Southend with 21t bombs. 139 defence sorties (Gotha shot down by RNAS Pup Flight pilot Sub-Lieutenant H S Kerby), 44 civilian casualties, 3 service casualties. Another source states: 32 killed, 46 injured.
Third Battle of Ypres: Stormy weather in Ypres prevents large scale operations, but heavy artillery fire continues to be exchanged.
A Chinese Labor Corps man unloading sacks of oat at Boulogne: © IWM (Q 2694): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...368201378000897

Eastern Front
In the Carpathians front of Moldavia, Russo-Romanians re-take offensive.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Destroyer HMS Oracle rams and sinks U-44 with all hands off South Norway coast.
Biscay: 2 French destroyers escort in first Brest-bound US troop convoy.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Egyptian Labor Corps men handling stores at Boulogne: © IWM (Q 2703): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...353104618237952

Political, etc
Russia: Ex-Tsar with family moved to Abalak Monastery, Tobolsk, Siberia.
Ex-Tsar Nicholas on the way to Siberia, where the Provisional Government sent him and his family: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...beria.jpg?ssl=1
United States: The NAACP urges oppression against African Americans should be abolished in the fight for democracy.
“Down to Earth,” a romantic comedy starring Douglas Fairbanks, is released: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...%281917%29.webm

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Western Front
Verdun: French 2,400-gun bombardment begins (including 1,100 heavy gun) begins on 12 1/2-mile front until August 20. German artillery fire response 1 million rounds (2,500t) mustard gas shells at French near Verdun (until September 24); 13,158 gassed (143 deaths).
The threatening sight of a night-firing French railroad gun: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...achts.jpg?ssl=1
Royal Flying Corps bombing east of Lens (night August 13-14), 2 German airfields bombed (August 14), 4 Sopwith Two-seaters attack and help disperse 1,600 German infantry on August 15.
A child injured in the German bombing raid at Southend yesterday: © IWM (Q 54001): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...672754686185473

Eastern Front
Russo-Romanian offensive continues favourable to Allies (Ocna region).

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: No 63 Squadron (RE8s) from Western Front arrives at Basra, but 154 out of 230 all ranks soon stricken with fevers and heatstroke, deployment delayed.

Political, etc
Germany: Military region commanders given free hand to suppress strikes.
Eduard Buchner, German chemist who was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on fermentation, passed away: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...687856906887168
United Kingdom: British Government refuse passports for Stockholm Conference (see 10th).
Mr. George Barnes appointed to War Cabinet.
Italy: 40,000 people march against war at Turin (includs a Petrograd Soviet delegation).
United States: First Aero Squadron sails for France (arrives on September 3).
Japanese mission arrives in the U.S. to coordinate issues relating to the war against Germany: https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...748232612753408
Spain: Martial law in Spain as a railway strike grows throughout the country and clashes erupt between police and strikers.

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Eastern Front
Rumania: German Alpenkorps storms Height 334 as Russian VIII Corps flees.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Germany: Scheer writes to Navy Minister Capelle urging a ‘political prosecution’ of the USPD (Independent Social Democratic Party) to expose ‘the roots of the evil’ in the Navy.
North Sea: HM Special Service smack Nelson (Crisp posthumous Victoria Cross) and trawlers Ethel and Millie sunk in gun duel with U-boat on Jim Hove Bank.
Mediterranean: Allied naval conference at Malta extends Calthorpe’s command to Red Sea and Cape St Vincent. Commander Heneage replaces Kerr in command of Adriatic Force. Rear-Admiral Fremantle replaces Thursby in command of Aegean Sea.

Political, etc
Germany: At Berlin Conference Germans reject Czernin’s peace offer of Poland and Galicia for concessions in West.
Italy: Papal Note with proposals for peace sent to belligerent Governments published: http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/papalpeacenote.htm
China: China declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary (see March 14th).

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Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: Battle of Hill 70 (Lens) begins (see 25th). British attack on wide front north-west of Lens to Bois Hugo, north-east of Loos, carry German first lines and penetrate enemy positions to depth of one mile. Canadian Corps (9,198 casualties), supported by c.326 guns and 160 MGs, captures important height of Hill 70 north of Lens plus the 5 nearby villages of Cite Ste. Elizabeth, Ste. Emile and St. Laurent, Bois Rase, and Bois Hugo. Five major German counter-attacks c.24 total German counterattacks repulsed, mauling 5 German divisions (including over 1,170 PoWs).
Official British casualties during the first two weeks of August total 21,722 men killed, wounded, or missing.
Manfred von Richthofen (Red Baron) at a hospital with a bandage on his head. The prop is from a downed British plane. © IWM (Q 52781): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...111862411747329

Eastern Front
Rumania: Austro-Germans retake Soveja as Allies (Romanian 2nd Army and Russian 4th Army) retreat south toward the Sereth; Central Powers also renew offensive in Focsani region.

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: Belgian column under Major Batille advances from Kilosa towards river Ruaha, beats Germans at Kidodi 50 miles south on August 18, drives them from Tepe on August 19 and crosses river Ruaha on August 21.

Political, etc
France: Roman Dmowski’s Polish National Committee set up in Paris.
United Kingdom: US troops pass through London: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...ondon.jpg?ssl=1 Stars and Stripes and Union Jack flown side by side from House of Lords.
War Cabinet decides to send 8 guns to Russia (none sent since March and 150 promised).
Ireland: British police and soldiers raid premises of the Irish National Volunteers in Dublin, taking 100 rifles and 1300 rounds.
Japan: Viscount Ishii, Japanese Ambassador, declares that U.S. and Japan will “march together, work together and fight together as comrades.”
Spain: Spanish government uses artillery in Barcelona and Sabadell to suppress revolutionaries connected to the railway strike.

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Good to see "THE THREAD IS BACK!"

Nice picture of Richthofen! I always think of the movie "The Blue Max" whenever I see a picture of a Fokker DR1.

Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: Battle of Langemarck 1917 begins. (until August 18): British advance on 9-mile front north of Ypres-Menin road, capture Langemarck and cross river Steenbeek, and temporarily capturing all objectives. Furious German counter-attacks only push back British line a short distance, though depleted 16th Irish and 36th Ulster Divisions driven back to start. French marine battalion captures Drie Grachten bridgehead on Yser canal.
Aisne: French advance on Craonne Plateau.
Meuse: Germans capture some trenches on east bank, but French recapture on August 18.
Group of German soldiers captured at Ypres: © IWM (Q 2720): https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...759912117272576

Eastern Front
Russo-Romanian army still retreating before Mackensen's offensive up Sereth valley. Baltareta bridgehead lost.
In Ocna region Germano-Bulgarians take offensive, also in Susitsa valley.
Further South, Romanians hold their ground.

Naval and Overseas Operations
British and German destroyers in inconclusive action in Bight of Heligoland.

Political, etc
Germany: OHL remove General Groener from War Office (to 33rd Division at Verdun), General Scheuch succeeds, but put under War Minister on August 22.
Lieutenant-General Wilhelm Groener (1867-1939) was highly gifted and also politically open-minded, but could not prevail against the rigid attitude in Germany. He will play an important role in the Weimar Republic: https://i2.wp.com/ww2-weapons.com/w...oener.jpg?ssl=1
France: City of Dijon, France considers resolutions to compel children over the age of 12 to work and to send prisoners to the front.
United Kingdom: Prime Minister speech on shipping losses, appeals for canal use instead of railways.
Netherlands: Shipment of several million eggs to Germany is stopped by the Dutch govt when Germany offers to pay for them with paper money, not gold.

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Glad to know you're still enjoying it, DB.

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