Western Front
Second Battle of the Marne: Battle of Soissons or the
Battle of Soissonais and of the Ourcq phase: General retreat of Germans on Marne toward Epernay.
Partial capture of Buzancy by Scottish Division.
With this, the
Battle of Soissons peters out.
Major Edward Mannock VC is shot down and killed by ground fire after shooting down a German LVG at very low altitude near the German front line at Lestrem. Although authors have quoted varying victory totals for this pilot, current research suggests that the LVG was Major Mannock's sixty-first kill.
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A German baggage train on a congested road on the Western Front:
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An American machine designed to dig trenches: © IWM (Q 70732):
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Black Watch soldiers about to encamp near Saint-Imoges during the 2nd Battle of the Marne: © IWM (Q 11093):
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Blind women putting together magazines and books written in braille for wounded soldiers blinded in the war:
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Eastern Front
Bulk of French Expeditionary Force troops join the North Russia Expeditionary Force at Murmansk (see June 23rd).
Southern Front
A Swiss soldier in the high Alps observing the fighting between Italy and Austria-Hungary:
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Eastern Front/West Asia Border Theater
Azerbaijan: Central Caspian Dictatorship of five topple Reds in Baku and invite Dunsterforce. Turks capture 1 British Duncar and 2 lorries to west.
Naval and Overseas Operations
Mozambique: 28 Gold Coast Mounted Infantry surprise German baggage train on river Ligonha, take 21 porters and 2 Germans, but most captors and PoWs taken on July 27 leaving only 65 out of 165 troopers.
Political, etc
United Kingdom: British Government declare to M. Petrov that they have no intention of infringing the territorial integrity of Russia (see August 6th).
Government issues official warning to striking munition workers: after 29 July, alternative is return to work or military service.
Women factory workers arriving to work at a munitions factory in Gretna: © IWM (HU 82171):
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Japan: Japan announces that it will join the Allied intervention against Soviet Russia in order to assist the Czechoslovak legion and oppose Bolshevism.
United States: Airplane number 1000 is completed inside the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company to be shipped to France:
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