Western Front
Since March 19, Escadrille 3 of French Cigognes (Stork) Group (Brocard) has scored 39 confirmed victories and 26 probable in 338 air combats over Verdun and Somme.
Battle of the Somme: German counter-attack until August 20. British advance to Thiepval Ridge.
Battle of Verdun: German attacks at Fleury repulsed; again, these were more likely mere raids, not actually designed to be attacks to gain some territorial advantage.

Eastern Front
German counterattacks against the Russians halt their advance towards Lemberg (Lviv) and recapture territory around Cârlibaba.

Southern Front
Macedonia: Battle of Florina [German name and dates.] ends (see 17th).

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: British Grand Fleet cruisers Nottingham and Falmouth (3 hits each) sunk in actions between 0557 hours and noon (August 20) by U-52, U-63 and U-66, forcing Jellicoe’s 29 battleships northward during fleet moves that bring Beatty (6 battlecruisers) 42 miles north of Scheer before latter turns for home. Harwich Force (5 cruisers and 20 destroyers) shadows but not able to make night torpedo attack as Jellicoe wanted. British mistakenly claim two German submarines destroyed.

Political, etc.
Germany: Ruhr coal miners strike against food shortages and inflation (until around August 28).
Germany apologizes for sinking the Dutch steamer Rijndijk, which was carrying food aid supplies to Belgium.
United Kingdom: Lloyd George on war progress: “I feel for the first time in two years that the nippers are gripping and before long we will hear the crack.”
British news film “Topical Budget,” showing a bomb throwing contest, among other news: http://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/index/5386
British government bans British subjects who have been abroad since March 1st and foreigners from entering Ireland.
United States: A hurricane makes landfall on Texas, resulting in 24 deaths and $28.6 million in damages (about $632 million today).
Greece: Crisis in Greece, owing to Bulgar occupation of Greek territory.

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Love the old film!! The donkey races were so funny.

A little break from the war and all the terrible stuff.

Makes ya wonder how the guys survived mentality.

Western Front
Battle of the Somme: Britain makes small gains north of Bazentin-le-Petit and France advances in the woods between Guillemont and Maurepas.
Great artillery activity on the Somme.

Southern Front
Salonika: Bulgaria takes two Greek forts near the river Struma and advances towards the port city of Kavala.
Sarrail and his five Allied commanders agree to postpone offensive but launch counter-offensive as Bulgar 7th Division causes 380 casualties to retreating French. Serbian General Jurisic-Stürm replaced in command of Third Army by General Vassic.
Serbs throw back Bulgarians in Moglena sector (Balkans).
Secret War: Austro-Hungarians crack new Italian cipher system in 38 hours.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Armenia: IV Caucasus Corps retakes Mus bridge and 500 PoWs.
Persia: Baratov halts on Sultanbulak Pass 50 miles north of Hamadan, has 7,000 fit troops and 22 guns against 17,000 exhausted Turks.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Mediterranean: U-35 (Arnauld) returns to Cattaro after record-breaking 25-day cruise (since July 26) total sinkings with 900 shells and 4 torpedoes: 54 ships (32 Italian carrying 50,000t coal), totalling 91.000t mainly in Western Mediterranean (French patrol areas).

Political, etc.
Germany: Germany announces that this year’s crops exceed those during peace and that there is no need to worry about food supplies.
United Kingdom: Sir Charles Monro is appointed the new commander in chief of British troops in India: http://imgur.com/U5kdGE9
Austria-Hungary: Austro-Montenegrin peace talks broken off.
Canada: A fire at a black powder factory in Drummondville, Quebec results in the deaths of five workers and over a dozen injuries.
United States: President Wilson: “The eight-hour [work] day now undoubtedly has the sanction of the judgement of society in its favor…”

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Western Front
Battle of the Somme: Fresh German counter-attack near Thiepval (2 more to south fail on August 22). Fighting south of Thiepval ends in slight British gain (August 23). British advance on 1/2-mile front northwest of Pozieres.

Southern Front
Salonika: British raiders (4 casualties) blow up 5 bridges east of river Struma (and on August 23).
Allied forces counterattack against Bulgaria, as Anglo-French troops cross the Struma River and Serbian troops move against Monastir.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: Royal Navy submarine E-54 torpedoes and sinks German mine-laying sub UC-10 at Schouwen Bank. The British submarine E-54 running on high speed: http://i0.wp.com/world-war-one.net/...2016/08/E54.jpg

Political, etc.
Germany: Due to protests, Germany cancels a $250,000 fine it levied on occupied Brussels for celebrating Belgian National Day.
Germany and Austria-Hungary warns Romania that allowing Russian troops passage through the country will result in war.
United Kingdom: Almost all exports to Sweden prohibited. Directorate of Graves Registration and Enquiries formed.
Premier Asquith states Germany has yet “to agree to peace except on terms that would be intolerable or humiliating to some of the Allies.”
United States: U.S. men’s soccer (football) team plays its first international match against Sweden in Stockholm. U.S. wins 3-2.

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Western Front
Battle of the Somme: Haig chides Rawlinson for failing to take Guillemont. German counter-attacks at Guillemont repulsed on August 23.
Germans gain a footing in trenches held by French south of Estrees (southern Somme).
Heavy aerial fighting on Somme front.

Eastern Front
Galicia: Turkish 19th (arrived August 13) and 20th Divisions (Gallipoli veterans) take over 12-mile sector between Suedarmee German divisions.
Russians gain heights south of Jablonica Pass (Carpathians).
German attack with gas south-east of Vilna, repulsed.

Southern Front
Italian successes in Dolomites (and on August 24).
Julius Arigi & Johann Lasi of the Austro-Hungarian air force become the 1st “ace in a day” by shooting down 5 Italian aircraft today.
Macedonia: Bulgarian First Army storms Serb ridge west of lake Ostrovo five times only to be thrown off; take only one position on August 23. British lorries bring up Serb reinforcements.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Armenia: Russian offensive west of Lake Van.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: British submarine HMS E-16 is sunk by a mine in Heligoland Blight with the loss of all hands.
Kilosa (German East Africa) taken by British forces. Germans fall back on Morogoro.

Political, etc.
United Kingdom: Mr. Lloyd George in the House of Commons gives survey of military situation; announces 35 Zeppelins destroyed by Allies.
Romania: German correspondent in Bucharest, Romania reports the city has become “grave,” as the “country is getting ready for war.”

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I don't know why but I found todays entry made me really sad. For some reason I kept thinking about the civilians. It doesn't say anything about the bomb shelters, all the homes and families blown away and the unknown to us fear. How did they make it through?

"United Kingdom: Mr. Lloyd George in the House of Commons gives survey of military situation; announces 35 Zeppelins destroyed by Allies."
35 Zeppelins..... and how many fathers, brothers, sons, husbands and lovers were killed?

Gonna go do something fun.

Western Front
Zeppelin raid on east coast of England; LZ-97 scatters 34 bombs over Suffolk (night 23/24), no casualties.
Battle of the Somme: Fighting south of Thiepval results in a slight British gain.
Strong German attacks at Guillemont repulsed.
Fierce artillery duel on French section of Somme front.
Germans form first regular fighter squadron, Jasta (Jagdstaffel) 1 (Captain Martin Zander), Boelcke’s Jasta 2 (August 30), both and two more units assigned to Somme.
Battle of Verdun: French progress south of Fleury.

Southern Front
Italian XVIII Corps begins advance to drive Austrians from Fassa Alp.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Armenia: Russians retake Bitlis (lower Vau).
Persia: Turks defeated at Rayat; 2,300 prisoners.


Naval and Overseas Operations
Return of submarine "Deutschland" to Germany.
East Africa: Smuts’ main advance resumes from Dakawa, but 2nd SA Mounted Brigade checked at Mlali (August 24-26) though 2 German naval guns abandoned.

Political, etc.
United Kingdom: Female workers spinning aeroplane cord at a factory in Wakefield, England: http://imgur.com/SDTKz7N © IWM (Q 109940)
British government reports that German Zeppelin raids against Britain have resulted in 334 civilian deaths and 50 military deaths.
Lloyd George states he sees the end of the war is approaching, while Churchill warns Britain must be prepared to fight even longer.
France: Escort of French General Frachet d’Esperey (nicknamed by the British as “Desperate Franky”) at Saint-Clemens: http://imgur.com/rxSrqQ7 © IWM (Q 70647)
United States: U.S. warns the Ottoman Empire that any massacre of Armenians in Persia will be “regraded with great disfavor.”

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Strategic bombardment fromt he air was still new enough experience that there weren't any bomb shelters (that is, no effort to provide civilians with such); people sheltered in their basements and such like, as they desired. Some Londoners, in a preview of the Second World War, took shelter in the subways.
The National Air & Space Museum, in its Aviation int he First World War gallery, has a German propaganda poster, with a picture of a dirigible hovering over London, searchlights blaring, trying to find it, and a huge crowd, panicked and running for the tube entrance. The caption reads, "Zeppelin kommt!" (The Zeppelin is coming!).
In fact, there is no record of anyone panicking due to an air raid, either by dirigibles, or by fixed-wing aircraft; although one of the earliest civilian deaths in Britain is that of an old lady by heart attack, claimed to have been brought onto by the shock of being bombed from the air.
British civilians were often slow to take cover, in fact: several of the casualties atributed to German bombs, were in fact, caused by falling pieces of anti-aircraft shells.


While the number of dirigibles (not by a long shot were all of them "Zeppelins") imagined destroyed to date was far in excess of those that actually were, the actual number is quibbling. You point still stands. And from there, we can logically proceed to those killed and maimed at sea, in the wasteful Battles of the Somme & Verdun on the Western front, the something like 12 Battles of the Isonzo in Italy, the failed offensives by Russia in Eastern Europe, the...yeah, the list really is never ending.

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So sad and such a waste of lives.

Ahhhh.... that's the way it goes I guess.

OK, now i'll read todays post and think only of the facts.


PS. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I did not know there were no bomb shelters then.

Western Front
6 of 12 Zeppelins (L-13 damaged by cruiser Conquest) cross Eastern Coast, L-31 drops 44 bombs on East London (first since October 14, 1915), causing 49 civilian casualties (night August 24-25); 2 of 15 defending aircraft crash on landing (thunderstorms thwart 8-Zeppelin raid on August 29).
French Morane biplane at the Esquennoy aerodrome: http://imgur.com/TKrqohs © IWM (Q 56599)
Battle of the Somme: British GHQ letter to General Rawlinson (Fourth Army) emphasizes it is vital to secure Ginchy, Guillemont and Falfemont Farm without delay. Foch’s co-operation secured (August 25); attack to be launched on August 29 but thunderstorms postpone it repeatedly to September 3. German attacks west of Ginchy. British advance towards Thiepval and Delville Wood. French battalion Frere (2nd battalion, 1st Regiment, 1st Division) advances 250 yards and completes the capture of Maurepas village (until August 25) from Bavarians.

Southern Front
Italian troops continue their advance in the Dolomites, taking positions in the Fassa valley from Austria-Hungary.
Salonika: Greek IV Corps hands over forts north of Kavalla to Bulgars. Royal Navy monitor Picton shells the Bulgar troops in two villages on coast.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Armenia: Mush and 2,300 prisoners again taken by Russian forces (see 15th, and April 30th, 1917) on way to Mosul.

Naval and Overseas Operations
North Sea: British Battleships Valiant and Warspite (only just out of Battle of Jutland repairs) collide, repairs until September 28.
H.M.S. Duke of Albany, boarding S.S., torpedoed and sunk.

Political, etc.
Germany: German government announces that meat will be rationed starting on October 2nd with a maximum 250 grams of meat per week.
United Kingdom: Harold Cressy, teacher, activist, and the first black man to earn a degree in South Africa, passed away: http://imgur.com/KVVtlTb
France: Anglo-French Conference on finance held at Calais.
French Army orders its soldiers to shave except their mustaches. An estimated 120 tons of beards will be shaved.
Austria-Hungary: Austria-Hungary increases its control and surveillance of ethnic Romanians in its territory as Romania prepares to enter the war.
Austria-Hungary loots the artifacts and treasures of Visoki Dečani, a Serbian Orthodox monastery built in the 14th century.

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Western Front
Battle of the Somme: British secure Delville Wood and repulse attacks south of Thiepval.
Champagne: German attack west of Tahure repulsed.
Ypres: New 4th Canadian Division arrives.
Battle of Verdun: Germans active in Verdun region.

Eastern Front
Dobruja: Russian Dobruja Detachment (50,000 men in 3 divisions) crosses Danube into Rumania, invades Bulgaria (August 27).

Southern Front
Macedonia: Bulgars occupy Seres in northeast Greece.

Political, etc.
United Kingdom: Correspondence between British and Swedish Governments about the detention of mail packets by either Government is published.
United States: New York City estimates the ongoing polio epidemic in the city has caused 1760+ deaths & left 1000 children crippled for life.

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Western Front
Battle of the Somme: German counter-attack near Thiepval. Australians capture heavily fortified Mouquet Farm. (Both also reported for yesterday). 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment returning from Thiepval and wearing captured German trophies: http://imgur.com/5P5uqj4 © IWM (Q 3930)
British take a short length of German trench north of Bazentin-le-Petit.

Eastern Front
2 French pilots arrive at Bucharest, Romania, from Verdun via London, Oslo and Archangel; request 50 pilots and 55 aircraft from Paris.
Galicia: Russians make slight advance towards Halicz.

Southern Front
Salonika: Activity on left flank of Salonika front.
Serbs beat off Bulgar counter-attacks north-west of Kukuruz and progress in Ostrovo region.
Macedonia: Bulgarian troops continue to push into Greece and have captured 50 square miles of Eastern Macedonia.
General Moschopoulos appointed Chief of Greek General Staff in place of General Dusmanis.

Naval and Overseas Operations
Adriatic: Austrian air raid sinks a Royal Navy Otranto drifter (96 on strength on September 10; spending 10 days at sea, 3 1/2 in port).
East Africa: Rhodesians and Baluchis occupy Morogoro on Central Railway (Smuts enters August 27), 115 miles east of Dar-es-Salaam; 28,000 British oxen lost since May 25. Lake Force begins advance south on Tabora, awaits news from Belgians 50 miles to west.

Political, etc.
Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm attempts to send Duke Albrecht as a special envoy to the Romanian King, but King Ferdinand rebuffs the Kaiser’s moves.
United States: President Wilson signs the “Organic Act,” which establishes the U.S. National Park Service.
Romania: Romanian Council of Ministers increases credit for its army from $40 million to $120 million, as Romania prepares for war.

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Western Front
Storms hit the Western Front, bringing to a halt major operations. Small attacks are beaten back by both sides.
British and French aeroplanes bomb Ghent and hit an ammunition depot, causing several civilian casualties.
France claims they shot down five German aeroplanes today; Germany also claims they shot down 5 Allied planes.
Battle of the Somme: British 3rd Brigade attack Grevillers.

Eastern Front
In nothing short of a blatant land-grab, Rumanian Government orders mobilisation and declares war on Austria-Hungary (see 17th and 28th). RUMANIA INVADES HUNGARIAN TRANSYLVANIA (Austria-Hungary) via eight major passes, a month earlier than Falkenhayn expected; Kaiser’s reaction ‘The war is lost’.
Russians attempt to revive the Brusilov offensive, in the Carpathians: Lechitski (17 divisions) attacks on 75-mile front between Nadworna and Dorna Watra, takes Mt Pantyr (August 29).

Southern Front
Italy declares war on Germany (to this date, having only officially been at war with Austria-Hungary, and possibly Bulgaria.)
Salonika: Some ground gained by Serbs near Vetrenik in a general offensive.

Naval and Overseas Operations
East Africa: British 1st and 2nd Divisions link on Railway 12 miles east of Kilosa.

Political, etc.
Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm orders the postponement of any executions of French prisoners both civilian and military.
United Kingdom: British railroad union members march in Hyde Park to protest the increasing cost of living.
Russia: Russia states it is willing to cooperate with the U.S. to feed starving Polish civilians under German occupation.
Romania: During the Crown Council session at Cotroceni Palace, King Ferdinand rebuffs opposition to split with Berlin ‘Then I have conquered the Hohenzollern who was in me, I fear no one’.
United States: Democratic Senator Reed of Missouri accuses the Republican “old guard, in control of the party and the candidate, want a corrupt election.”
Greece: Venizelos addresses Athens protest meeting against King’s policy (Metaxas dismissed August 26).

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Western Front
Battle of the Somme: Army Group Crown Prince Rupprecht created for duration. General Gallwitz in command of German Second Army records that since June 26 1,068 field guns of 1,208 plus 379 of 820 heavy guns have been captured, destroyed or become unserviceable in his two armies.
British troops eating rations in a ruined house in Mametz: http://imgur.com/YL4UT0G © IWM (Q 4182)
Battle of Verdun: French gain ground south-east of Thiaumont work and repulse German attacks against Fleury and against a position near Vaux Fort.

Eastern Front
Germany declares war on Romania.
Prince Leopold of Bavaria replaces Hindenburg as C-in-C East (Hoffmann his CoS is the “real” chief; the reflects a widely misunderstood aspect of the German Command Structure.).
Austro-Hungarian river monitors shell Danube towns in Romania.
First German Army Zeppelin raid on Bucharest (night August 28/29, 4 more in September).

Southern Front
Serbians progress east of Cherna River.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
General Sir Stanley Maude succeeds Lieut.-General Sir Percy Lake as Commander-in-Chief, Mesopotamia. Major-General Cobbe (Victoria Cross) takes over Tigris Corps which now has 64 river steamers supplying 460t per day (but 560t needed), 3 railways being built. 11,000 troops invalided out in August.
Armenia: Encounters take place south of Erzerum.

Political, etc.
France: Around a thousand Chinese laborers arrive at Lyons, France to work in munition factories.

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Thanks for including the old pictures. A picture tells a thousand words.

I am surprised at the quality of them actually. And surprised they are still around.