Western Front
At Verdun, veteran French troops attack German lines on the Meuse and take 1.5 miles of trenches.
A British dressing station built under a ruined house at Ecoust-Saint-Mein, France: © IWM (Q 5689):
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German raids south of St. Quentin and north-west of Verdun.
Eastern Front
Galicia: “Kerensky” Or “Second Brusilov (Summer)” Offensive: Battle of Dvinsk (Also known as the Battle of East Galicia): (until July 25): German Armeeabteilung D (Kirchbach) repels Denikin’s West Front.
Russian PoWs move with their machine guns towards collecting points:
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Naval and Overseas Operations
Atlantic: British submarine
C34 is sunk by the German submarine
U-52 off Fair Isle in Shetland.
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Mediterranean: French tell Greek Minister of Marine, Fleet to be returned in batches, first cruiser
Helle, 4 destroyers and torpedo boat by August 13.
Italy: Vice-Admiral Del Bono Minister of Marine for duration of war.
Baltic: 2 destroyers sail from Helsinki with 100-strong delegations supporting ‘July Days Rising’; both arrested. Kerensky condemns Fleet’s disloyalty (July 20) and appoints Destroyer Division Commander, Captain Alexander V Razvozov, Rear-Admiral and C-in-C, aged 38 (July 20) after cashiering the hapless Verderevski. Centrobalt command dissolved on July 23 temporarily.
Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Arz memo says only Rumanian food imports sustaining Monarchy till new harvest.
Russia: Russian ‘July Days’ Rising (until July 19): Officer Cadets smash Pravda offices, Lenin goes into hiding and fears assassination. Russian troops loyal to the Provisional Government arrive in Petrograd to put down pro-Bolshevik demonstrators. Martial law is proclaimed.
United Kingdom: Sir Eric Cambell-Geddes becomes the new First Lord of the Admiralty:
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Canada: Petition to extend the Canadian Parliament will not be put forward.
Australia: Australian repatriation scheme introduced.