Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres (aka the
Battle of Passchendaele):
Battle of Pilckem Ridge ends after max advance of 3,000 yards by 9 British divisions costs 31,850 casualties. Waterlogged shell holes began to appear.
German forces counterattack Allied lines and retake St. Julien and half of Westhoeck.
Then near Ypres, British forces retake positions between St. Julien and the Ypres-Roulers railway that were taken by the Germans.
Two pack mules carrying artillery shells through the Ypres mud: © IWM (Q 5941):
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British stretcher bearers carrying a wounded soldier through the mud during the 3rd Battle of Ypres: © IWM (Q 5935):
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British artillery gunners struggling through the mud pulling a field gun: © IWM (Q 5938):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...692727313440768
Artois: Germans storm some trenches on ‘Infantry Hill’ (Monchy-Arras).
British news-film “Topical Budget,” showing German prisoners at reconstruction work and other news:
http://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/index/5418
Eastern Front
Battle of Marasesti: Battle of Mărăști ends in a marginal Romanian victory after retaking 500 square kilometers from Austria-Hungary and Germany.
Southern Front
Austria: 20 of 36 Capronis (10 damaged by anti-aircraft fire) reach Pola, drop 8t bombs on naval base (night August 2-3); 28 planes repeat it on night August 8-9.
Naval and Overseas Operations
A Sopwith Pup piloted by Squadron Leader E.H. Dunning, becomes the first aircraft to land on a ship at sea (that is, actually underway, as opposed to anchored). The aircraft successfully lands on the aircraft carrier HMS
Furious, but Dunning is killed two days later while attempting a similar landing.
In this picture a Sopwith Strutter with side-slips launches from an aircraft carrier:
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North Sea: At Wilhelmshaven 600 men of German battleship
Prinzregent Luitpold (after over 9 months idle in harbor) led by anarchist stokers Johann Beckers and Albin Kobis strike and stage mass walkout against draconian discipline and meagre rations, march back to ship. Kobis shouts ‘Down with the war! We no longer want to fight this war !’
Mutiny in German Fleet is crushed (temporarily), 18 arrested, 100s of men with ‘bad political attitudes’ transferred to shore statins or Flanders naval infantry brigade; 5 court-martialled for mutiny. Kobis and Seaman Reichpietsch of flagship
Friedrich der Grosse sentenced to death (August 25) by firing-squad, carried out on September 5.
Pacific: German sailing ship raider
Seeadler wrecked on Lord Howe Island (now Mopelia Island), having sunk 16 (6 British) ships or 30,099t in South Atlantic (45 PoWs). Captain Luckner and 5 crew captured in motor boat, Chilean schooner rescues rest.
The
Seeadler:
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Political, etc
Germany: German war council, headed by Kaiser Wilhelm and attended by high military officials, meets in occupied Brussels.
France: Admiral Marie-Jean-Lucien Lacaze (Minister of Marine) and M. Denys Cochin (Under Secretary Foreign Affairs) resign from French Cabinet.
Italy: Pope Benedict XV issues a seven-point peace plan to the belligerent powers:
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/papalpeacenote.htm
United States: Frank Little, an American labor leader, is lynched in Butte, Montana for his pro-labor and anti-war activities:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...403362184003584
Resolution for a Constitutional amendment concerning the prohibition of alcohol is passed by the U.S. Senate 65 to 20.
Members of President Wilson’s Cabinet doing exercises. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt is in the foreground:
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13 and 14-year-old boys working in a tobacco farm at Buckland, Connecticut:
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