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):
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Barbers of the British 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment working at Dickebusch, Belgium: © IWM (Q 5850):
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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:
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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:
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