19 August

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August

Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 19 August.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 19 August on The Great War wiki.

1914

1915

  • Template:WF - Germans retake trenches on Ablain-Angres road.
  • Template:EF - Fall of Novo Georgievsk. Russians driven back between Augustovo and Osovyets (Northern Centre).
    •  Germans progress beyond the Niemen east of Tykocin.
    •  Mackensen reaches Piszcza and gains ground towards Brest-Litovsk.
  • Ae –  - Turks prevent Italians leaving Smyrna.
  • Template:NO - USA liner Arabic (White Star) torpedoed and sunk. Americans on board.
    •  German force landing at Pernau (Riga) destroyed by Russians.
    •  Norwegian mail steamer Haakon VII stopped by Germans and mails seized. Norwegian Government protests.
    •  British submarine HMS E13 shelled when aground at Saltholm in neutral Danish waters.
  • Template:PO - Reichstag opened; speech by Chancellor. Bulgarian Foreign Minister resigns.
    •  British forces total 3,825,000, including Colonial troops.

References/notes

Lord Edward Gleichen (1918–1920). Chronology of the War. Volumes I, II & III. Constable & Company, London. (Copyright expired)

  1. Extract from Order reported issued by the Emperor, 19 August, 1914, H.Q., Aix-la-Chapelle:- "It is my Royal and Imperial Command that you concentrate your energies....to exterminate first the treacherous English, and to walk over General French's contemptible little army."