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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 5 August.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 5 August on The Great War wiki.

1914

• Template:WF - Liège: Fort Fléron silenced.
• Template:NO - SS Königin Luise, German mine-layer, destroyed. SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau reach Messina.
• Template:PO - Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.
  •  Great Britain mobilises.
  •  Lord Kitchener is made War Secretary.

1915

• Template:WF - Heavy fighting in the Vosges and at Hill 213 (Argonne).
• Template:EF - Capture of Ivangorod by Austrians. Germans enter Warsaw.
• Template:SF - Italian airship captured at Pola. Progress on the Carso by Italians.
  •  General Sarrail succeeds General Gouraud as Commander in Chief in Near East.
• Ae –  - Russians capture Turkish positions near Olti and Sarikamish (Transcaucasia) and repel counter-attacks.
• Template:PO - Strike in Belgian coal district.
  •  Germans fire on strikers.
  •  Russian Ministry of Munitions proposed.
  •  Duma votes 35 million roubles for refugees.

References/notes

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