5 August
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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.[1]
- 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)
- ↑ The SMS Breslau is chased into Messina Harbour by British cruisers. Owing to misunderstanding she escapes with the SMS Goeben on 6 August.