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Line 1: <noinclude>{{Calendar\|August}}{{Date-introtext}}</noinclude>__NOTOC__ ==1914 (Saturday)== Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener calls for 100,000 men to help expand the British Armies in a fight against a formidable enemy. {{WF}} - [[Belgium]]: Main army falls back towards the Dyle. ** [[Alsace]]: French occupy [[Altkirch]] and [[Mülhausen]]. {{NO}} - [[Antivari (Montenegro)]] [[bombarded]] by Austrian fleet. * [[Togoland]] entered by combined French and British force. {{PO}} - [[Russia]]: [[Nicholas II of Russia\|Tsar]] addresses the Duma. * [[Switzerland]] mobilises and proclaims state of siege. ** [[USA]] offers its good services. ==~~1915~~1916 (Tuesday)== Battalion situated in the Cambrin Sector. {{EF}} - Germans attack [[Kovna]], repulsed with heavy losses. [[Novo Georgievsk]] cut off in the east. Praga ([[Warsaw]]) is occupied. Mackensen forces Russians back across the [[Wieprz\|Veprj]]. Four Officers commanding the Battalions in the 96th Infantry Brigade visit Lonsdale Battalion H.Q. They called for the purpose of getting information of the [[trench]]es which they are to take over. {{SF}} - [[Monfalcone]] dockyard (northern [[Adriatic]]) bombed.  Night raid by Austrians into Italian positions in [[Trentino]].  British attack on Anafarta ([[Gallipoli]]) repulsed. {{AE}} - [[Bushire]] (Persian Gulf) occupied by British as reprisal for two officers killed there on [[12 July]]. {{NO}} - German Fleet attacks Riga and is repulsed. ** {{HMS\|Ramsay}} sunk by German steamer ''Meteor'' (blown up to avoid capture). {{HMS\|India}}, auxiliary cruiser, torpedoed off Norway. {{PO}} - German unsuccessful peace tentatives to [[Russia]] through [[Denmark]]. * Naval General Service Medal instituted. ==1917 (Wednesday)== ~~==References/notes==~~ Battalion involved in training at Coxyde under [[Company]] Arrangements. ~~{{Gleichen-123}}~~ ~~{{reflist}}~~ ==1918 (Thursday)== The British [[Fourth Army]] and the French Third Army attack the village of [[Albert (Somme)\|Albert]] with tanks under Sir Douglas Haig. The Germans are completely surprised as the [[Allies]] break through the lines taking thousands of prisoners and hundreds of guns.<ref name="odhams">{{Odhams\|pageno=4}}</ref> <br/> <!--{{notes}}-->{{refs}}{{acks}} <noinclude> [[Category:Events by day\|221]]