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Line 1: <noinclude>{{Calendar\|August}}{{Date-introtext}}</noinclude>__NOTOC__ ==1914== ===Western Front=== Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener calls for 100,000 men to help expand the British Armies in a fight against a formidable enemy. [[Belgium]]: Main army falls back towards the Dyle. [[Alsace]]: French occupy [[Altkirch]] and [[Mülhausen]]. ===Naval and Overseas Operations=== [[Antivari (Montenegro)]] bombarded by Austrian fleet. [[Togoland]] entered by combined French and British force. ===Political=== [[Russia]]: [[Nicholas II of Russia\|Tsar]] addresses the Duma. [[Switzerland]] mobilises and proclaims state of siege. [[USA]] offers its good services. ==References / notes==▼ ~~==1916==~~ {{Gleichen-123}} Battalion situated in the Cambrin Sector.<ref name="wdaug16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, August 1916]]</ref> 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.<ref name="wdaug16" /> ~~==1917==~~ Battalion involved in training at Coxyde under [[Company]] Arrangements.<ref name="wdaug17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, August 1917]]</ref> ~~==1918==~~ The British [[Fourth Army]] and the French Third Army attack the village of [[Albert (place)\|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> ▲==References / notes== {{reflist}} <noinclude>

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