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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 8 August.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 8 August on The Great War wiki.

1914

• Template:WF - Belgium: Main army falls back towards the Dyle.
  •  Alsace: French occupy Altkirch and Mülhausen.
• Template:NO - Antivari (Montenegro) bombarded by Austrian fleet.
  •  Togoland entered by combined French and British force.
• Template:PO - Russia: Tsar addresses the Duma.
  •  Switzerland mobilises and proclaims state of siege.
  •  USA offers its good services.

1915

• Template: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 Veprj.
• Template: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.
• Template: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.
• Template:PO - German unsuccessful peace tentatives to Russia through Denmark.
  •  Naval General Service Medal instituted.

References/notes

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