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==19141916==
*Battalion situated in the Cambrin Sector. [[Brigadier General]] Yatman of the 96th Infantry [[Brigade]] visits Battalion HQ.<ref name="wdaug16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, August 1916]]</ref>
*{{WF}} [[Belgium]]: French cavalry in Belgium.
*{{EF}} [[East Prussia]]: Russian First Army advancing.
*{{NO}} {{HMS|Birmingham}}, cruiser, sinks German submarine U15.
*Battalion involved in training at Coxyde under [[Company]] Arrangements.<ref name="wdaug17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, August 1917]]</ref>
*{{PO}} [[Germany]], by means of Holland, offers terms of peace to Belgium; they are rejected.
*{{HF}} [[Zeppelin]] [[air raid]] on Goole, East Riding and Dover begins. One airship is destroyed at [[Dunkirk]].
*{{WF}} British recapture [[trench]]es at [[Hooge]]. French air-raid on Saarbrücken.
*{{EF}} [[Osovyets]] evacuated and destroyed by Russians. Night attack on [[Kovna]] fortress; Germans lose three battalions in Russian counter-attack. Germans advance east of [[Warsaw]].
*{{SF}} Heavy [[Anzac]] losses; Turks getting stronger.
*{{AE}} Jerusalem-Beersheba railway opened. Turkish attacks at [[Olti]] and Passin ([[Armenia]]) repulsed. 255,000 Armenians from [[Van]] migrate into [[Transcaucasia]].
*{{NO}} Gadji ([[Cameroons]]) reported evacuated by Germans after French operations. {{HMS|Lynx}}, destroyer, mined and sunk. Turkish battleship ''Kheir-ed-Din Barbarossa'' torpedoed by British submarine.
*{{PO}} Italian Consuls throughout [[Turkey]] preparing to leave.
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