Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: Slight advance by British troops on Ypres-Poelcapelle road in which 12 tanks (1 ditched) capture pillboxes at St Julien for 26 casualties; Germans retake briefly on August 25.
A British tank was stuck in the mud during the Ypres battle:
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A French and British soldier toast each other with French ration wine at Boezinge, near Ypres: © IWM (Q 2742):
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A British soldier trying on captured German body-armor at Ypres: © IWM (Q 2733):
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German General Erich von Ludendorff inspecting officers of Jagdstaffel 11. Von Richthofen’s (Red Baron) plane is in the background:
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Eastern Front
Galicia and Bukovina: Germans claim 22,000 PoWs in recent fighting.
Rumania: Mackensen attacks at Marasesti (until August 20) with 4 divisions and 3-hour shelling but Averescu regains lost ground when General Popescu’s 47th and 51st Regiments (13th Division) bayonet charge through Razoave Forest, lull till August 28.
Southern Front
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo: Italian attack on 30-mile front in Carso (between Mrzli Vrh and sea). Carry Austrian first line east of Isonzo from Plava to sea (25 miles); 7,500 prisoners. 12 Italian battalions across river; Hill 300 taken by Badoglio’s II Corps and many advances uphill. Italian Third Army attacks on Carso (until August 23) but operations suspended after minimal gains (except to Diaz’s XXIII Corps) for heavy losses.
Political, etc
United States: (Listed for yesterday): 6 women suffragists arrested for demonstrating at the White House with banners and pickets are sentenced to 30 days in a workhouse.
American Boy Scouts demonstrating different types of gas masks:
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Greece: Two looks at yesterday’s fire in Thessaloniki:
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