Western Front
Third Battle of Ypres: 4 British divisions and 12 tanks fight north of St Julien; sea of mud restricts progress to 2,000 yards.
British troops attempt to free a field gun from the mud at Ypres:
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A British soldier emerging from his dug-out at Oosttaverne, Belgium: © IWM (Q 5915):
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British capture Gerrman positions east of Hargicourt (north-west of St. Quentin) on front of over one mile to depth of 0.5 mile. Germans recapture post lost on 24 August.
"Second Offensive Battle" of Verdun: French XXXII Corps on east bank of Meuse reaches Beaumont outskirts, repulses counter-attack on August 27.
Somme: British III Corps captures 1/2 mile of position east of Hargicourt, northwest of St Quentin.
Eastern Front
Renewed Central Powers attacks east of Czernowitz; Germans claim 1,000 prisoners.
Southern Front
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo: Practically whole of Bainsizza Plateau in Italian hands; claim 23,000 prisoners to date; Italians fail at Jenelik.
Austro-Hungarian soldiers at Iwanigrad in a hillside dug-out:
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Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Emperor Charles’ letter to Kaiser Wilhelm:
‘The experience of our eleventh (Isonzo) battle convinces me that the twelfth will be very hard … it is best to overcome the difficulties with an offensive’ asks for Austrian East Front divisions and German guns, ‘My entire army considers the war against Italy as “our war”.’
Bulgaria: Bulgarian Premier demands annexations of Macedonia, Dobruja, and the Aegean coast for jointing the Central Powers.
Belgium: Belgian officials protest German attempts to divide the occupied country into two between Flanders and Wallonia.