Western Front
Battle of Belleau Wood: No Significant developments, but the battle continues.
British line on Lys front advanced south-west of Meteren.
580 LK II light tanks ordered from Daimler, none ever delivered before armistice.
The German light tank LK II with 5.7 cm (2.24in) gun. The characteristics of a captured British Whippet tank were built into a modified chassis, but until the armistice only prototypes were ready:
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Red Cross nurse serving American soldiers donuts and coffee:
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...136589111119872
British motorbikes armed with machineguns on the sidecar: © IWM (Q 9003):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...166792659111936
British tanks being washed down in Érin, France: © IWM (Q 6825):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...196987814215680
Battalion of the Royal Scots out on a patrol at Meteren, France: © IWM (Q 6737):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...466260625260544
Eastern Front
North Russia: British ‘Syren’ and ‘Elope’ forces (600 men under Major-General Maynard) join North Russian Expedition Force at Murmansk; Maynard and 30 men head down Murmansk Railway (June 27), seize it to Soroka (June 29-30) sending back 3 Red troop trains.
Volga: Civilian Kliment Voroshilov put in command of 1,000-strong Red Tsaritsyn Group (probably by Stalin).
Southern Front
Second Battle of the Piave: Austro-Hungarians in disordered retreat from Montello to the sea; heavy losses. Italian Eighth Army reoccupies Nervesa at 1300 hours and then whole of Montello; Third Army captures 2,000 PoWs in Candelu-Zenson sector (Middle Piave).
End of Second Battle of the Piave.
First capture of intact Austrian Berg D-I fighter (best indigenous Austrian combat type), forced to land at Treviso by Italian fighters. Up to 50 RAF aircraft help harry Austrian retreat.
Austro-Hungarian Aviatik D-I biplane brought down on the Italian Front: © IWM (Q 68863):
https://twitter.com/CenturyAgoToday...436063859544064
City of Nervesa after it was recaptured by Italian and other Allied troops: © IWM (Q 26120):
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Group of wounded American soldiers receiving cigarettes at a Red Cross hospital in Vittel, France:
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Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: White Provisional Siberian Government formed at Omsk, general mobilization soon proclaimed.
Political, etc
Austria-Hungary: Resignation of Dr. Ernst Ritter von Seidler.
United Kingdom: Anglo-American Union proposed by Lord Reading.
Canadian children laying down flowers on the graves of Canadian soldiers buried at Shorncliffe, Kent:
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