Western Front
Second Battle of Noyon: British attack on front of 33 miles from Mercatel (5 miles south of Arras) to Lihons (north-west of Chaulnes).
Second Battle of the Somme: Main attack by BEF Third and Fourth Armies now on 33-mile front supported by 100 tanks, former advances 2 miles, across Arras-Bapaume road (5,000 PoWs taken), advancing on Bapaume from north and north-west. Australians capture 2,000 PoWs and 23 guns, Bray and Chuignes (including one 15-inch gun, disabled 9, used from July to shell Amiens 15 miles to West); 4 Fourth Army divisions continue advance by moonlight. Around Albert British capture high ground to east. South of Somme British capture Chuignolles (on Peronne road).
British private wearing shirtsleeves, shorts, cap and puttees escorts German PoWs to the rear during Second Battle of Albert:
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Western Front, Air: 2 German Jasta 34b fighters disable 2 British tanks with armor-piercing ammo, one is Bavarian Oblt Ritter von Greim’s 23rd (of 26) victories (last Luftwaffe C-in-C in 1945). Wireless Central Info Bureau co-ordinates RAF ground attacks.
A British Royal Engineer fish by throwing a bomb into a canal at Le Sart, France: © IWM (Q 6991):
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British troops recapture the town of Albert, France: © IWM (Q 11206):
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The destroyed cathedral of Albert, France after its capture by the British:
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Two British soldiers take cover as a German shell lands in front of them at Meaulte, France: © IWM (Q 7089):
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Eastern Front
Volga: Red First Army defeats Czechs, retakes 3 villages south of Kazan.
Southern Front
Albania: Austro-Hungarians renew attacks on Italian positions.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Siberia: Battle of Dukhovskaya (until August 24): Allies win first real action vs Reds, regain Krevsk position, take 2 MGs and destroy 2 armored trains but little Japanese co-operation. Grigori Semyonov advances from Manchuria Station and defeats Bolsheviks.
Political, etc
Russia: Vladimir Lenin tells Moscow Polytechnic Museum meeting that world revolution will come, time not predictable.
United Kingdom: Lord Robert Cecil (Assistant Foreign Secretary) on Dr. Solf's speech of 20 August 1918.