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Royal Flying Corps biplane on reconnaisance, August 1916, John Warwick Brooke. Image courtesy Imperial War Museum © IWM (Q 4153).

Royal Flying Corps biplane on reconnaisance, Somme, August 1916, John Warwick Brooke. Image courtesy Imperial War Museum © IWM (Q 4153).

  • Heavy aerial fighting continues on the Somme front
  • German soldiers gain a footing in French trenches south of Estrees in the southern Somme
  • Russian troops advance to the heights south of Jablonica Pass in the Carpathian Mountains on the Eastern Front
  • General Jacob Louis Van Deventer’s South African Mounted Brigade marches unopposed into Kilosa in German East Africa, where new headquarters are established. German soldiers retreat to Morogoro.