Western Front
Raymond Collishaw is credited with first aerial victory. He goes on to become the Royal Naval Air Service's leading ace, with a total of 60 kills.
No 3 Wing RNAS, first British strategic bombing unit, flies first major operation from Luxeuil (Vosges) with 21 aircraft (3 lost) against Mauser small-arms factory in Oberndorf; 34 French aircraft (6 lost) participate. German fighters attack at the target and back.
Battle of the Somme: British attack on 4-mile front Eaucourt-Bapaume, gain 500-1000 yards. French claim to have taken 40,125 PoWssince July 1.
Eastern Front
Transylvania: German and Austro-Hungarian troops pursue the Romanian 2nd Army to the frontier.
Fierce fighting round Brod (Cherna front).
Carso front Bulgarian counter-attacks completely repulsed.
Southern Front
Eighth Battle of the Isonzo ends (see 9th). Italians push Austrians east of river Vallano. Operations suspended in evening after a claimed total of 8,200 PoWs taken in 2-mile advance for 24,000 casualties.
Salonika: British War Office committee ‘We have had to deal with a specially virulent … malarial infection in a body of troops unseasoned to tropical conditions’ (304 deaths to November 11, 1916.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theaters
Mesopotamia: Publication of Despatch of 12 August 1916 from Lt.-Gen. Sir P. Lake relative to operations in Mesopotamia, 19 January to 30 April 1916.
Political, etc.
Germany: At the German Reichstag, Socialist leader Philipp Scheidemann declares, “We declare openly and clearly that the nation wants peace.”
United States: Wilson Women’s Wagon”-women supporters of President Wilson’s reelection:
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Greece: Admiral Fournet demands Allied control of police, no Greek citizens to carry arms, no war material to Thessaly, but wheat exports can be resumed.