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Daily Mail on 5 August 1914. The United Kingdom entered World War I on 4 August 1914, when King George V declared war after the expiry of an ultimatum to the German Empire. The official explanation focused on protecting Belgium as a neutral country; the main reason, however, was to prevent a French defeat that would have left Germany in control ...
By 1918, photographic images could be taken from 15,000 feet (4,600 m), and interpreted by over 3,000 personnel. Planes did not carry parachutes until 1918, though they had been available since before the war. [79] On 17 August 1917, General Jan Smuts presented a report to the War Council on the future of air power. Because of its potential for ...
The Ottoman lines resist a British attack. April 22 – May 8 ... (Continuation of British operations near Lens). August 16–18 ... The British enter the city ...
Portugal during World War I. The Kingdom of Portugal had been allied with England since 1373, and thus the Republic of Portugal was an ally of the United Kingdom. However, Portugal remained neutral from the start of World War I in 1914 until early 1916. However, in that year and a half there were many hostile engagements between Germany and ...
6 August 1914 Currency and Bank Notes Act 1914 authorises the issue of paper £1 and 10 shilling notes. [4] 7 August 1914 The British Expeditionary Force arrives in France. 8 August 1914 The Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (widely known as "DORA") is passed, imposing, censorship and security controls on the civil population. [7] 12 August 1914
The Allied counteroffensive, known as the Hundred Days Offensive, began on 8 August 1918, with the Battle of Amiens. The battle involved over 400 tanks and 120,000 British, Dominion, and French troops, and by the end of its first day a gap 24 kilometres (15 mi) long had been created in the German lines.
At the beginning of 1914 the British Army had a reported strength of 710,000 men including reserves, of which around 80,000 were professional soldiers ready for war. By the end of the First World War almost 25 percent of the total male population of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland had joined up, over five million men.
29 March – Katherine Routledge and her husband arrive in Easter Island to make the first true study of it (departing August 1915). 9 April – showing of the first colour feature film in Britain: The World, the Flesh and the Devil. [6] 11 April – first British performance of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion at His Majesty's Theatre in ...