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The Battle of Liège was the first battle of the war, and could be considered a moral victory for the allies, as the heavily outnumbered Belgians held out against the German Army for 12 days. From 5 to 16 August 1914, the Belgians successfully resisted the numerically superior Germans, and inflicted surprisingly heavy losses on their aggressors.
The first air-sea battle in history also occurred when Imperial Japanese Navy Farman seaplanes unsuccessfully tried to bomb German and Austro-Hungarian ships in Kiaochow Bay. [311] The Royal Naval Air Service's famed Eastchurch Squadron arrived in France for World War I service, commanded by Wing Commander Charles Samson. [312]
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During the Great War details of the 21st Regiment Essex Fusiliers and 24th Kent Regiment, which included hundreds of men, were placed on active service on 6 August 1914 for local protection duties. The 18th Battalion (Western Ontario), CEF was authorized on 7 November 1914 and embarked for Great Britain on 18 April 1915 and arrived in France on ...
The battle was an important moral victory for the British; as their first battle on the continent since the Crimean War, it was a matter of great uncertainty as to how they would perform. In the event, the British soldiers came away from the battle with a clear sense that they had got the upper hand during the fighting at Mons.
Before the publication of the sanitary report, German researchers determined the casualties of the 8th Army in August 1914 as follows: 239 officers and 2902 soldiers were killed, 583 officers and 12,410 soldiers were wounded, 43 officers and 11,488 soldiers were missing, and in the First Battle of the Masurian Lakes was estimated at 9,000 men.
Elkington's father, John Henry Ford Elkington. John Ford Elkington was born on 3 February 1866 in Newcastle, Jamaica, which was then a British Army camp.He was the son of Irish-born British Army officer John Henry Ford Elkington (1830–1889), who rose to the rank of lieutenant-general and was later Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.
Norman Hastings was born in Auckland on 14 July 1879, the son of Frederick and Fanny Hastings. [1] [2] [nb 1] He was raised in Brooklyn, Wellington, and his military service began in the 1890s when he served as a private for two and a half years with the Wellington City Rifles.