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On July 28, 1914, one month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War.
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Russia accepts the challenge, and considers himself at war with Germany. The Schlieffen Plan concentrated German forces in the west for an attack on Russia’s ally France. This allotted precisely six weeks to defeat the French before shifting east to face the Russians, on the assumption the Russians would take around that long to collect their troops across their empire’s vast distances.
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On the afternoon of this day in 1914, two days after declaring war on Russia, Germany declares war on France, moving ahead with a long-held strategy, conceived by the former chief of staff of the German army, Alfred von Schlieffen, for a two-front war against France and Russia.
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The German invasion of Belgium was a military campaign which began on 4 August 1914. Earlier, on 24 July, the Belgian government had announced that if war came it would uphold its historic neutrality. The Belgian government mobilised its armed forces on 31 July and a state of heightened alert (Kriegsgefahr) was proclaimed in Germany.
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4-9-1918 Forced to march passing through Bergen
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"Breakfast at 3:30 transported by truck to boat , our group placed on deck D-12 leaving port at eleven o'clock p.m. While riding the truck I was placing on an injured man's hand sitting across from me while the fellow next to him was holding a match for our light, and much to my surprise I noticed It was Stonk, my radio operator from my old company" works cited- http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natlib.afc2001001.74621/pageturner?ID=pm0035001&page=2
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