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21 June 1916

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  • Sir John Maxwell’s despatches on operations in Egypt are published. The London Gazette
  • German forces are repulsed at Mort Homme and west and south of Vaux Fort; German troops gain ground  in Firmin Wood and Chenois Wood in the Battle of Verdun
  • Russians occupy Radautz, south of Czernowitz; Germans repulsed in areas of Dvinsk, Vilna and Lutsk; Russians take trenches on Strypa on the Eastern Front
  • Italian forces make advances on the Asiago plateau on Southern Front
  • Russian forces capture Radautz in Bukovina