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Austro Hungary declared the war to Serbia on 28. July 1914. and attacked the same evening.

Serbian troops destroyed the railway bridge over river Sava and the Austrian ship "Altkomany" ("Altkomanj") was under the bridge at that moment. First casualties were Ištvan Balohi (Austro Hungary) and Dušan Đonović (Serbia). The ship sunk together with it's captain Karlo Eberling.

Leutnant Albert Otto Walter Mayer of the Jäger Regt-zu-Pferd Nr.5. - killed in action on the morning of 2nd August 1914 at Joncherey, Alsace. A short while later, Cpl.Jules Andre Peugeot of the French 44e Régiment d'Infanterie died of his injuries (recieved at the hands of Mayer).

Several Russian soldiers were to die in a small engagement in East Prussia later that afternoon.

The first British servicemen to die in action lost their lives on 6th August 1914 with the sinking of HMS Amphion.

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