During 1914, Queensferry lost 5 men, Dalmeny lost 3 men and one of those is also on the Queensferry Memorial.
June 28th – Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by Bosnian Serb Gaurilo Princip.
July 28th – Austria- Hungary declares war on Serbia.
August 1st – Germany declares war on Russia.
August 3rd – Germany declares war on France.
August 4th – United Kingdom declare war on Germany.
August 4th – United Stated declares neutrality.
August 6th – Cruiser HMS Amphia sunk by German mines in North Sea with loss of 150 men, first British casualties of the War.
August 7th – British Expeditionary Force arrives in France.
August 11th – "Your Country Needs You" slogan is published calling for 100,000 men to enlist in Kitcheners 'New Army'.
August 13th – The first squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps arrive in France.
August 23rd – British Expeditionary Force starts its retreat from Mons. The Angel of Mons is born.(The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British Army in the Battle of Mons at the outset of World War I.) (Queensferry lost 2 men here, Dalmeny lost 2 men).
August 25th – The Royal Flying Corps claim their first 'kill' as aircraft from 2nd squadron force down a German plane.
August 28th – Royal Navy wins first battle of Helligoland Bight in the North Sea.
September 26th – Battle of the Marne checks German advance with 13,000 British, 250,000 French and 250,000 German casualties.
October 1st - The first battle of Arras, an attempt by the French to stop the Germans reaching the English Channel.
October 16th – The British Indian Expeditionary Force sails from Bombay to the Persian Gulf for the defence of Mesopotamia.
October 18th – First battle of Ypres. (Queensferry lost 3 men here and Dalmeny lost 1 man).
October 29th – Turkey enters the war.
November 2nd – The UK begins naval blockade of Germany.
22nd November – Trenches are established along the entire Western Front.
December 8th – Battle of the Falklands, Royal Navy defeats Von Spere's German Cruiser Squadron.
December 16th – German Fleet shells Scarborough and Hartlepool, killing 137 civilians.
December 24/25th – In parts of the Western Front an unofficial truce is observed between British and German forces.