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==1915 (Sunday)==
*Germans repulsed at [[Les Éparges]].
*Letter to [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]] from B.L. Montgomery: {{quote-left}}As the move is put off for at least two weeks I hardly think it necessary to send a section from each company to Grantham. Your advance party will have plenty of time to get things straight, while we go on with the training. You can if you like bring back one of the two officers you sent down there. One officer at Grantham would be quite enough; however that is as you like.{{quote-right}} <ref>{{lowther|recno=116}}</ref>
*Severe fighting near [[Albert]].
*Private F.G. Atkinson is 25 minutes late at tattoo and is confined to barracks for three days.<ref>{{lowther|recno=108}}</ref>
*Germans [[bombard]] [[Osovyets]].
*Russians capture Wysocko Nizhne, near the [[Uzsok Pass]].
*Turks attack British at [[Kurna]] ([[Mesopotamia]]) and [[Ahwaz]] (Persian Gulf).
*Harrison liner ''Wayfarer'' torpedoed.
*{{SS|Kronprinz Wilhelm}} arrives at Newport News.
*Count Bernstorff publishes the German Note to [[USA]].
*German reprisals announced ''re'' British treatment of captured submarine crews: 39 British officer prisoners under arrest.
*[[Bulgaria]] agrees to mixed Serbian and Bulgarian commission on frontier incidents in [[Macedonia]].
 
==1916Notes==
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*[[Battalion]] situated in [[billet|billets]] in Senlis involved in training.<ref>[[11th Battalion War Diary, April 1916]]</ref>
==References / notes==
*[[Lance Corporal]] W.H. Postlethwaite writes a letter to the [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]] from a home hospital:
:{{quote-left}}Dear Sir, I have received with much pleasure your postcard informing me that my Uncle, Mr. W.T. Pursglove, of Philadelphia, U.S.A, has sent to you money and instructions for you to forward to me a parcel of your cigarettes to the value of £1. It is evident that my uncle at time of writing was unaware that I had been wounded, and naturally expected you carrying out his wishes by sending them out to me in France. Therefore, it is my wish that you would kindly send out the parcel of cigarettes and twist tobacco, to the value of £1, to my Platoon in France, with the exception of a small amount of cigarettes, which I should be obliged if you would send on to me in this hospital. I know only too well the value of a cigarette in the [[trench]]es, and I am sure the men of my [[Platoon]] will appreciate the parcel so much. In concluding, I am pleased to say that I am well on the road to recovery, and trust soon to be up North to see the old home town once again. Wishing yourself, your staff and readers the very best of health and luck.{{quote-right}} <ref>''[[Well on the Road to Recovery]]'' &ndash; [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]. Published [[21 April]], 1916.</ref>
 
==1917==
*Deaths: [[John Reuben Hampson (24382 Pte.)]]<ref name="cwgc">{{CWGC+SDGW}}</ref>
 
==References / notes==
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