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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 11 August.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 11 August on The Great War wiki.
1914 (Tuesday)
- Newspaper article Notes of the Week (Editorial about the War) is published in the Workington Star and Harrington Guardian.
- Field Marshal Earl Kitchener's 'Your Country Needs You' call to arms recruiting campaign is published, explaining the new terms of service and the call 100,000 men to enlist.[1]
1916 (Friday)
- Battalion remains in trenches in the front line (Cambrin Sector) where the day is comparatively quiet.
- A few hostile trench mortars are sent over during the day doing no material damage; 11th Border's TM's reply with good success.
- The Commanding Officer visits the trenches at 9:00pm and Major Chamberlayne at 1:00am.
1917 (Saturday)
- Battalion carries out training at Ooste Dunkerque under Company arrangements.
1918 (Sunday)
- Deaths: William Denney (13460 L/Cpl.).
References
- ↑ Was my soldier in "Kitchener's Army"? Chris Baker. The Long, Long Trail. Accessed 3 August 2016.
Sources: Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile the Lonsdale Battalion on this day... (hover to read more)
Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile The Lonsdale Battalion On This Day. The majority of the events shown on this day (11 August), including any supplementary notes, enlistments and statistical data etc., have been primarily sourced from the Lonsdale Battalion War Diary (November 1915 to June 1918), Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) and abridged material from Timeline and Chronology of the Lonsdale Battalion (September 1914 - May 1915), which are sourced from the original DLONS/L/13/13 Lowther Estate Archives. Events from that chronology are reproduced here with kind permission of Jim Lowther (2016). They are identified and referenced separately by their unique DLONS numbers. Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate. All casualty names, numbers, ranks, date of deaths and places of burial/commemoration have been sourced from Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19, Volume 39, The Border Regiment and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database respectively.