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==1915== |
==1915 (Thursday)== |
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*British make progress near [[Neuve Chapelle]], occupying village of l'Epinette. |
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*Revised programme of work: daily: 7:45-9:45am physical drill, 10:00am-12:15pm and 14:00-17:00 training including entrenchments, [[musket]]ry, [[rifle]] exercises, [[bayonet]] fighting, [[company]], [[platoon]] and section drills, outposts, map reading, scouting, night operations.<ref>{{lowther|recno=185}}</ref> |
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*New German offensive near [[Przasnysz]] develops. |
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*[[Battalion]] Orders: {{quote-left}}... a scheme of distribution of the Field Glasses presented or lent for the use of [[NCO]]’s. In addition to the 13 pairs of Glasses originally provided by the National Service League, 50 pairs have now been received, besides £26 6s in cash, with which it is hoped to purchase glasses if any can be procured.{{quote-right}} <ref>{{lowther|recno=136}}</ref> Captain Rivington assumes responsibility for providing field glasses for the NCO’s of his own Company.<ref>{{lowther|recno=135}}</ref> |
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*[[Cavalry]] reconnaissance to [[Nakhaila]] (west of Basra). |
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*British auxiliary cruiser {{HMS|Bayano}} torpedoed by {{SMU|U-27}} and sunk close to the coast of [[Scotland]]. |
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*British "Retaliatory Order in Council" relating to detention of enemy goods and Proclamation extending list of "absolute" contraband issued (see [[23 December]], 1914). |
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*Battalion situated in [[billet|billets]] in [[Albert (place)|Albert]] providing working parties<ref>A group of soldiers (or prisoners) that are assigned to perform manual tasks or duties, for their own or other units.</ref> for the Royal Engineers.<ref name="wdmarch16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, March 1916]]</ref> |
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*One [[other ranks|other rank]] is accidentally wounded.<ref name="wdmarch16" /> |
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*Battalion situated in the Support Intermediate Line (Kuropatkin). The Lonsdales and Royal Engineer working parties are in the [[trench|trenches]].<ref name="wdmar17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, March 1917]]</ref> |
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==1918== |
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*Battalion situated in the line. A party of 150 of the enemy armed with revolvers raid No.15 Post. Covered by a [[machine gun]] [[barrage]], they sweep into the post taking 4 prisoners. 1 man escapes with a [[Lewis gun]].<ref name="wdmar18">[[11th Battalion War Diary, March 1918]]</ref> |
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*Enemy quiet by day but active on tracks with machine guns by night. 3 Officer patrols leave Posts 19, 15 and 11, proceeding along the roads and obtained useful information regarding enemy wire and machine guns. Aircraft very active. Wiring by night.<ref name="wdmar18" /> |
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==References / notes== |
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==Acknowledgements== |
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Revision as of 21:24, 24 June 2019
Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 11 March.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 11 March on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Thursday)
- British make progress near Neuve Chapelle, occupying village of l'Epinette.
- New German offensive near Przasnysz develops.
- Cavalry reconnaissance to Nakhaila (west of Basra).
- British auxiliary cruiser HMS Bayano torpedoed by SM U-27 and sunk close to the coast of Scotland.
- British "Retaliatory Order in Council" relating to detention of enemy goods and Proclamation extending list of "absolute" contraband issued (see 23 December, 1914).
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References
Acknowledgements
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 March), 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.