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==1916 (Wednesday)== |
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==1914== |
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*Battalion is withdrawn to Crucifix [[dug-out]]s. Lieut. Kirkwood RAMC<ref group="lower-alpha">Royal Army Medical Corps.</ref> is relieved by Lieut. Webster RAMC. |
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===Events preceding British Declaration of War=== |
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*Deaths: [[George Henry Douthwaite (13809 L/Cpl.)]] |
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*Demonstrations in Ulster suggesting Civil War. |
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==1917 (Thursday)== |
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*Battalion arrives at Coxyde at 5:30am. Day spent in rest. |
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*{{WF}} - Crown Prince checked in Argonne after vigorous offensive. German advance round Souchez and capture cemetery. German attack in the "Labyrinth" (north of Arras) repulsed. |
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*Deaths: [[Anthony Askew (17557)]], [[Leonard George Guest (26931 Pte.)]] and [[Joseph Kidd (27989 Pte.)]] |
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*{{EF}} - Enemy offensive on the Bobr and Narev fronts (north-east of Warsaw). |
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*{{SF}} - Turkish [[trench]]es before [[Achi Baba]] captured. Italian [[air-raid]] on Pola. |
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*{{NO}} - Engagements reported between British-Belgian force and Germans on north Rhodesian frontier. |
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*{{PO}} - State control of coal industry announced in [[Germany]]. South Wales miners conference rejects Government proposals. |
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==1918 (Friday)== |
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*Battalion training continues with 1st Battalion 130th Infantry Regiment (USA) at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher.<ref group="lower-alpha">The [[Lonsdales]] were in their final month before being disbanded. Where training is concerned, this was done alongside the American infantry. It was during this period that they moved to several different locations in the eventual run up to the disbandment papers being approved. On [[29 July]], 1918, the [[11th Battalion War Diary, July 1918|war diary states]]: {{quote-left}}orders received for WO's, [[NCO]]'s and men of the cadres to proceed to join the [[1/5th Border Regiment]] (A.G. letter C.R. 5/9054/30 G.) and for battalion to be disbanded from date of departure.{{quote-right}} The Lonsdale are disbanded two days later on [[31 July]].</ref> |
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*{{WF}} - British gain Mametz Wood and make progress in Trones Wood. Successful raids in Loos salient. |
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** Germans attack strongly at [[Verdun]]; gain some ground at Chapelle St. Fine, at intersection of Fleury-Vaux roads. |
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*{{EF}} - Furious fighting continues on the Stokhod, with no decisive results. |
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*{{SF}} - An Austrian attack on the Adige driven back. |
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*{{AE}} - Russians under General Yudenich advance west of Erzerum on the Erzingan road and recapture Mamakhatun. |
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==1917== |
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*{{WF}} - British [[air raid]] into [[Belgium]]. |
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*{{EF}} - Russian progress towards Dolina ([[Galicia]]). General Kornilov crosses the Lomnica river. |
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*{{AE}} - Announced that Turks have been routed by King of Hejaz in northern Arabia, 700 killed, 600 prisoners. |
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*{{PO}} - [[Mesopotamia]] Debate: Mr. A. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for India, resigns. Chinese Republicans enter Pekin; Tuan Chi Jui, P.M.; Fen Kwo Chang, President. |
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==1918== |
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*{{EF}} - Announcement of Allied force on Murman coast. Czecho-Slovaks capture Kazan (on River Volga); Czecho-Slovaks control Siberian Railway east of Penza. |
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*{{SF}} - French advance on both sides of River Devoli (southern Albania); Austrians retreat. |
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*{{NO}} - Japanese battleship ''Kawachi'' blown up and sunk in Tokuyama Bay, 500 casualties. |
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*{{PO}} - Count Hertling in Reichstag on [[Belgium]] as a pawn. Prussian Upper House expels Prince Lichnowsky. |
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** Mr. Huges (Australian Premier) ''re'' Pacific islands.<ref>Speech of the Right Honourable W.M. Hughes (Australia Premier) ''re'' Pacific Islands: Australia will not consent to return to [[Germany]] captured Pacific Islands.</ref> |
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** Denaturalisation Bill passes first and second reading in House of Commons. |
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==References/notes== |
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Latest revision as of 22:51, 27 December 2023
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 12 July.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 12 July on The Great War wiki.
1916 (Wednesday)
- Battalion is withdrawn to Crucifix dug-outs. Lieut. Kirkwood RAMC[a] is relieved by Lieut. Webster RAMC.
- Deaths: George Henry Douthwaite (13809 L/Cpl.)
1917 (Thursday)
- Battalion arrives at Coxyde at 5:30am. Day spent in rest.
- Deaths: Anthony Askew (17557), Leonard George Guest (26931 Pte.) and Joseph Kidd (27989 Pte.)
1918 (Friday)
- Battalion training continues with 1st Battalion 130th Infantry Regiment (USA) at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher.[b]
Notes
- ↑ Royal Army Medical Corps.
- ↑ The Lonsdales were in their final month before being disbanded. Where training is concerned, this was done alongside the American infantry. It was during this period that they moved to several different locations in the eventual run up to the disbandment papers being approved. On 29 July, 1918, the war diary states: “orders received for WO's, NCO's and men of the cadres to proceed to join the 1/5th Border Regiment (A.G. letter C.R. 5/9054/30 G.) and for battalion to be disbanded from date of departure.” The Lonsdale are disbanded two days later on 31 July.
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 (12 July), 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.