13 August: Difference between revisions

Day is generally quiet. At 4:30am a bombing group in no.1 sap hears movement south of the sap when 6 men (Germans) appear.
One of the enemy throws a bomb amongst our men who at once reply driving the enemy away.
At 5:00pm the enemy explodes a mine near the 'Hohenzollern Redoubt'.
At 7:30pm the Officer Commanding the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry visits Battalion HQ.

1917 (Monday)

Battalion spends the day cleaning up billets at Ooste Dunkerque. Inspection by the Deputy Assistant Director Medical Services.

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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 (13 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.

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-==1914==
+==1916 (Sunday)==
+*Day is generally quiet. At 4:30am a bombing group in no.1 [[sap]] hears movement south of the sap when 6 men (Germans) appear.
-*{{WF}} [[Belgium]]: German check at [[Eghezee]]; Neufchateau occupied by Crown Prince.
+*One of the enemy throws a bomb amongst our men who at once reply driving the enemy away.
-**&nbsp;[[France]]: Germans seize [[La Garde]].
+*At 5:00pm the enemy explodes a mine near the 'Hohenzollern Redoubt'.
-*{{SF}} First Austrian invasion of [[Serbia]] begun: Austrians force passage of the [[River Drina]].
+*At 7:30pm the Officer Commanding the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry visits Battalion HQ.
-*{{NO}} [[East Africa]]: British naval forces bombard and raid [[Dar-es-Salaam]].
-==1915==
+==1917 (Monday)==
+*Battalion spends the day cleaning up [[billet]]s at Ooste Dunkerque. Inspection by the Deputy Assistant Director Medical Services.
-*{{HF}} [[Zeppelin]] [[air raid]] on East Suffolk and Essex concludes. Civilian casualties: 6 killed and 24 injured (inc. 9 children).
+<br/>
-*{{WF}} German attacks in [[Argonne]] repulsed. Germans [[bombard]] Raon l'Etape (Argonne).
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
-*{{EF}} Germans thrust back after three days' fighting from Vlodava (on the Upper [[Bug (river)|Bug]]).
-*{{SF}} Italian progress on the [[Carso]] and advance in [[Sexten valley]] (Carn.).
-*{{NO}} French torpedo boat destroyer sinks Austrian submarine in [[Adriatic]].
-*{{PO}} Bulgarian Premier, M. Radoslavov, explains Bulgaria's aims, etc., to American press.<ref>M. Radoslavov stated that [[Bulgaria]] is prepared to enter the war when she receives guarantees that in [[Serbia]] and Greek Macedonia her claims will be satisfied. She is negotiating with both groups of powers.</ref>
-==References/notes==
-{{Gleichen-123}}
-{{reflist}}
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