14 July: Difference between revisions

↑ Private Robert McKegg was actually killed in action on 1 July 1916. The newspaper article stated that "the wound was not serious," that he received "a nice blighty one" and, what all parents wanted to hear of their sons fighting abroad, that "he would soon be home." The article then mentioned that a further letter was written by the Chaplain of the Regiment to Robert McKegg's parents stating he had in fact been killed in action.
↑ 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.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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

[1] Private Robert McKegg was actually killed in action on 1 July 1916. The newspaper article stated that "the wound was not serious," that he received "a nice blighty one" and, what all parents wanted to hear of their sons fighting abroad, that "he would soon be home." The article then mentioned that a further letter was written by the Chaplain of the Regiment to Robert McKegg's parents stating he had in fact been killed in action.

[2] 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.

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-==1914==
+==1916 (Friday)==
+*Battalion situated at [[Crucifix Corner]] involved in {{gw|fatigue duty}}.
-*Government of Ireland Amending Bill passed by House of Lords.
+*Major Girdwood, <small>[[DSO]]</small>, Northumberland Fusiliers takes over command from Major Chamberlayne who is appointed 2nd in Command of the Battalion.
+*The following newspaper articles are published in the [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]:
+**''[[An Appreciation of Lt-Col. Colonel Machell]]''
+**''[[Casualties - Lewis and Ashton]]''
+**''[[Killed - Pte. Osbourne Morgan Lewis]]''
+**''[[Wounded - Pte. Robert McKegg]]''<ref group="lower-alpha">[[Private]] [[Robert John Reed McKegg (16298)|Robert McKegg]] was actually [[killed in action]] on [[1 July]] 1916. The newspaper article stated that "the wound was not serious," that he received "a nice {{gw|blighty}} one" and, what all parents wanted to hear of their sons fighting abroad, that "he would soon be home." The article then mentioned that a further letter was written by the Chaplain of the Regiment to Robert McKegg's parents stating he had in fact been killed in action.</ref>
+*Deaths:
+**[[Reuben Hetherington (16301 L/Cpl.)]]
+**[[Joseph William Leck (15354 Pte.)]]
+**[[John Alexander Little (19708 Pte.)]]
+**[[Benjamin Martin (15485)]]
-==1915==
+==1917 (Saturday)==
+*Battalion remains in rest at Coxyde.
-*{{WF}} Germans attack Belgians on Yser canal and are repulsed.
+*[[Arthur Shinn (28632)]] [[dies of wounds]].
-*{{EF}} '''Russians fall back towards Narev. Great Austro-German offensive from Baltic to Bukovina begins'''. Enemy capture Przasnysz (Narev).
-*{{SF}} Montenegrins repulse Austrian attack at Grahovo (Montenegro).
-*{{AE}} Turks driven from Nasriya (Euphrates) by British force from Kurna.
-*{{PO}} '''National Registration Bill passes''' House of Lords.
-==1916==
+==1918 (Sunday)==
+*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]]: "orders received for WO's, {{gw|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]].</ref>
-*{{WF}} British attack German second line; capture Longueval and Bazentin-le-Petit, and the whole of Trones Wood. '''End of first phase of Battle of the Somme'''.
-*{{EF}} End of Battle of Baranovichi.
-*{{NO}} British force under General Sir C. Crewe captures Mwanza, on Lake Victoria Nyanza. General van Deventer takes Mpondi (on Central Railway).
+{{notes}}<!--{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
-==1917==
-*{{WF}} German attacks repulsed in region of Lombartzyde (Nieuport).
-**French gain and hold against counter-attacks German trench system on Moronvillers, east of Reims.
-**German thrust on Chemin des Dames and Cerny partially resisted north of the Aisne.
-*{{AE}} Successful British raid on Turks near Gaza.
-*{{PO}} '''Herr von Bethmann Hollweg resigns'''; succeeded as German Imperial Chancellor by Dr. Michaelis.
-**U.S. House of Representatives votes ''nem. con.'' £128,000,000 to send 22,000 aeroplanes and 100,000 airmen to [[Western Front]].
-**The King and Queen return from visit to Western Front.
-**Sir Douglas Haig made K.T.
-==1918==
-*{{SF}} French capture Austrian positions on River Devoli (Albania).
-*{{AE}} Defeat of Turks at passages of Jordan and on Abu Tellul ridges, 510 prisoners.
-*{{PO}} Provisional agreement between British and German delegates to Hague ''re'' Prisoners of War.<ref>Hague Conference ''re'' Prisoners of War: Combatants to be exchanged man for man, rank for rank. Better treatment of prisoners on line of Franco-German agreement of April, 1918.</ref>
-==References/notes==
-{{Gleichen-123}}
-{{reflist}}
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