14 September: Difference between revisions

Battalion Commanding Officer visits the front line trenches and Company HQ in the Cuinchy Sector during morning.
At 7:00pm hostile aerial darts and minenwerfers^[a] are fired in the direction of brickstacks searching for Stokes (trench mortar) gun positions.

1917 (Friday)

↑ A class of German short range mortars developed around 1908-1909, used extensively during the First World War.

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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 September), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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 (Thursday)==
+*Battalion Commanding Officer visits the front line {{gw|trench}}es and Company HQ in the Cuinchy Sector during morning.
-===Western Front===
+*At 7:00pm hostile aerial darts and minenwerfers<ref group="lower-alpha">A class of German short range mortars developed around 1908-1909, used extensively during the First World War.</ref> are fired in the direction of brickstacks searching for Stokes ({{gw|trench mortar}}) gun positions.
-*[[Battle of the Aisne]] begins (continued till [[28 September]]).
-*Germans halt on the [[Aisne]] and north of [[Reims]].
-*Heavy fighting round [[Missy-sur-Aisne|Missy]] and Vailly.
-===Eastern Front===
-*[[Poland]]: Russians force the passage of the [[San]] in pursuit of Dankl's beaten army.
-===Southern Front===
-*[[Bosnia]]: [[Vishegrad]] taken by Serbians and Montenegrins.
-===Naval and Overseas Operations===
-*[[South Africa]]: Union forces surprise and defeat German's at [[Raman's Drift]].
-*''[[SMS Cap Trafalgar|Cap Trafalgar]]'' sunk by RMS ''[[RMS Carmania|Carmania]]'' (east coast of South America).
+==1917 (Friday)==
-==References/notes==
+*Battalion situated in {{gw|billet}}s in Wulpen finding [[gw:working party|working parties]].
-{{Gleichen-123}}
+*Operation Orders are received from {{gw|Brigade}}.
-{{reflist}}
+{{notes}}<!--{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
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