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Line 1: <noinclude>{{Calendar\|April\|hide31=yes}}{{Date-introtext}}__NOTOC__</noinclude>~~__NOTOC__~~ ==1915 (Thursday)== {{preceding}} [[Ostend]] [[bombarded]] by 15 [[Allied]] [[aeroplane]]s. Severe fighting off Ostend. Capt. Diggle’s Order: No breakfasts will under any circumstances be taken to a Barrack-room unless by special order of the Medical Officer.<ref>{{lowther\|recno=278}}</ref> French [[airship]] bombs Freiburg. Battalion Orders: All Officers, [[NCO\|N.C. Officers]] & men who have not yet been inoculated for the first or second time will attend at the Medical Inspection Room.<ref>{{lowther\|recno=135}}</ref> [[Sir John French]]'s despatch on operations from [[2 February]] to [[20 March]] published. Capt. Stanley provides his detailed report on the progress at Belton Park Camp, Grantham.<ref>{{lowther\|recno=116}}</ref> Russian Black Sea fleet bombards [[Eregli]] and other places on the [[Anatolian Coast\|coast of Anatolia]]. Two [[Lance Corporal]]s and 30 [[Private]]s are transferred from E Company to {{B Company}} and {{D Company}}. [137] ==~~Notes~~1916 (Saturday)== Battalion (minus {{A Company}}) in support at Aveluy involved in [[working parties]]. ~~<references group="note"/>~~ 2nd Lieut. Taylor is killed after falling when his horse accidentally slips during the night.<ref group="note">His horse slipped on a dark night and came down with him. He was an Australian, a fine rider, and ''"one of the best officers we had."''</ref><ref>[[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France]]</ref> ~~==References==~~ ~~{{reflist}}~~ ==1917 (Sunday)== ~~==Acknowledgements==~~ North of Fayet: Remain in the line, strengthening defences etc. ~~{{acknowledgements}}~~ Relief by 16th Lancashire Fusiliers and the 16th Northumberland Fusiliers commences at 8.30pm. Relief completes at 11.30pm. <noinclude>▼ ====Deaths==== {{Div col\|rules=no\|gap=2em\|small=no\|colwidth=20em}} [[Thomas Ponfret Bond (26633 Pte.)]] [[Joseph Burton (26322 Pte.)]] [[Eustace Wallace Ryan (28184)]] [[Ellis Smith (28189)]] [[Albert Stockdale (26066)]] [[Percy Vickers (33364)]] {{div col end}} ==1918 (Monday)== In the Line: [[Artillery]] active on both sides. Patrols out and wiring continues at night. Companies continue to bathe. Deaths: [[Percy Bowe (20287 L/Sgt.)]] [[dies of wounds]], aged 23.<ref group="note">Slight discrepancy between sources. ''[[Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19, Volume 39, The Border Regiment]]'' states 15 April and the [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]] states [[16 April]].</ref> ▲<noinclude>{{refs-notes}} [[Category:Events by day\|106]] [[Category:April events\|15]]