16 August: Difference between revisions

Brigadier General Jardine visited Battalion H.Q. at 12.30PM and selected a place for Advanced Brigade H.Q.
Remaining half of Battalion have baths and clean clothes are issued.

1917 (Thursday)

Battalion situated at Bray Dunes involved in training under Company Arrangements.
Sea bathing in the afternoon.

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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 (16 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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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+==1916 (Wednesday)==
-==1914==
+*[[Brigadier General]] Jardine visited Battalion H.Q. at 12.30PM and selected a place for Advanced [[Brigade]] H.Q.
-*{{WF}} - [[Belgium]]: Indecisive action at [[Wavre]]. [[British Expeditionary Force]] first contingent completes its landing. French successful in northern [[Alsace]] (Schirmeck, etc.).
+*Remaining half of Battalion have baths and clean clothes are issued.
-*{{EF}} - [[East Prussia]]: General advance of Russian armies.
-*{{SF}} - Austrians capture [[Shabatz]] (north-west [[Serbia]]), but Serbians check Austrian advance between [[Loznitsa]] and Shabats.
-*{{NO}} - Franco-British squadron enters the [[Adriatic]].
-==1915==
+==1917 (Thursday)==
+*[[Battalion]] situated at Bray Dunes involved in training under [[Company]] Arrangements.
-*{{EF}} - Russian army withdrawn to Brest-[[Osovyets]]-[[Kovna]] line. Byelostok ([[Grodno]]) partially evacuated. Kovna [[bombarded]]; breach made in defences. Austrians cross Krzna (Brest). Germans repulsed from [[Mitau]] ([[Riga]]).
+*Sea bathing in the afternoon.
-*{{SF}} - Montenegrin success on border against Austrians. Admiral de Robeck's despatch of [[1 July]] 1915 on [[Dardanelles]] landing [[25 April|25]]-[[26 April]] 1915 received.
+<br/>
-*{{AE}} - Russians enter [[Van]] ([[Armenia]]). Russian communiqué announces defeat of Turks and occupation of [[Kep]] ([[Euphrates]]); Turks driven back near [[Olti]] ([[Transcaucasia]]).
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
-*{{NO}} - Cumberland coast towns [[shell]]ed by German submarine. German fleet attacks at entrance of Gulf of Riga.
-*{{PO}} - Manifesto on National Service signed by notable men of all parties in England. Venizelist candidate elected President of Chamber; Greek Government resigns.
-==References/notes==
-{{Gleichen-123}}
-{{reflist}}
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