17 August: Difference between revisions

Battalion leaves Annequin for front line trenches in the 'Cambrin Sector'.^[1]
At 2:00pm the Battalion relieves the 17th Highland Light Infantry in the right of the sub-sector.^[1]
At 4:15pm the relief is complete; enemy comparatively quiet.^[1]

1917

Battalion situated at Bray Dunes involved in training under Company Arrangements.^[2]

References / notes

[wdaug16-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 11th Battalion War Diary, August 1916

[wdaug17-2] 11th Battalion War Diary, August 1917

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-==1914==
+==1916==
+*[[Battalion]] leaves Annequin for front line [[trench]]es in the 'Cambrin Sector'.<ref name="wdaug16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, August 1916]]</ref>
-*{{WF}} [[Alsace]]: Renewed French advance, take Marsal and Chateau-Salins. [[Sir John French]] takes up his headquarters at [[Le Cateau]].
+*At 2:00pm the Battalion relieves the 17th Highland Light Infantry in the right of the sub-sector.<ref name="wdaug16" />
-*{{EF}} [[East Prussia]]: Russians defeat Germans at [[Stallupönen]]: Germans fall back on [[Gumbinnen]].
+*At 4:15pm the relief is complete; enemy comparatively quiet.<ref name="wdaug16" />
-*{{SF}} Battle of the [[Jadar]] (between [[Shabats]] and [[Loznitsa]]) continued.
-*{{NO}} [[Adriatic]]: Austrian cruiser sunk near [[Antivari]].
-*{{PO}} [[Belgium]]: Government transferred from [[Brussels]] to [[Antwerp]]. [[Great Britain]]: Enrolment of Special Constables begins.
-==1915==
+==1917==
+*Battalion situated at Bray Dunes involved in training under [[Company]] Arrangements.<ref name="wdaug17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, August 1917]]</ref>
-*{{HF}} [[Zeppelin]] [[air raid]] on Kent, Essex and London begins.
-*{{WF}} French gain footing on ridge in [[Vosges]] (Sondernach crest). Night attack on Sondernach by Germans.
-*{{EF}} [[Novo-Georgievsk]] furiously attacked and outlying forts captured. Austrians approach Brest-Litovsk.
-**&nbsp;Russians driven across the [[Bug (river)|Bug]] at Konstantinov.
-**&nbsp;Enemy approaches Byelostok-Byelsk railway and cuts [[Kholm]]-Brest-Litovsk railway.
-**&nbsp;Fall of [[Kovna]].
-*{{SF}} Italian advance on Bacher valley ([[Dolomites]]), Vrsik crest, Sta Maria and Sta Lucia hills (Julian).
-*{{AE}} 1,200 Bunerwal rebels attack camp at Rustam ([[Peshawar]]); one officer killed.
-*{{NO}} Austrians attack [[Pelagosa Island]] (Centre Adriatic).
-*{{PO}} Germans claim two million prisoners to date: 330,000 British, French and Belgian; rest Russian.
-**&nbsp;Proposals of Entente examined by Serbian cabinet.
-**&nbsp;Italian war loan totals 4 million.
-==References/notes==
+==References / notes==
-{{Gleichen-123}}
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