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==1916 (Saturday)== |
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*Battalion situated in the Cambrin Sector, front line [[trench]]es. |
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*{{WF}} - [[Belgium]]: Germans reach [[Dinant]]-Neufchateau line and occupy [[Louvain]]; Belgians, defeated at [[Aerschot]], fall back towards [[Antwerp]]. |
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*The Lonsdale have a comparatively quiet day; {{wl|Royal Engineers}} and Artillery Officers visit Battalion HQ during morning. |
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** [[Alsace]]: French re-enter [[Mülhausen]] and push on in [[Lorraine]]. |
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*The Commanding Officer visits the right sub-sector (trenches) at 9:15pm and returns 10:15pm. |
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*{{EF}} - [[Poland]]: Austrians' advance checked near [[Kyeltsi]]. |
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*Weather is wet and the trenches are in bad condition. |
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*{{SF}} - End of Battle of the Jadar; defeat of Austrians. |
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*Deaths: [[John William Glendinning (17538 Pte.)]]. |
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*{{PO}} - [[Kaiser]]'s alleged order for the destruction of "General French's contemptible little army".<ref>Extract from Order reported issued by the Emperor, 19 August, 1914, H.Q., Aix-la-Chapelle:- "It is my Royal and Imperial Command that you concentrate your energies....to exterminate first the treacherous English, and to walk over General French's contemptible little army."</ref> |
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==1917 (Sunday)== |
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*Battalion situated at Ghyvelde has church parade at 10:00am and later, recreations etc. |
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*{{WF}} - Germans retake [[trench]]es on [[Ablain]]-Angres road. |
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*Deaths: [[Hamilton V. Harding (17465 CSM)]]. |
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*{{EF}} - Fall of [[Novo Georgievsk]]. Russians driven back between [[Augustovo]] and [[Osovyets]] (Northern Centre). |
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** Germans progress beyond the [[Niemen (river)|Niemen]] east of Tykocin. |
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** Mackensen reaches Piszcza and gains ground towards Brest-Litovsk. |
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*{{AE}} - Turks prevent Italians leaving [[Smyrna]]. |
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*{{NO}} - [[USA]] liner ''Arabic'' (White Star) torpedoed and sunk. Americans on board. |
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** German force landing at [[Pernau]] ([[Riga]]) destroyed by Russians. |
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** Norwegian mail steamer ''Haakon VII'' stopped by Germans and mails seized. Norwegian Government protests. |
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** British submarine {{HMS|E13}} [[shell]]ed when aground at Saltholm in neutral Danish waters. |
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*{{PO}} - Reichstag opened; speech by Chancellor. Bulgarian Foreign Minister resigns. |
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** British forces total 3,825,000, including Colonial [[troops]]. |
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 19 August.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 19 August on The Great War wiki.
1916 (Saturday)
- Battalion situated in the Cambrin Sector, front line trenches.
- The Lonsdale have a comparatively quiet day; Royal Engineers and Artillery Officers visit Battalion HQ during morning.
- The Commanding Officer visits the right sub-sector (trenches) at 9:15pm and returns 10:15pm.
- Weather is wet and the trenches are in bad condition.
- Deaths: John William Glendinning (17538 Pte.).
1917 (Sunday)
- Battalion situated at Ghyvelde has church parade at 10:00am and later, recreations etc.
- Deaths: Hamilton V. Harding (17465 CSM).
Sources: Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile the Lonsdale Battalion on this day... (hover to read more)
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 (19 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.