1 August: Difference between revisions

Noyelle: Eight Officers and 218 other ranks involved in running fatigues at the Hohenzollern Redoubt for the Hairpin Mines.
A draft of 89 other ranks join the Battalion during the morning.

1917 (Wednesday)

Coxyde: Duties impossible due to heavy rain all day.
Regimental Medical Officer Captain Anderson in orders for the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for his work on 9, 10 and 11 July.
Lieut. Cook-Gray for the Military Cross (MC) on the same date.

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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 (1 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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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-==1914==
+==1916 (Tuesday)==
+*Noyelle: Eight Officers and 218 [[other ranks]] involved in running [[fatigues]] at the {{wl|Hohenzollern Redoubt}} for the Hairpin Mines.
-===Precursor to British Declaration of War===
+*A draft of 89 other ranks join the Battalion during the morning.
-*[[George V|King George]] wires the [[Nicholas II of Russia|Tsar]] that [[Germany]] recommended British proposals to [[Austria]] on [[30 July]], but that Russian mobilisation was reported during Austrian Cabinet meeting.
-*[[Russia]] does not reply to German ultimatum expiring at noon.
-*French mobilisation ordered 3.40 p.m.
-*Germany, having ostensibly ordered general mobilisation 5 p.m., declares war on Russia 7.10 p.m.; makes out that Russians had crossed frontier in afternoon and begun war.  (Declaration drafted before noon.)
-*Tsar wires to King George that he had to mobilise on account of [[Serbia]]; but that though he had promised [[Kaiser]] he would not move [[troops]] during negotiations, Germany had suddenly declared war.
-*Austria at last moment appears accommodating to England.
-*[[Italy]] declines to take part in war, as being an aggressive one.
-*[[Sir Edward Grey]] protests against detention of British ships in Hamburg.
-*[[Belgium]] announces her intention of upholding her neutrality.<ref>Note presented to the various European Governments stating that Belgium proposed to carry out strictly her obligations under the Treaty of London, and had mobilised her [[army]] to defend her neutrality and her international obligations.</ref>
+==1917 (Wednesday)==
-==References/notes==
+*Coxyde: Duties impossible due to heavy rain all day.
-{{Gleichen-123}}
+*Regimental Medical Officer Captain Anderson in orders for the [[Distinguished Service Order]] <small>(DSO)</small> for his work on [[9 July|9]], [[10 July|10]] and [[11 July]].
-{{reflist}}
+*Lieut. Cook-Gray for the Military Cross <small>(MC)</small> on the same date.
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+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
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