1 January: Difference between revisions

Aveluy: In billets involved in fatigue duty for the Royal Engineers. Routine as follows:
- Seven days in trenches, seven in very close billets as support.
- Seven days trenches, and then seven in Brigade Reserve, 2 miles back.

1917 (Monday)

Puchevillers: Involved in carrying out general training and bombing.

1918 (Tuesday)

Battalion situated at Tournehem.
Morning: Half an hour's physical training by each company.
Afternoon: Companies are at the disposal of Company Commanders.

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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 January), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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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-==1915==
+==1916 (Saturday)==
+*Aveluy: In [[billet]]s involved in [[fatigue duty]] for the {{wl|Royal Engineers}}. Routine as follows:
-===Western Front===
+**Seven days in [[trench]]es, seven in very close billets as support.
-*French take a wood near Mesnil-les-Hurlus, [[Champagne]].
+**Seven days trenches, and then seven in Brigade Reserve, 2 miles back.
-===Eastern Front===
+==1917 (Monday)==
+*Puchevillers: Involved in carrying out general training and bombing.
-*Russians advance on the [[Uzsok Pass]] and in the [[Bukovina]].
+==1918 (Tuesday)==
-===Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres===
+*Battalion situated at Tournehem.
-*Heavy fighting at [[Sarikamish]] (Russian [[Armenia]]).
+*Morning: Half an hour's physical training by each [[company]].
+*Afternoon: Companies are at the disposal of Company Commanders.
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->
-===Naval and Overseas Operations===
+<noinclude>{{sources}}
-*{{HMS|Formidable}} torpedoed in the Channel.
-===Political===
-*Institution of the Military Cross announced (Warrant of [[28 December]] 1914).
-*Dr. John Clifford's [[Great Speeches of the War/Clifford|speech at Westbourne Park Chapel]].
-==1916==
-===Eastern Front===
-*Russian Offensive on the [[Strypa (river)|Strypa]] and the [[Styr (river)|Styr]] ([[Galicia]]).<ref>General Ivanov began an offensive at the close of December and the beginning of January on a 250-mile front from the Pripet marshes to the Rumanian frontier. Heavy losses were suffered on both sides and no decisive results were obtained, but the offensive gave the [[Allies]] time to consolidate their position at [[Salonika]].</ref> Indecisive fighting in the north throughout the month.<ref>Russian aim in the northern sector was gradually to push the Germans out of their positions beforeRiga and Drinks: by content local attacks they deprived the Germans of the winter's rest promised to them by [[Paul von Hindenburg|Hindenburg]].</ref>
-===Southern Front===
-*King Peter of [[Serbia]] reaches [[Salonika]].
-===Naval and Overseas Operations===
-*British take [[Yaunde]] ([[Cameroons]]).
-===Political===
-*[[Canada]] increases her overseas force to 500,000.
-*Tsar appointed British [[Field Marshal]].
-==1917==
-===Western Front===
-*Normal activity proceeding. [[Sir Douglas Haig]] promoted to [[Field Marshal]].
-===Eastern Front===
-*Stubborn fighting in [[Carpathians]] on Moldavian frontier; slight enemy progress at various points.  Enemy in touch with Sereth lines at Focsani and Fundeni.
-*Further enemy progress at the Macin bridgehead (Dobruja).
-===Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres===
-*General Sir R. Wingate becomes High Commissioner of [[Egypt]].
-===Naval and Overseas Operations===
-*Transport "Ivernia" sunk by submarine in Mediterranean; 153 missing.
-*British carry German lines near Lissaki in the Mgeta valley ([[German East Africa]]), and pursue enemy towards the Rufiji valley at Kibambawe.
-===Political===
-*Publication of denunciation by [[Turkey]] of Treaty of Paris (1856) and Treaty of Berlin (1878).
-==1918==
-===Western Front===
-*German raids near Loos, Mericourt, and on other portions of front fail.
-*French repulse raid at Beaumont ([[Verdun]]).
-===Eastern Front===
-*Reported German peace term cause consternation in [[Russia]] and denounced as annexationist.
-*M. Litvinov appointed Bolshevik Plenipotentiary in [[London]].
-===Southern Front===
-*Austrians bomb Bassano, Treviso and Mestre (Venice).
-*Successful British raid across Piave river.
-*Austrians driven from Zenson.
-===Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres===
-*British advance continues north of Jerusalem.
-===Naval and Overseas Operations===
-*{{HMS|Arbutus}} and {{HMS|Grive}} (small vessels) reported torpedoed.
-===Political===
-*Inter-allied War Purchases Committee meets in Paris.
-*Calcutta: All-India Moslem Association formed.
-==References/notes==
-{{Gleichen-123}}
-{{reflist}}
-<noinclude>
 [[Category:Events by day|001]]
-[[Category:January events|01]]
+[[Category:January events|001]]
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