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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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 (Friday)==
-*{{WF}} French take a wood near Mesnil-les-Hurlus, [[Champagne]].
-*{{EF}} Russians advance on the [[Uzsok Pass]] and in the [[Bukovina]].
-*{{AE}} Heavy fighting at [[Sarikamish]] (Russian [[Armenia]]).
-*{{NO}} {{HMS|Formidable}} torpedoed in the Channel.
-*{{PO}} 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 (Saturday)==
+*Aveluy: In [[billet]]s involved in [[fatigue duty]] for the {{wl|Royal Engineers}}. Routine as follows:
-*{{EF}} 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>
+**Seven days in [[trench]]es, seven in very close billets as support.
-*{{SF}} King Peter of [[Serbia]] reaches [[Salonika]].
+**Seven days trenches, and then seven in Brigade Reserve, 2 miles back.
-*{{NO}} British take [[Yaunde]] ([[Cameroons]]).
-*{{PO}} [[Canada]] increases her overseas force to 500,000.
-**Tsar appointed British [[Field Marshal]].
 ==1917 (Monday)==
+*Puchevillers: Involved in carrying out general training and bombing.
-*{{WF}} Normal activity proceeding. [[Sir Douglas Haig]] promoted to [[Field Marshal]].
-*{{EF}} 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]]).
-*{{AE}} General Sir R. Wingate becomes High Commissioner of [[Egypt]].
-*{{NO}} 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.
-*{{PO}} Publication of denunciation by [[Turkey]] of Treaty of Paris (1856) and Treaty of Berlin (1878).
 ==1918 (Tuesday)==
+*Battalion situated at Tournehem.
-*{{WF}} German raids near [[Loos]], Mericourt, and on other portions of front fail.
+*Morning: Half an hour's physical training by each [[company]].
-**French repulse raid at Beaumont ([[Verdun]]).
+*Afternoon: Companies are at the disposal of Company Commanders.
-*{{EF}} Reported German peace term cause consternation in [[Russia]] and denounced as annexationist.
-**M. Litvinov appointed Bolshevik Plenipotentiary in [[London]].
-*{{SF}} Austrians bomb [[Bassano]], Treviso and Mestre (Venice).
-**Successful British raid across [[Piave (river)|Piave river]].
-**Austrians driven from [[Zenson]].
-*{{AE}} British advance continues north of [[Jerusalem]].
-*{{NO}} {{HMS|Arbutus}} and {{HMS|Grive}} (small vessels) reported torpedoed.
-*{{PO}} Inter-allied War Purchases Committee meets in [[Paris]].
-** Calcutta: All-India Moslem Association formed.
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