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==1916 (Thursday)== |
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*Battalion in Divisional Reserve at Bouzincourt providing [[working parties]] for the Royal Engineers. |
*Battalion in Divisional Reserve at Bouzincourt providing [[working parties]] for the Royal Engineers. |
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==1917 (Friday)== |
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*Villers Brettoneaux: {{wl|Reveille}} at 3am. The Battalion (less one [[Company]]) to commence entraining at 4.45am. Trains leave at 5.45am, the route taking them to {{wl|Steenbecque}}<ref group="note">In various other areas of the site where the Battalion War Diary has been referenced this [[w:Communes of France|Commune]] in France is spelt the Dutch way: Steenbeke or Steenbeeke. To avoid confusion, this is the same place in the Nord Department of northern France. I have used the French spelling here as this is what's been used in the war diary for this day's entry.</ref> via Abbeville, Etaples, Boulogne, Calais and Hazebrouck. Arrives at Steenbecque at 4pm. |
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*Commences to march to the Neuf Berquin / Doulieu area at 5pm, via Merville. Arrives at 11pm. |
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Revision as of 23:21, 23 July 2021
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 1 June.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 1 June on The Great War wiki.
1916 (Thursday)
- Battalion in Divisional Reserve at Bouzincourt providing working parties for the Royal Engineers.
1917 (Friday)
- Villers Brettoneaux: Reveille at 3am. The Battalion (less one Company) to commence entraining at 4.45am. Trains leave at 5.45am, the route taking them to Steenbecque[note 1] via Abbeville, Etaples, Boulogne, Calais and Hazebrouck. Arrives at Steenbecque at 4pm.
- Commences to march to the Neuf Berquin / Doulieu area at 5pm, via Merville. Arrives at 11pm.
Notes
- ↑ In various other areas of the site where the Battalion War Diary has been referenced this Commune in France is spelt the Dutch way: Steenbeke or Steenbeeke. To avoid confusion, this is the same place in the Nord Department of northern France. I have used the French spelling here as this is what's been used in the war diary for this day's entry.
References
Acknowledgements
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 June), 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.