20 December: Difference between revisions

Puchevillers: Parades for Battalion drill under the Commanding Officer. Afternoon spent in Company training.
Some men on a sniping and Lewis gun course.

1917 (Thursday)

Battalion moves from Wurst Farm into the front line to relieve the 17th Highland Light Infantry; relief is quiet and completes at midnight.
Casualties: Four other ranks.

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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 (20 December), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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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-<noinclude>{{Calendar|December}}{{Date-introtext}}<br>{{year-day|Sunday|Monday|Wednesday|Thursday|Friday}}</noinclude>__NOTOC__
+<noinclude>{{Calendar|December}}{{Date-introtext}}</noinclude>__NOTOC__
+==1916 (Wednesday)==
-==1914==
+*Puchevillers: Parades for Battalion drill under the Commanding Officer. Afternoon spent in [[Company]] training.
-===Western Front===
+*Some men on a [[sniping]] and [[Lewis gun]] course.
-*[[Battle of Givenchy]] continued.
-*Furious German attacks on Indian [[troops]].
-===Eastern Front===
+==1917 (Thursday)==
+*Battalion moves from Wurst Farm into the front line to relieve the 17th Highland Light Infantry; relief is quiet and completes at midnight.
-*[[Poland]]: Russians holding the [[Bzura (river)|Bzura River]] against heavy German assaults.
+*Casualties: Four [[other ranks]].
-*[[Galicia]]: Russians begin to counter-attack and to recover the [[Carpathian Mountains|Carpathian Passes]].
-===Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres===
+<br/>
-*Armenia: Russians defeat the Turks near [[Lake Van]].
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
-===Naval and Overseas Operations===
-*[[South Africa]]: Captain Fourie shot; his brother's sentence commuted.
-==References/notes==
-{{Gleichen-123}}
-{{reflist}}
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