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==1915 (Sunday)== |
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*German [[aeroplane]] drops bombs at [[Colchester]] and other places in Essex; no damage. |
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*Situated in hut [[billet]]s in Hénencourt Wood involved in fatigue duties.<ref>Fatigue duty is the employment of manual labour assigned to military men that does not necessitate the use of weaponry.</ref><ref>[[11th Battalion War Diary, February 1916]]</ref> |
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*French progress north of [[Perthes]]. |
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*[[Private]] M. Timmins<ref>Most likely to be [[Morrison Timmins (19499 Pte.)]]</ref> writes a letter to the [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]: |
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*Germans take [[Hochrod]] and [[Stossweiler]] ([[Alsace]]). |
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:{{quote-left}}Dear Sir, I am writing these few lines thanking you for the parcel I received yesterday, also “Juno” and the customers of the “Black Cock”, Distington. We are now out of the [[trench]]es for a rest a few miles behind the firing line, living in canvas huts in a wood surrounded by nothing else but mud. The Old Toms, pipe and tobacco came in handy, and I divided the cigs between my pals. Again thanking you and wishing your paper every success.{{quote-right}} <ref>''[[In Canvas Huts Surrounded by Mud]]'' – [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]. Published [[10 March]], 1916.</ref> |
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*Successful Russian counter-attacks near Lomja and [[Plotsk]]. |
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*Russians carry heights near [[Lupkow]] and Wyzskow Passes, and make successful attack on Austrians south-east of [[Stanislau]]. |
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*Turks driven across River Ichkalen ([[Armenia]]). |
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==Notes== |
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*[[Battalion]] situated in Mirvaux; parades in full marching order and marches to Camon.<ref name="wdfeb17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, February 1917]]</ref> |
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*Deaths: [[George Irving (13367 Pte.)]]<ref name="cwgc">{{CWGC+SDGW}}</ref> |
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*Battalion situated at Woesten. Companies spend the day working in Battle Zone, leaving by train at 6.45 & 9.15am. They take over 4 anti-aircraft [[Lewis gun]] positions.<ref name="wdfeb18">[[11th Battalion War Diary, February 1918]]</ref> |
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*The [[Lonsdales]] are congratulated on account of recent raid on [[18 February]].<ref name="wdfeb18" /> |
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Revision as of 00:10, 8 June 2019
Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 21 February.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 21 February on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Sunday)
- German aeroplane drops bombs at Colchester and other places in Essex; no damage.
- French progress north of Perthes.
- Germans take Hochrod and Stossweiler (Alsace).
- Successful Russian counter-attacks near Lomja and Plotsk.
- Russians carry heights near Lupkow and Wyzskow Passes, and make successful attack on Austrians south-east of Stanislau.
- Turks driven across River Ichkalen (Armenia).
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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 (21 February), 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.