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==1916== |
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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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*German [[aeroplane]] drops bombs at [[Colchester]] and other places in Essex. There are no recorded civilian casualties and no damage. See [[Air Raids on Great Britain in 1915]]. |
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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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*French progress north of [[Perthes]]. |
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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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*Germans take [[Hochrod]] and [[Stossweiler]] ([[Alsace]]). |
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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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*[[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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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 21 February.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 21 February on The Great War wiki.
1916
- Situated in hut billets in Hénencourt Wood involved in fatigue duties.[1][2]
- Private M. Timmins[3] writes a letter to the Workington Star and Harrington Guardian:
- “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 trenches 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.” [4]
1917
- Battalion situated in Mirvaux; parades in full marching order and marches to Camon.[5]
- Deaths: George Irving (13367 Pte.)[6]
1918
- 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.[7]
- The Lonsdales are congratulated on account of recent raid on 18 February.[7]
References / notes
Material from Timeline/Chronology of the Lonsdale Battalion (September 1914 - May 1915) are sourced from the DLONS/L/13/13 Lowther Estate Archives. Entries from this timeline are reproduced here with kind permission of Jim Lowther and are not available under the license of this site. Please do not publish these extracts on other publicly visible media without prior permission from the copyright holder.
- ↑ Fatigue duty is the employment of manual labour assigned to military men that does not necessitate the use of weaponry.
- ↑ 11th Battalion War Diary, February 1916
- ↑ Most likely to be Morrison Timmins (19499 Pte.)
- ↑ In Canvas Huts Surrounded by Mud – Workington Star and Harrington Guardian. Published 10 March, 1916.
- ↑ 11th Battalion War Diary, February 1917
- ↑
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 11th Battalion War Diary, February 1918