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==1916 (Wednesday)==
[[File:Sketch of attack on 1st July 1916.jpg|thumb|right|300px|sketch map showing route of attack for [[1 July]]]]
*Battalion situated at Contay involved in Divisional exercise.
*One [[other ranks|other rank]] is wounded (self inflicted).
*[[Brigade]] Orders (some extracts given in [[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - Appendix C|Appendix C]]) for the attack are issued. Four days are to be devoted to a [[barrage|heavy bombardment]].
*The part of the enemy's line which the [[32nd Division]] is to attack (with the [[Lonsdales]] in the [[97th Brigade]] on the right) is the large salient, reaching from the north of [[Thiepval]] village to a point 1,800 yards due east of [[Authuille]] (see sketch map). The chord of this salient is about 1,900 yards long, and the portion of the front German trenches, allotted as the first objective of the 97th Brigade, is about 850 yards long from north to south, including the formidable [[Leipzig Redoubt]] (K on sketch map), near the southern point of the Salient; besides this, the [[trench]]es leading thence due east are to be captured by a company of the leading right battalion of the Highland Light Infantry.
*The attack of the 97th Brigade is to be carried out by the two H.L.I. Battalions in the front line, each on a front of two [[platoon]]s (''i.e.'', about 300 yards per battalion). The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry is to be in support, and the Londales in reserve, echeloned to the right rear of the right H.L.I. Battalion.
*When the third first line of enemy’s trenches is captured, the K.O.Y.L.I. and the Lonsdales are to pass through the H.L.I. and capture the 4th line, including [[Mouquet Farm]]. Z day, ''i.e.'', the day of the attack, is subsequently fixed for the [[29 June]]; but owing to various causes it is deferred to the [[1 July]].
==1917 (Thursday)==
*Ooste-Dunkerque: Battalion training under the Company Commanders followed by recreation.
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[[Category:June events|21]]
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