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==19141916 (Friday)==
*Battalion leaves Bouzincourt for the trenches, taking over from the 2nd Manchester Regiment at 12.30am on [[24 June]].
===Events preceding British Declaration of War===
*"Preparation for the big push. Things out to go 1,000 times better than ever before." – [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]]
*[[Kiel Canal]] reopened (owing to its having been deepened) by the [[Kaiser]]. Visit of the British Fleet under Sir G. Warrender. Kaiser inspects the Dreadnought {{HMS|King George V}}.
==19151917 (Saturday)==
*Ooste-Dunkerque: Battalion involved in Battalion training under Company Commanders. Recreation day.
*{{WF}} Austro-Germans checked on the Zurawno-Demeszkowiec line (Dniester front).
*{{EF}} Munitions Bill introduced by Mr. [[Lloyd George]].
<noinclude> {{refs-notes}}▼==1916==
*{{WF}} Battle of Verdun; Germans take [[Hill 321]] and [[Hill 320]] and Thiaumont Fort; take (but lose) Fleury; are repulsed at Les Eparges and on the left bank of Meuse.
*{{EF}} Russians take Kimpolung (Bukovina); heavy fighting near Pinsk (Pripet); total prisoners reported since [[4 June]] 144,000, with 4,031 officers and 219 guns.
*{{AE}} Russians repulse several attacks south of Trebizond.
*{{NO}} ''Citta di Messina'', Italian auxiliary cruiser, and French torpedo boat, ''Fourcher'', sunk by mines in Strait of Otranto. GER steamer ''Brussels'' captured by German torpedo boat destroyer (TBD).
==1917==
*{{WF}} Further German attacks near Vauxaillon and Filain repulsed.
*{{NO}} P&O liner ''Mongolia'' sunk off Bombay by mine.
*{{PO}} Return of M. Thomas to paris from [[Russia]]. Resignation of the Greek Premier, M. Zaimis.
==1918==
*{{WF}} British line of Lys front advance south west of Metered.
*{{SF}} Austrians in disordered retreat from Montello to the sea; heavy losses. End of Second Battle of Piave.
*{{PO}} Resignation of Austrian Premier, von Seidler; Anglo-American Union proposed by Lord Reading.
==1919==
*Post Armistice: Germany announces readiness to sign the Peace Treaty. Allied advance on Northern Dvina River (Archangel front).
==References/notes==
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