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==1916 (Friday)== |
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*Battalion leaves Bouzincourt for the trenches, taking over from the 2nd Manchester Regiment at 12.30am on [[24 June]]. |
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===Events preceding British Declaration of War=== |
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*[[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]]: {{quote-left}}Preparation for the big push. Things out to go 1,000 times better than ever before. |
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*[[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}}. |
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==1917 (Saturday)== |
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*Ooste-Dunkerque: Battalion involved in Battalion training under Company Commanders. Recreation day. |
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*{{WF}} Austro-Germans checked on the Zurawno-Demeszkowiec line (Dniester front). |
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*{{EF}} Munitions Bill introduced by Mr. [[Lloyd George]]. |
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==1916== |
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*{{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. |
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*{{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. |
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*{{AE}} Russians repulse several attacks south of Trebizond. |
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*{{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). |
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==1917== |
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*{{WF}} Further German attacks near Vauxaillon and Filain repulsed. |
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*{{NO}} P&O liner ''Mongolia'' sunk off Bombay by mine. |
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*{{PO}} Return of M. Thomas to paris from [[Russia]]. Resignation of the Greek Premier, M. Zaimis. |
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==1918== |
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*{{WF}} British line of Lys front advance south west of Metered. |
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*{{SF}} Austrians in disordered retreat from Montello to the sea; heavy losses. End of Second Battle of Piave. |
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*{{PO}} Resignation of Austrian Premier, von Seidler; Anglo-American Union proposed by Lord Reading. |
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==1919== |
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*Post Armistice: Germany announces readiness to sign the Peace Treaty. Allied advance on Northern Dvina River (Archangel front). |
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Latest revision as of 16:20, 21 May 2024
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 23 June.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 23 June on The Great War wiki.
1916 (Friday)
- Battalion leaves Bouzincourt for the trenches, taking over from the 2nd Manchester Regiment at 12.30am on 24 June.
- Lt-Col. Machell: “Preparation for the big push. Things out to go 1,000 times better than ever before.
1917 (Saturday)
- Ooste-Dunkerque: Battalion involved in Battalion training under Company Commanders. Recreation day.
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Sources: Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile the
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 (23 June), 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.