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==1915== |
==1915 (Tuesday)== |
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*Germans bombard [[Reims]] and [[Soissons]]; French silence the German guns at Soissons. |
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*General Equipment Indent: 2000 dummy cartridges.<ref>{{lowther|recno=66}}</ref> |
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*[[Dardanelles]]: [[Bombardment]] resumed. |
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*Turkish raiding forces routed by British near [[El Kubri]]. |
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*Seizure of {{SS|Dacia}} declared valid by French court. |
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*First kite-balloon ship, {{HMS|Manica}} commissioned. |
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*Chinese and Japanese Governments conclude secret agreement as to future policy in Manchuria. |
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==Notes== |
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*17th Highland Light Infantry relieves the Lonsdales in the E1 sector near Hénencourt.<ref name="wdmarch16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, March 1916]]</ref> |
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*Battalion [[billet|billets]] in Dernancourt leaving one company as garrison at Becourt Wood Defences.<ref name="wdmarch16" /> |
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*{{quote-left}}Last night a beastly [[rifle]] [[grenade]] fell in the middle of a party of our men who were putting out wire. Pitch dark night and a chance shot, as they had no idea anyone was out. It got five. One of my best Sergeants killed dead and another so badly hurt that he died before we could get him back over our parapet. Both personal friends. Harrison, the [[Captain]], is splendid. I was anxious not to have anyone outside, and with another man was laboriously dragging in the [[Sergeant]], when he, Harrison, took him on his back and walked in with him....We have been extremely ‘fortunate’, and I believe we are supposed to have done very well all along....so if anything goes wrong at any time we shall have something to our credit in the past.{{quote-right}} <ref>[[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France]]</ref> – [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. P. W. Machell]] |
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==1917== |
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*[[Battalion]] situated at Nesle parades and marches to points west of Rouy, digging strong points there.<ref name="wdmar17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, March 1917]]</ref> |
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*Battalion situated in Divisional Reserve along Canal Bank. Two Companies on range, one is bathing and another on working party<ref>A group of soldiers (or prisoners) that are assigned to perform manual tasks or duties, for their own or other units.</ref> duty.<ref name="wdmar18">[[11th Battalion War Diary, March 1918]]</ref> |
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Revision as of 21:44, 25 June 2019
Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 23 March.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 23 March on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Tuesday)
- Germans bombard Reims and Soissons; French silence the German guns at Soissons.
- Dardanelles: Bombardment resumed.
- Turkish raiding forces routed by British near El Kubri.
- Seizure of SS Dacia declared valid by French court.
- First kite-balloon ship, HMS Manica commissioned.
- Chinese and Japanese Governments conclude secret agreement as to future policy in Manchuria.
Notes
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 (23 March), 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.