Content added Content deleted
The Great War>Borderman (→Eastern Front: one event and ref) |
(updated refs and notes template and added days of the week) |
||
| (2 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
<noinclude>{{Calendar|August}}{{Date-introtext}}</noinclude>__NOTOC__ |
<noinclude>{{Calendar|August}}{{Date-introtext}}</noinclude>__NOTOC__ |
||
== |
==1916 (Thursday)== |
||
*[[Battalion]] leaves Philosophe at 11:00am for support trenches in Hulluch Sector relieving the Royal Irish Rifles; relief is complete at 1:30pm. |
|||
===Western Front=== |
|||
*[[Allied]] [[aeroplane]]s very active during afternoon and evening over German lines. |
|||
*General Retreat from the Line of the Sambre and the [[Meuse]]. |
|||
*[[Trench]] strength at 15 officers and 305 [[other ranks]]. |
|||
*British fall back from [[Mons]]. |
|||
*Germans massacre civilians at [[Dinant]] and occupy Tournai, but driven from [[Malines]]. |
|||
*French offensive north of [[Nancy]]. |
|||
===Eastern Front=== |
|||
*Russia completes its general mobilization.<ref>{{Popular-history|volume=1|volume-title=The First Phase 1914|pageno=172}}</ref> Russians advancing in [[East Prussia]]. |
|||
*Austrians advance in [[Poland]] beyond [[Kyeltsi]]. |
|||
==1917 (Friday)== |
|||
===Naval and Overseas Operations=== |
|||
*{{B Company}} and {{D Company}} practice 'Rapid Consolidation'; {{A Company}} and {{C Company}} in [[musket]]ry and firing. |
|||
*[[Cattaro]], Austrian [[Adriatic]] port, bombarded by Franco-British fleet. |
|||
*Sports take place in the afternoon. |
|||
==1918 (Saturday)== |
|||
==References/notes== |
|||
*Deaths: [[James Kay (15394 Sgt.)]]. |
|||
{{Gleichen-123}} |
|||
<br/> |
|||
{{reflist}} |
|||
<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}} |
|||
<noinclude> |
<noinclude> |
||
[[Category:Events by day|237]] |
[[Category:Events by day|237]] |
||
Latest revision as of 09:00, 12 July 2022
Jul
August
Sep
Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 24 August.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 24 August on The Great War wiki.
1916 (Thursday)
- Battalion leaves Philosophe at 11:00am for support trenches in Hulluch Sector relieving the Royal Irish Rifles; relief is complete at 1:30pm.
- Allied aeroplanes very active during afternoon and evening over German lines.
- Trench strength at 15 officers and 305 other ranks.
1917 (Friday)
1918 (Saturday)
- Deaths: James Kay (15394 Sgt.).
Sources: Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile the Lonsdale Battalion on this day... (hover to read more)
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 (24 August), 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.