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==1915 (Wednesday)== |
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==1914== |
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*Deaths: [[Ralph Archibald Buck (7045 Pte.)]]. |
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===Western Front=== |
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*Retreat from [[Mons]]; rearguard action at [[Landrecies]]; Line of [[Le Cateau]]-Esnes occupied. |
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*Germans take [[Sedan]]; [[Maubeuge]] invested; [[Mülhausen]] again evacuated by the French. |
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*Last [[Namur]] fort silenced. |
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===Eastern Front=== |
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*[[Poland]]: Austrian First Army defeats Russians at [[Krasnik]] and advances towards [[Lyublin]]. |
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===Southern Front=== |
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*[[Serbia]]: End of First Austrian invasion; complete defeat of the Austrians with heavy losses. |
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===Naval and Overseas Operations=== |
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*[[Cameroons]]: Tepe occupied by the [[Allies]]. |
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===Political=== |
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*[[Austria-Hungary]] declares war on [[Japan]]. |
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*[[Lord Kitchener]]'s first speech as Secretary of State for War.<ref>[[Lord Kitchener]]: First Speech as War Minister - [[Troops]] for past 36 hours in contact with superior German forces, maintained all traditions of British soldiery. Estimated casualties so far over 2,000. 69 [[Territorial Force|Territorial]] [[Battalion]]s volunteer for service abroad. 100,000 recruits practically secured. Principle to observe, maximum forces of enemy Empires constantly diminish, our reinforcements steadily increase, army worthy of British Empire results. [[New Army|New Field Army]] in six or seven months may total 30 [[division]]s continually maintained in field. If war prolonged and future adverse, greater sacrifices required from Empire and nation.</ref> |
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==1916 (Friday)== |
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==References/notes== |
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*[[Battalion]] situated in the Hulluch Sector. At 11.40pm a raid is carried out by the 25th Brigade on the left of the sector. |
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*[[Allied]] [[artillery]] [[bombardment|bombards]] for an hour after which the day is comparatively quiet. |
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*[[Brigadier General]] Jadine visits Battalion HQ during the morning. |
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==1917 (Saturday)== |
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*Battalion involved in [[97th Brigade]] sports – no parades. |
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Latest revision as of 09:02, 12 July 2022
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 25 August.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 25 August on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Wednesday)
- Deaths: Ralph Archibald Buck (7045 Pte.).
1916 (Friday)
- Battalion situated in the Hulluch Sector. At 11.40pm a raid is carried out by the 25th Brigade on the left of the sector.
- Allied artillery bombards for an hour after which the day is comparatively quiet.
- Brigadier General Jadine visits Battalion HQ during the morning.
1917 (Saturday)
- Battalion involved in 97th Brigade sports – no parades.
Lonsdale Battalion on this day... (hover to read more)
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 (25 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.