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==1916 (Sunday)== |
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*Battalion situated at [[Authuille]] Sector. 18 Pounder guns bombards German lines continuously. |
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===Events preceding British Declaration of War=== |
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*German retaliation is very heavy during the afternoon. Casualties: 1 [[other ranks|other rank]] is wounded, 2 other ranks suffer from [[Shell Shock|shell shock]]. |
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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 ''[[HMS King George V|King George V]]''. |
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==1917 (Monday)== |
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*Ooste-Dunkerque: Battalion engaged in [[working parties]] totalling 107 men found for various works. |
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*{{WF}} Continued fighting north of Arrras and on the heights of the Meuse. French airmen bomb railway station at Douai. |
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*Remainder of day spent in training. |
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*{{EF}} Russians fight a rearguard action at Bobrka. |
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*Battalion moves from Camp Gallimard to Camp Ribiallet at 9.30pm. |
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*{{SF}} Austrians repulsed in the Carnic Alps. |
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*{{NO}} Bukoba (German port on Lake Victoria Nyanza), destroyed by British column. |
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==1918 (Tuesday)== |
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*Battalion training continues; weather good. |
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*{{WF}} Battle of Verdun: Heavy fighting at Fleury and west of Thiaumont. Preliminary British bombardment along Somme front and northwards. |
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*{{EF}} Russian advance from Bukovina; fighting on Dniester. |
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*{{SF}} Great Italian advance from Brenta to the Adige. Asiago retaken. |
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*{{PO}} Roger Casement trial begins. |
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*{{WF}} British advance on Souchez river continues. French carry crest near Hurtebise ("Drangon's Cave"). '''First fighting contingent of American [[troops]] lands in France'''. |
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*{{SF}} Austrian counter-attackson Mt. Ortigara. |
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*{{NO}} Raid in Black Sea by the ''Breslau''; Russian wireless station and lighthouse on island of Fidonisi destroyed. |
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*{{PO}} M. Venizelos returns to Athens and succeeds M. Zaimis as Premier. Recall of German Minister to Norway, consequent or bomb-plot. |
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==1918== |
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*{{WF}} American success near Belleau Wood. British air attacks on Saabrücken, Offenburg (13 miles south east of Strassburg) and Karlsruhe. |
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*{{EF}} M. Markiewicz (Socialist) forms cabinet in Ukraine, vice M. Lyshub resigns. |
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*{{SF}} Italians take bridge-head of Capo Sile. |
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*{{PO}} Speech of Chief Secretary for Ireland in House of Commons.<ref>Speech of Mr. Shortt (Irish Secretary) ''re'' Irish situation: (1) Two sources of Information ''re'' German plot: (''a'') inside Ireland, from literature and posters; (''b'') outside Ireland, information that Germany in spring was trying to get in touch with Ireland. German agent landed in West Ireland [[12 April]]. Two German submarines off west coast, where destruction of shipping impossible. (2) Justification of Government policy. Voluntary recruiting proclamation essential before conscription; Recruiting Council set up. Propaganda for Ireland being attended to.</ref> |
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==1919== |
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*Post Armistice: Bolsheviks 20 Miles from Perm, and advancing east of Ufa. |
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Latest revision as of 17:47, 25 July 2021
May
June
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 25 June.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 25 June on The Great War wiki.
1916 (Sunday)
- Battalion situated at Authuille Sector. 18 Pounder guns bombards German lines continuously.
- German retaliation is very heavy during the afternoon. Casualties: 1 other rank is wounded, 2 other ranks suffer from shell shock.
1917 (Monday)
- Ooste-Dunkerque: Battalion engaged in working parties totalling 107 men found for various works.
- Remainder of day spent in training.
- Battalion moves from Camp Gallimard to Camp Ribiallet at 9.30pm.
1918 (Tuesday)
- Battalion training continues; weather good.
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 (25 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.