26 August: Difference between revisions

Battalion situated in the Hulluch Sector.
10:30am: the Commanding Officer visits the 17th Highland Light Infantry Battalion HQ.
2:00pm: the Commanding Officer visits the front line trenches which will be taken over by the Battalion on 28 August. Day very quiet.
Deaths: Oswald Dixon (15117 Pte.).

1917 (Sunday)

The Lonsdales bathe at Divisional baths - Pont de Ghyvelde.
Major T.F. Tweed takes over command of the Battalion.

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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 (26 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.

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-==1914==
+==1916 (Saturday)==
+*[[Battalion]] situated in the Hulluch Sector.
-===Western Front===
+*10:30am: the Commanding Officer visits the 17th Highland Light Infantry Battalion HQ.
-*Battle of [[Le Cateau]]:<ref>Battle of [[Le Cateau]] – The close pursuit by von Kluck's 1st Army caused the British 2nd Corps (3rd and 5th Divisions) to halt in its retirement from [[Mons]] and give battle on the hight ground west of Le Cateau. Strengthened by most of the 4th Division on its left and the 19th Brigade on its right, the 2nd Corps (Sir H. Smith-Dorrien) withstood terrific [[artillery]] fire from violent attacks by the enemy till about 3 p.m., when, its right being penetrated and rolled up, it continued the retirement on [[St. Quentin]] in good spirits, the Germans being too exhausted by their losses to pursue in force. Sordet's French Cavalry Corps came up during the battle and assisted on the left.</ref> British forced to retreat: [[Louvain]] destroyed by the Germans.
+*2:00pm: the Commanding Officer visits the front line [[trench]]es which will be taken over by the Battalion on [[28 August]]. Day very quiet.
-*End of French attempt to recover [[Alsace]]-[[Lorraine]]: French fall back in [[St. Dié]] region.
+*Deaths: [[Oswald Dixon (15117 Pte.)]].
-===Eastern Front===
+==1917 (Sunday)==
+*The [[Lonsdale Battalion|Lonsdales]] bathe at Divisional baths -  Pont de Ghyvelde.
-*[[East Prussia]]: [[Soldau]] retaken by the Germans: Samsonov's communications cut: beginning of the Russian debacle known as Battle of [[Tannenberg]] (25 miles south-west of [[Allenstein]]).
+*[[Major]] T.F. Tweed takes over command of the Battalion.
-*[[Galicia]]: Beginning of operations against [[Lemberg]].
+<br/>
-===Southern Front===
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
-*[[Novi Bazar]] evacuated by the Austrians.
-===Naval and Overseas Operations===
-*[[Togoland]] conquered by the [[Allies]]: town of [[Atakpame]] occupied.
-==References/notes==
-{{Gleichen-123}}
-{{reflist}}
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