26 July: Difference between revisions

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 July), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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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+==1916 (Wednesday)==
-==1914==
+*Battalion marches to Bethune via Pont de Réveillon and Chocques, taking over {{gw|billet}}s on arrival.
-===Events preceding British Declaration of War===
+*[[Pte.]] [[George Sowerby (15384)]] [[dies of wounds]] (home).
-*[[Germany]] thinks [[Russia]] will not fight, but threatens mobilisation, i.e. war, if Russia does not stop her preparations, and asks Entente States to keep Russia quiet.  [[Kaiser]] and German Fleet return from Norway.
-*[[Austria]] begins to mobilise 8 corps on Russian frontier.
-*[[Sir Edward Grey]] suggests Conference of Ambassadors in [[London]].
-*Russia declares she will mobilise on Austrian frontier if Austria crosses Serbian frontier.  General Putnik released with apologies.
-*[[Montenegro]] orders mobilisation.
-*Gun-running riot in Dublin: apparent approach of civil war.<ref>Dublin: Grave encounter between 2nd King's Own Scottish Borderers and civilians owing to stoning of former by mob. Four civilians killed - one a woman. Sequel to gun-running by Nationalist Volunteers, Hill of Howth. Lord Mayor demands authority of which [[troops]] fired.</ref>
-==1915==
+==1917 (Thursday)==
+*Battalion moves from Bray-Dunes to Coxyde at 6:45am; arrives 9:30am.
-*{{WF}} - Attacks by Crown Prince in [[Argonne]] checked. French success on [[Lingekopf]] ([[Alsace]]).
+*Two [[gw:company|companies]] of the battalion involved in {{gw|working parties}}.
-*{{EF}} - Enemy held on [[Narev (river)|Narev]] line, fierce fighting east of Rojan; [[Zeppelin]] captured by Russians.
-**&nbsp;Germans repulsed at [[Shlok]] ([[Riga]]), warships co-operating.
-*{{SF}} - Italians occupy crests on Julian front and capture [[Monte Sei Busi]]; and attack [[Doberdo Plateau|Plateau of Doberdo]].
-**&nbsp;Great fire in [[Constantinople]].
-*{{AE}} - Announced that [[Nejd]] (north-east Arabia) has proclaimed its independence and put Turkish garrisons to flight.
-*{{NO}} - French operate against [[Lagosta Island]] ([[Adriatic]]) destroying Austrian submarine supply station, etc.
-**&nbsp;Italians land and capture [[Pelagosa Island]] (centre of Adriatic).
-**&nbsp;German destroyer sunk by British submarine in [[North Sea]].
-*{{PO}} - [[Great Britain]]'s reply to American Note of [[30 March]] received in Washington.<ref>The Note maintains that [[Great Britain]] has not departed from the main principles of international law, and gives precedents, during the blockade of Bermuda, for her action, suggesting that if a neutral country is aggrieved the remedy can be sought in courts or, eventually, in arbitration.</ref>
-**&nbsp;[[Canada]]'s recruits up to date, 140,000.
+==1918 (Friday)==
-==References/notes==
+*Abancourt: Battalion involved in training.
-{{Gleichen-123}}
-{{reflist}}
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
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