27 August: Difference between revisions

Hulluch Sector: At 10:00am a conference is held at Battalion HQ by Brigadier-General Jardine; officers commanding battalions are present.
Day very quiet.

1917 (Monday)

Battalion moves at 1:30pm to Canada Camp via Bray-Dunes: along the beach past La Panne, then to St Idesbalde and inland to Canada Camp; arrives 6:30pm.

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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 (27 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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==
+==1915 (Friday)==
+*The [[Lonsdales]] are taken over by the War Office almost one year after it is formed by [[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale|Lord Lonsdale]] and an Executive Committee.
-===Western Front===
-*British fall back from [[St. Quentin]].
-*[[Lille]] and [[Mézières]] occupied by the Germans.
-*[[Namur]]: Last of the forts reduced.
-*[[Ostend]] occupied by mixed British force (Marines, etc.).
-===Eastern Front===
+==1916 (Sunday)==
+* Hulluch Sector: At 10:00am a conference is held at Battalion HQ by [[Brigadier-General]] Jardine; officers commanding battalions are present.
-*[[Galicia]]: Russians capture [[Halicz]] and [[Tarnopol]].
+*Day very quiet.
-===Naval and Overseas Operations===
-*SS ''[[SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse|Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse]]'' sunk by HMS ''[[HMS Highflyer|Highflyer]]''.
-*SMS ''[[SMS Magdeburg|Magdeburg]]'', German cruiser, destroyed in Gulf of Finland.
-===Political===
-*[[France]]: M. [[Viviani]]'s Ministry reconstructed: entry of M. [[Millerand]] (War) and [[Delcassé]] (Foreign Affairs).
+==1917 (Monday)==
-==References/notes==
+*Battalion moves at 1:30pm to Canada Camp via Bray-Dunes: along the beach past La Panne, then to St Idesbalde and inland to Canada Camp; arrives 6:30pm.
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+<br/>
-{{reflist}}
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
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