27 July: Difference between revisions

Bethune: Battalion situated in billets. They parade for physical drill and rifle exercises during the morning; afternoon is devoted to cleaning up of equipment etc.

1917 (Friday)

Coxyde: Two companies on working parties digging cable trenches.
Battalion moves to Camp Jean Bart at 3:30pm; two Companies on night working party.

1918 (Saturday)

No war diary event for this day.^{[note 1]}

Notes

↑ The Battalion is most likely still situated at Abancourt involved in various forms of training.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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

[1] The Battalion is most likely still situated at Abancourt involved in various forms of training.

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-==1916==
+==1916 (Thursday)==
-*Battalion situated in billets at Bethune where they parade for physical drill and rifle exercises in the morning; afternoon is devoted to cleaning up of equipment etc.<ref name="wdjuly16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, July 1916]]</ref>
+*Bethune: Battalion situated in [[billet]]s. They parade for physical drill and [[rifle]] exercises during the morning; afternoon is devoted to cleaning up of equipment etc.
-==1917==
+==1917 (Friday)==
+*Coxyde: Two [[company|companies]] on [[working parties]] digging cable trenches.
-*Battalion situated at Coxyde. Two Compaies on working party<ref>A group of soldiers (or prisoners) that are assigned to perform manual tasks or duties, for their own or other units.</ref> digging cable trenches.<ref name="wdjuly17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, July 1917]]</ref>
-*Battalion moves to Camp Jean Bart at 3:30pm; two Companies on night working party.<ref name="wdjuly17" />
+*Battalion moves to Camp Jean Bart at 3:30pm; two Companies on night working party.
-==1918==
+==1918 (Saturday)==
-*No war diary event for this day. Most likely at Abancourt involved in training.
+*No war diary event for this day.<ref group="note">The Battalion is most likely still situated at Abancourt involved in various forms of training.</ref>
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+<noinclude>{{refs-notes}}
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