28 August: Difference between revisions

At 12:30pm the Lonsdales relieve the 17th Highland Light Infantry in the front line trenches (left of Hulluch Sector); relief is complete by 2:45pm.
The day is very quiet with little or no action to report.
The Commanding Officer inspects these front line trenches during the night.

1917 (Tuesday)

At 8:50pm the Lonsdales move from Canada Camp to Oost Dunkerque as Divisional Reserve; arrives 9:50pm.

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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 (28 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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 (Saturday)==
+*Enlistments: [[George Fawkes (13299 Cpl.)]].
-===Western Front===
-*Germans capture Fort Manonviller (Avricourt).
-*British on line [[Noyon]]-Chauny-[[La Fère]]: British cavalry successful near latter.
-*Fall of [[Longwy]].
-===Eastern Front===
-*Russians beat Austrians at [[Lutzow]] ([[Galicia]]).
-*[[East Prussia]]: Russians approach the ''[[SMS Königsberg|Königsberg]]'' in the north: but in the south the Battle of [[Tannenberg]] continues against them.
-===Naval and Overseas Operations===
-*Battle of Bight of [[Heligoland]]: the German cruisers ''[[SMS Mainz|Mainz]]'', ''[[SMS Cöln|Koln]]'', and ''[[SMS Ariadne|Ariadne]]'' sunk.
+==1916 (Monday)==
-==References/notes==
+*At 12:30pm the [[Lonsdales]] relieve the 17th Highland Light Infantry in the front line [[trench]]es (left of Hulluch Sector); relief is complete by 2:45pm.
-{{Gleichen-123}}
+*The day is very quiet with little or no action to report.
-{{reflist}}
+*The Commanding Officer inspects these front line trenches during the night.
+==1917 (Tuesday)==
+*At 8:50pm the Lonsdales move from Canada Camp to Oost Dunkerque as Divisional Reserve; arrives 9:50pm.
+==1918 (Wednesday)==
+*Deaths: [[Evan Davies (15447 Sgt.)]] and [[Herbert Arthur Napper (27792)]].
+<br/>
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
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