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Line 1: <noinclude>{{Calendar\|December}}{{Date-introtext~~}}<br>{{year-day\|Monday\|Tuesday\|Thursday\|Friday\|Saturday~~}}</noinclude>__NOTOC__ ==1914 (Monday)== Letter from the Chief Constable of Carlisle: "A number of your men have been rendering most valuable assistance at a very large factory fire that has occurred in the City this afternoon. Some of them inform me that they will be late in getting into Camp, and that they are wet through to the skin, they will have to go to their homes and obtain dry underclothing before they can return to Camp. I am deeply indebted to them for their hard work, and hope you will overlook their not being in Camp at the proper time." <ref>{{lowther\|recno=115}}</ref> ~~===Western Front===~~ Battalion order: "No soldier will ever be allowed to leave Camp unless properly dressed. Puttees will also be worn when walking out, and short canes carried. The latter can be obtained at the Y.M.C.A. Recreation Hut." Village of [[St. Georges]], near [[Nieuport]], recovered by the Belgians and French. Three men are punished,<ref group="lower-alpha">Punishments: [[Private]]s. J. Harding (13906), J. Heslop (15558), J. Birkett (13910).</ref> eight men are forfeited their pay,<ref group="lower-alpha">Forfeiture of pay: Privates. J. Lowry (13650), A. Mattinson (13853), J. Branthwaite (13883), J. Barlow (15529), W. Goodfellow (13250), J. Bannon (15542), J. Chisholm (13368), and J. Shannon (13386).</ref> and three men are posted to E Company.<ref group="lower-alpha">Strength on E Company: Privates L.W. Tweedie (17388), J.W. Cameron (17389), and Tom Harrison (17390).</ref><ref>{{lowther\|recno=135}}</ref> ~~===Eastern Front===~~ [[Poland]]: Germans in retreat; [[entrenching\|entrench]] west of [[Bzura]]. ==~~=Southern~~1915 ~~Front=~~(Tuesday)== Battalion is situated in the F1 sector near Bouzincourt, where special attention is paid to the repairing of [[trench]]es and construction of [[dug-out]]s. Montenegrins repel Austrians at Grahovo. One [[other rank]] is wounded. ~~===Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres===~~ Armenia: Turks repulsed from [[Sarikamish]]; they begin a disastrous retreat. ==1916 (Thursday)== ~~===Naval and Overseas Operations===~~ Battalion situated at Puchevillers, parading under Commanding Officer for drill. [[North Sea]]: Drifting German mines destroy eight vessels. [[Company]] training and Battalion bombing and [[Lewis gun]] classes. ==1917 (Friday)== *Battalion situated at Siege Camp involved in training. <br/> {{notes}}{{refs}}{{acks}} ~~==References/notes==~~ ~~{{Gleichen-123}}~~ ~~{{reflist}}~~ <noinclude> [[Category:Events by day\|363]]