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Line 1: <noinclude>{{Calendar\|March}}{{Date-introtext}}</noinclude>__NOTOC__ ==1915 (Sunday)== {{preceding}} French repulse all counter-attacks at [[Les Éparges]]. Proposal to proceed to Grantham by train on [[7 April]].<ref>{{lowther\|recno=279}}</ref> Attempted renewal of offensive by Germans in northern [[Poland]]. Failure of Austrian attacks and progress by Russians in the [[Carpathians]]. The first passenger ship (British {{SS\|Falaba}}) sunk by a German submarine<ref group="note">The {{SS\|Falaba}}, bound for South Africa, was torpedoed and sunk south of the St. George's Channel on this day in 1915, with a loss of 100 lives including many women and children, the passengers being given only five minutes to take to the boats.</ref> (see [[13 March]] and [[20 October]] 1914). Russian Black Sea fleet [[bombard]]s the forts on the [[Bosporus]]. [[Smyrna]] forts [[shell]]ed. ==~~Notes~~1916 (Tuesday)== Dernancourt: Situated in rest [[billet]]s. ~~<references group="note"/>~~ [[Percy Wilfred Machell\|Lt-Col. P. W. Machell]]: {{quote-left}}Getting short of officers. The regular battalions are always changing, but these North-Country men want to know their officers thoroughly or they count for very little.<ref>[[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France]]</ref> ~~==References==~~ ~~{{reflist}}~~ ==1917 (Wednesday)== ~~==Acknowledgements==~~ Battalion parades in fighting order and marches east, leaving Nesle at 12 noon passing through Voyennes to Toulle, arriving 3.30pm. They halt here for three hours. ~~{{acknowledgements}}~~ March continues at 6.45pm to area north of Germaine. <noinclude>▼ [[Trench]]es are dug on a 700 yard frontage, facing eastwards. Deaths: [[Thomas Gilbert Davies (27726 Pte.)]] / [[Ernest Harold Gough (27750 Pte.)]] ==1918 (Thursday)== Battalion moves from the sunken road at Ransart at 8.30am to occupy old trenches in the vicinity of Adinfer Wood. Two companies in rear and two on the right [[flank]]. Rear companies move to the front of the wood later in the day. Shelters are dug in the sides of old trenches. *Battalion Headquarters is located at the rear. ▲<noinclude>{{refs-notes}} [[Category:Events by day\|088]] [[Category:March events\|28]]