29 August: Difference between revisions

A bombardment of the enemy's lines is carried out at 4:20pm by Allied Field Guns: 4.5 Howitzers, medium and light trench mortars and rifle grenades batteries.
The bombardment lasts for 30 mins with very little retaliation. The German trenches are badly damaged.
From 4:30pm to 10:30pm it rains very heavily causing some damage to the Lonsdales trenches and dug-outs.

1917 (Wednesday)

Battalion situated at Oost Dunkerque cleaning up billets; rains during the morning.

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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 (29 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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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-==1916==
+==1916 (Tuesday)==
-*A bombardment of the enemy's lines is carried out at 4:20pm by [[Allied]] Field Guns: 4.5 Howitzers, medium and light [[trench mortar]]s and rifle grenades batteries.<ref name="wdaug16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, August 1916]]</ref>
+*A [[bombardment]] of the enemy's lines is carried out at 4:20pm by [[Allied]] Field Guns: 4.5 [[Howitzer]]s, medium and light [[trench mortar]]s and [[rifle]] [[grenade]]s [[Battery (artillery)|batteries]].
-*The bombardment lasts for 30 mins with very little retaliation. The German trenches are badly damaged.<ref name="wdaug16" />
+*The bombardment lasts for 30 mins with very little retaliation. The German trenches are badly damaged.
-*From 4:30pm to 10:30pm it rains very heavily causing some damage to the [[Lonsdales]] trenches and [[dug-out]]s.<ref name="wdaug16" />
+*From 4:30pm to 10:30pm it rains very heavily causing some damage to the [[Lonsdales]] trenches and [[dug-out]]s.
-==1917==
-*[[Battalion]] situated at Oost Dunkerque cleaning up [[billet]]s; rains during the morning.<ref name="wdaug17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, August 1917]]</ref>
-==References / notes==
-{{reflist}}
+==1917 (Wednesday)==
+*[[Battalion]] situated at Oost Dunkerque cleaning up [[billet]]s; rains during the morning.
+<br/>
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
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