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==1916 (Thursday)== |
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*Battalion situated at [[Crucifix Corner]]. [[Allied]] [[artillery]] [[bombardment]] less intense. German retaliation is slight. |
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===Events preceding British Declaration of War=== |
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*[[Austria-Hungary]]: Secretary of the Legation at [[Belgrade]] sends despatch to Vienna suggesting Serbian complicity in the crime of [[Sarajevo]]. Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo and throughout Bosnia generally. |
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==1917 (Friday)== |
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*Ooste-Dunkerque: Battalion commences to relieve the 17th Highland Light Infantry at 10pm. Relief is complete at 12:50am on [[30 June]]. |
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*{{EF}} '''Austro-Germans advance towards the Vistula and the Bug'''. Russians repulse an attack near Halicz. |
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* Deaths:[[Charles Edgar Clarkson (263062 Pte.)]] / [[Sidney Frank Glanville (28642 Pte.)]] |
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*{{SF}} [[Dardanelles]]: Turkish counter-attacks repulsed with heavy loss. |
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*{{PO}} National Registration Bill introduced by Mr. Walter Long.<ref>The National Registration Bill provided for the registration of all people between 15 and 65 years of age in England, Scotland and Wales, Scilly Isles and (with reservations) Ireland.</ref> |
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==1918 (Saturday)== |
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*Battalion training proceeds at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher. |
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*{{WF}} Champagne: German first and second line trenches taken at Tahure; German attack on Hill 304 (Verdun), repulsed. |
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*{{EF}} Germans repulsed north-east of Vilna. |
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*{{NO}} Turkish steamers sunk by Russians in the Black Sea. |
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*{{PO}} Roger Casement found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death. U.S. demands apology from Austria for the sinking of the ''Petrolite''. |
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==1917== |
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*{{WF}} Continued British advance south of Souchez river; Avion entered. German attacks on Chemin des Dames front; French lose ground north-east of Cerny. German attacks near Reims repulsed. |
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*{{SF}} Austrian attack in Dolomites repulsed. Italians evacuate advanced position on Asiago Plateau (Trentino). |
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*{{AE}} Announcement that General Allenby has arrived in Egypt and assumed command of Allied forces in succession to General Murray. |
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*{{PO}} Speech by Mr. [[Lloyd George]] at Glasgow.<ref>Mr. [[Lloyd George]] reviewed the Military and Naval situation, speaking optimistically regarding the ultimate effect of the Russian Revolution and regarding the submarine menace. He said that the Government had come to the conclusion that the submarines could neither starve us out nor cripple our Military effort, and added {{quote-left}}we are beginning to get them.{{quote-right}} He afterwards discussed the prospects and terms of peace, arguing that no honourable peace was at that moment attainable. No detailed exposition of war aims was given, but he declared that Mesopotamia would never be restored to Turkey and that the question of the German colonies must be settled by the Peace Conference. The conditions of peace, he stated, must be {{quote-left}}guaranteed by the destruction of the Prussian Military Power,{{quote-right}} or better, by the {{quote-left}}democratisation of the German Government.{{quote-right}} While disclaiming any desire to dictate to the Germans their form of Government, he said that the [[Allies]] would enter into negotiations with a free Government in Germany with a different temper and with more confidence than they could with a Government dominated by the spirit of Prussian Militarism.</ref> |
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==1918== |
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*{{WF}} French, south of River Ourcq, carry hill between Mosloy and Passy-en-Valois. |
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*{{EF}} Provisional Government proclaimed at Vladivostok (some members remaining at Tomsk). |
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==References/notes== |
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Latest revision as of 18:16, 25 July 2021
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 29 June.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 29 June on The Great War wiki.
1916 (Thursday)
- Battalion situated at Crucifix Corner. Allied artillery bombardment less intense. German retaliation is slight.
1917 (Friday)
- Ooste-Dunkerque: Battalion commences to relieve the 17th Highland Light Infantry at 10pm. Relief is complete at 12:50am on 30 June.
- Deaths:Charles Edgar Clarkson (263062 Pte.) / Sidney Frank Glanville (28642 Pte.)
1918 (Saturday)
- Battalion training proceeds at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher.
Notes
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 (29 June), 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.