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Line 1: <noinclude>{{Calendar\|October}}{{Date-introtext}}</noinclude>__NOTOC__ ==1914 (Thursday)== [[John Barker (15427)]] enlists in Kendal. ~~===Western Front===~~ General Equipment Indent: 955 short rifles, 953 sword bayonets, 953 scabbards, 5 Webley pistols, 955 bottles of oil, 955 pull-throughs, 12 mirror reflectors, 5 pistol cleaning roads.<ref>{{lowther\|recno=66}}</ref> [[Battle of the Yser]]: Germans take [[Ramscapelle]]. The Belgians open the sluices of the canal. Heavy fighting round [[Festubert]] ([[La Bassée]]). ~~===Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres===~~ [[Egypt]]: Beduin tribes raid the frontier. ~~===Naval and Overseas Operations===~~ Turkish fleet attacks [[Odessa]], [[Novorossisk]], and [[Theodosia]], and sinks Russian destroyer, etc. ~~===Political===~~ [[Great Britain]]: [[Lord Fisher]] appointed First Sea Lord. [[Turkey]] enters the war on the German side.<ref>[[Turkey]] enters the war on the side of the [[Central Powers]]. Telegram from Petrograd states that German-Turkish warships {{SMS\|Breslau}} and {{SMS\|Hamidia}} bombarded simultaneously and unexpectedly the unfortified seaside towns of [[Theodosia]] and [[Novorossisk]] respectively.</ref> ==1916 (Sunday)== ~~==References/notes==~~ Battalion situated in Bouzincourt. ~~{{Gleichen-123}}~~ General parades and [[working parties]] for the {{wl\|Royal Engineers}}. ~~{{reflist}}~~ ==1917 (Monday)== Battalion situated in the Roubrouck Area. Companies at the disposal of [[Company]] Commanders. <br/> <!--{{notes}}-->{{refs}}{{acks}} <noinclude> [[Category:Events by day\|303]]