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*Second Battle of Ypres: German attack repulsed near [[St. Julien]]. |
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*[[Battalion]] in isolation camp at Contay Wood (measles) involved in [[Division]]al and [[Brigade]] manoeuvres, training and small working parties.<ref>A group of soldiers (or prisoners) that are assigned to perform manual tasks or duties, for their own or other units.</ref> Training continues during the whole period of isolation.<ref name="wdmay16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, May 1916]]</ref> |
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*Austro-Germans take [[Gorlitse]] and Ciezkowica and cross the [[Biala (river)|Biala]] ([[Galicia]]). |
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*[[Lance-Corporal]] W.H. Postlethwaite writes from a home hospital to the [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]: |
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*Russians take Mt. Makovoka (near [[Styrj]]), but lose it again. |
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:{{quote-left}}Dear Sir, I have much pleasure in writing these few lines to thank you for the two parcels of cigarettes received. Also my thanks are due to my uncle W.T. Pursglove, of Philadelphia, and the Moss Bay Roll Turners, for their generous subscription to your valuable Fund, and their good wishes that you would send me some of your cigarettes. I was very pleased to note in the “Star” that you have carried out my wishes, and sent the surplus of my American parcel to my [[Platoon]] out in the [[trench]]es. The cigarettes which I have received here, and distributed amongst my fellow patients, are excellent, and I am sure that all the fellows “out there” will appreciate them. I sincerely hope they are having a quiet time, and are able to sit down and enjoy their smokes in peace, without being troubled even with an occasional visit by a “[[whizz-bang]]” which are very anxious to oblige by flicking off the ash of your cigarette. Of late I have been having a fairly hard time of it. I have been having some pieces of the Kaiser’s old iron taken from my chest, but thanks to the careful attention of the Sisters and nurses, and their untiring devotion to duty, I am again feeling almost my former self. The accomplishments of these “Florence Nightingales” of modern warfare will ever stand out in he annals of British History. |
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*[[Dardanelles]]: Turkish attack and Franco-British counter-attack; British fail at [[Gaba Tepe]]. |
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:All honour to them. Again thanking you, your staff, and readers, and wishing you and them all the very best of health and luck.{{quote-right}} <ref>''[[Busy Having Pieces of the Kaiser's Iron Taken From His Chest]]'' – [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]. Published [[12 May]] 1916.</ref> |
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*Russian Black Sea fleet [[shell]]s the forts on the [[Bosporus]]. |
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*Union forces occupy [[Otjimbingwe]] (German south-west Africa). |
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*Turkish Minister of War sends British and French subjects into the danger zone at [[Gallipoli]]. |
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Revision as of 23:02, 8 July 2019
Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 2 May.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 2 May on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Sunday)
- Second Battle of Ypres: German attack repulsed near St. Julien.
- Austro-Germans take Gorlitse and Ciezkowica and cross the Biala (Galicia).
- Russians take Mt. Makovoka (near Styrj), but lose it again.
- Dardanelles: Turkish attack and Franco-British counter-attack; British fail at Gaba Tepe.
- Russian Black Sea fleet shells the forts on the Bosporus.
- Union forces occupy Otjimbingwe (German south-west Africa).
- Turkish Minister of War sends British and French subjects into the danger zone at Gallipoli.
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 (2 May), 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.