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Line 1: <noinclude>{{Calendar\|October}}{{Date-introtext}}</noinclude>__NOTOC__ ==1914== ===Western Front=== 6 men are recruited at Drumburgh; a further 2 men are recruited at Wigton.<ref>{{lowther\|recno=279}}</ref> Battle round [[Arras]]: French hard pressed. Newspaper article: ''[[Notes of the Week (Editorial about Raising the Lonsdales)]]''.<ref>[[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]], published 6 November, 1914.</ref> [[Antwerp]]: Belgians retire across the Nethe: Germans occupy [[Termonde]]. ===Eastern Front=== East Prussian Frontier: Russians recover [[Mariampol]]. ===Southern Front=== [[Bosnia]]: Serbians and Montenegrins renew their advance towards [[Sarajevo]]. ===Naval and Overseas Operations=== [[East Africa]]: British victory at Gazi. {{HMS\|Cumberland}} captures nine German liners, etc., in Cameroon River. ===Political=== [[Great Britain]]: [[Mr. Asquith]]'s speech at Cardiff disclosing German proposals to Britain in 1912. ==References / notes==▼ ~~==1916==~~ {{Gleichen-123}} [[Battalion]] practices crossing craters during morning, watched by the Commanding Officer.<ref name="wdoct16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, October 1916]]</ref> The Adjutant visits Battalion HQ in the Cambrin Sector; Sector Battalion is to take over. Very wet afternoon.<ref name="wdoct16" /> ~~==1917==~~ Battalion holds the left sub-sector of Lombardzyde Sector – dispositions are unchanged; 14 [[other ranks]] wounded, 1 other rank killed.<ref name="wdoct17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, October 1917]]</ref> ~~==1918==~~ *Deaths: [[William Osborne (13583 Pte.)]].<ref>{{CWGC+SDGW}}</ref> ▲==References / notes== ~~<small>{{lowther copyright}}</small>~~ {{reflist}} ~~<!--{{refs-lowther}}-->~~ <noinclude> [[Category:Events by day\|276]] [[Category:October events\|02]]~~</noinclude>~~ </noinclude>

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