30 August: Difference between revisions

The Lonsdales have a comparatively quiet day in the front line trenches in Hulluch Sector.
Officers of the 8th Brigade, 3rd Division, visits the trenches before taking over the line from the 32nd Division.

1917 (Thursday)

Battalion situated at Oost Dunkerque involved in training under Company Arrangements; working parties at night.

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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 (30 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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==
+==1914 (Sunday)==
+*Enlistments: [[William Dornan (15451 Pte.)]].
-*The Lonsdales have a comparatively quiet day in the front line trenches in Hulluch Sector.<ref name="wdaug16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, August 1916]]</ref>
-*Officers of the 8th Brigade, 3rd Division, visits the trenches before taking over the line from the 32nd Division.<ref name="wdaug16" />
+==1916 (Wednesday)==
-==1917==
+*The [[Lonsdales]] have a comparatively quiet day in the front line {{gw|trench}}es in Hulluch Sector.
-*Battalion situated at Oost Dunkerque involved in training under Company Arrangements; 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> at night.<ref name="wdaug17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, August 1917]]</ref>
+*Officers of the 8th {{gw|Brigade}}, 3rd {{gw|Division}}, visits the trenches before taking over the line from the [[32nd Division]].
+==1917 (Thursday)==
+*Battalion situated at Oost Dunkerque involved in training under {{gw|Company}} Arrangements; [[gw:working party|working parties]] at night.
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
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-==References / notes==
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 [[Category:Events by day|243]]
 [[Category:August events|30]]