30 June: Difference between revisions

Newspaper articles: Had Severe Blows - Lonsdales Resting^[1] and Two in Hospital and One of Them a Lost Brother^[2] are published.
Battalion situated at Crucifix Corner. No fresh written Battalion Orders are issued. Sometime during the day notes and instructions^[3] are issued verbally by Lt-Col. Machell. Each man is thoroughly acquainted with the task that lay before him.
The Lonsdales move up at 10pm from dug-outs at Crucifix Corner to specifically dug assembly trenches in the thickest (and least damaged) area of Authuille Wood in preparation for Zero Hour on 1 July. A transverse trench used for communication purposes leads the men through the wood. They are hardly shelled during the night and suffer zero casualties.

1917

Battalion patrol examines the wires. Day is exceptionally quiet.

Notes

References

↑ Had Severe Blows - Lonsdales Resting – Workington Star and Harrington Guardian. Published 30 June 1916.
↑ Two in Hospital and One of Them a Lost Brother – Workington Star and Harrington Guardian. Published 30 June 1916.
↑ This is the final note with instructions from Lt-Col. Machell to the officers commanding the Battalion Companies.

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 (30 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.

[1] Had Severe Blows - Lonsdales Resting – Workington Star and Harrington Guardian. Published 30 June 1916.

[2] Two in Hospital and One of Them a Lost Brother – Workington Star and Harrington Guardian. Published 30 June 1916.

[3] This is the final note with instructions from Lt-Col. Machell to the officers commanding the Battalion Companies.

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-==1914==
+==1916 (Friday)==
+*Newspaper articles: ''[[Had Severe Blows - Lonsdales Resting]]''<ref>''[[Had Severe Blows - Lonsdales Resting]]'' &ndash; [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]. Published 30 June 1916.</ref> and ''[[Two in Hospital and One of Them a Lost Brother]]''<ref>''[[Two in Hospital and One of Them a Lost Brother]]'' &ndash; [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]. Published 30 June 1916.</ref> are published.
-===Events preceding British Declaration of War===
+*Battalion situated at [[Crucifix Corner]]. No fresh written Battalion Orders are issued. Sometime during the day [[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - Appendix E|notes and instructions]]<ref>This is the final note with instructions from [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]] to the officers commanding the Battalion Companies.</ref> are issued verbally by [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]]. Each man is thoroughly acquainted with the task that lay before him.
-*[[Great Britain]]: Addresses in Parliament on the murdered [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand|Archduke]]: Lords Crewe and Lansdowne in House of Lords; Messrs. [[Asquith]] and [[Law]] in House of Commons.
+*The [[Lonsdales]] move up at 10pm from [[dug-out]]s at [[Crucifix Corner]] to specifically dug assembly [[trench]]es in the thickest (and least damaged) area of [[Authuille Wood]] in preparation for [[Zero hour|Zero Hour]] on [[1 July]]. A transverse trench used for communication purposes leads the men through the wood. They are hardly [[shell]]ed during the night and suffer zero casualties.
-==1915==
-*{{WF}} Failure of German attacks at Bagatelle (Argonne) and Metzeral.
-*{{EF}} Germans cross Gnila Lipa line. Austro-German advance from Tomashov. Germans claim 150,650 prisoners in June.
-*{{SF}} [[Dardanelles]]: French take six lines of Turkish trenches. General Gouraud wounded, succeeded by General Bailloud.
-*{{PO}} Welsh miners' dispute settled. Changes in Russian Cabinet.
-==1916==
-*{{WF}} Continued Allied [[bombardment]] on [[Western Front]]. French take Thiaumont.
-*{{NO}} Baltic: Indecisive small British naval action.
 ==1917==
+*Battalion patrol examines the wires. Day is exceptionally quiet.
-*{{WF}} British capture further enemy defences south-west and west of [[Lens]]. German attack on Chemin des Dames. Violent [[artillery]] action west of Mort Homme ([[Verdun]]).
-*{{EF}} Heavy [[artillery]] action in [[Galicia]].
-*{{NO}} German forces driven from [[Nyasaland]] to the Rovuma border by British and Portuguese.
-*{{PO}} [[Greece]] breaks off relations with [[Germany]] and [[Austria-Hungary]]. Soviet delegates leave [[Russia]] for Socialist conferences in Stockholm, England, [[France]] and [[Italy]].
-==1918==
-*{{WF}} Two [[air-raid]]s on [[Paris]]. French success between [[Marne (river)|Marne]] and [[Ourcq (river)|Ourcq]]. German attack on British near Merris (River Lys) repulsed; British success north-west of [[Albert (place)|Albert]].
-*{{EF}} Murman Council decides to support Entente against Bolsheviks.
-*{{SF}} Italians capture Monte di Val Bello and Col del Rosso (Asiago). 2,000 prisoners.
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-==References/notes==
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-{{reflist}}
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