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==19141916 (Friday)==
*Newspaper articles: ''[[Had Severe Blows - Lonsdales Resting]]''<ref>''[[Had Severe Blows - Lonsdales Resting]]'' – [[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]]'' – [[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 (river)|Gnila Lipa]] line. Austro-German advance from Tomashov. Germans claim 150,650 prisoners in June.
*{{SF}} - [[Dardanelles]]: French take six lines of Turkish [[trench]]es. General Gouraud wounded, succeeded by General Bailloud.
*{{PO}} - Welsh miners' dispute settled. Changes in Russian Cabinet.<ref>The Russian Ministry included M. Khvostov as Minister of Justice, M. Samarin as Procurator of the Holy Synod, and M. Krivoshein.</ref>
==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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