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==1916 (Friday)==
===Events preceding British Declaration of War===
*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.
*[[1914]] [[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.
*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.
*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.
==Western Front1917==
*Battalion patrol examines the wires. Day is exceptionally quiet.
*[[1915]] – Failure of German attacks at [[Bagatelle]] ([[Argonne]]) and [[Metzeral]].
*[[1916]] – Continued Allied [[bombardment]] on [[Western Front]]. French take Thiaumont.
*[[1917]] – 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]]).
*[[1918]] – 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]].
<noinclude> {{refs-notes}}▼==Eastern Front==
*1915 – Germans cross [[Gnila Lipa (river)|Gnila Lipa]] line. Austro-German advance from Tomashov. Germans claim 150,650 prisoners in June.
*1917 – Heavy [[artillery]] action in [[Galicia]].
*1918 – Murman Council decides to support Entente against Bolsheviks.
==Southern Front==
*1915 – [[Dardanelles]]: French take six lines of Turkish [[trench]]es. General Gouraud wounded, succeeded by General Bailloud.
*1918 – Italians capture Monte di Val Bello and Col del Rosso (Asiago). 2,000 prisoners.
==Political==
*1915 – 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>
*1917 – [[Greece]] breaks off relations with [[Germany]] and [[Austria-Hungary]].
*1917 – Soviet delegates leave [[Russia]] for Socialist conferences in Stockholm, England, [[France]] and [[Italy]].
==Naval and Overseas Operations==
*1916 – Baltic: Indecisive small British naval action.
*1917 – German forces driven from [[Nyasaland]] to the Rovuma border by British and Portuguese.
==References/notes==
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