31 July: Difference between revisions

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 (31 July), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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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-==1914==
+==1916 (Monday)==
+*Noyelles: Battalion carrying parties for mines.
-===Events preceding British Declaration of War===
+*Deaths: [[Thomas Smith Glasson (15430 L/Cpl.)]]
-*[[Russia]] still complaisant, but as [[Austria]] is not responsive she announces her general mobilisation.
-*Austria also announces general mobilisation.
-*[[Germany]] declares Kriegsgefahrsustand,<ref>Meaning an imminient-danger-of-war situation.</ref> and tells Russia (definite threat not delivered till midnight) that she proposes to mobilise unless Russia stops all military measures within 12 hours.<ref>German ultimatum to [[Russia]] (midnight July 31 - [[1 August|August 1]]) that if within 12 hours she did not demobilise, [[Germany]] would mobilise. No answer being received, Germany declared war ("accepts the challenge") at 5 p.m., August 1.</ref> She also informs [[France]] of her intention towards Russia, and demands to know within 18 hours whether France will remain neutral.<ref>German ultimatum to France (July 31) demanding to know within 18 hours her attitude in the event of a Russo-German War.</ref><ref>In that case she would have demanded the temporary cession of Toul and [[Verdun]]. [[René Viviani]], however, merely replied that France would act according to her interests.</ref>
-*[[France]] notifies her Ambassadors that Germany, whilst protesting peaceful intentions, has throughout by her dilatory or negative attitude caused all attempts at agreement to fail.
-*[[Sir Edward Grey]] goes to the furthest possible limit in endeavouring to persuade Germany to assist him in squaring matters between Austria and [[Serbia]]. Asks France and Germany whether they intend to respect Belgian neutrality; France says, "certainly," Germany refuses to reply. British Cabinet not yet prepared to give France definite pledge of assistance.
-*Financial crisis in [[London]]. Stock Exchange closed.
-*Belgian mobilisation decreed for following day.
-*[[Jean Jaurès]] (Socialist leader) assassinated in [[Paris]].
-*Mobilisation commenced in [[Turkey]].
+==1917 (Tuesday)==
-==References/notes==
+*Battalion training [[specialists]] during the day. Inspections etc.
-{{Gleichen-123}}
-{{reflist}}
+==1918 (Wednesday)==
+*Battalion proceeds by train at 10:30am from Romescamp to join the [[1/5th Border Regiment]].
+*'''The Lonsdale Battalion is disbanded from today'''.
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