3 August: Difference between revisions

Noyelle: All Battalion working parties are relieved by the 25th Infantry Brigade at 12:30pm from the Hohenzollern Redoubt and Hairpin Mines; they proceed to Noyelle for rest.
A party of four officers and 110 other ranks proceed to Annequin to form working parties for the 2nd Manchester Regiment.

1917 (Friday)

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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 (3 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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==
+==1916 (Thursday)==
-*Battalion 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> are relieved by the 25th Infantry Brigade at 12:30pm from the Hohenzollern Redoubt and Hairpin Mines; they proceed to Noyelle for rest.<ref name="wdaug16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, August 1916]]</ref>
+*Noyelle: All Battalion {{gw|working parties}} are relieved by the 25th Infantry Brigade at 12:30pm from the {{wl|Hohenzollern Redoubt}} and Hairpin Mines; they proceed to Noyelle for rest.
-*At 1:30pm a party of 4 officers and 110 other ranks proceeds to Annequin to form working parties for the 2nd Manchester Regiment.<ref name="wdaug16" />
+*A party of four officers and 110 {{gw|other ranks}} proceed to Annequin to form working parties for the 2nd Manchester Regiment.
-==1917==
+==1917 (Friday)==
-*Battalion situated at Coxyde continues indoor work and lectures due to continuation of heavy rain.<ref name="wdaug17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, August 1917]]</ref>
+*Coxyde: Indoor work and lectures due to continuation of heavy rain.
+*[[Private]] [[Albert Benjamin Lewis (27867)]] dies of {{wl|dysentery}}.
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
-==References / notes==
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