3 September: Difference between revisions

The Lonsdales relieve the 17th Highland Light Infantry in St. George's Sector at Ooste-Dunkerque; first company marches off at 8:30pm. Relief completes at midnight.
Disposition of the Battalion as follows:-
- A Company on the right;
- B Company on the left;
- C Company in support (garrisoning 2 farms on the polders);
- D Company in Brigade Reserve, acting as carrying parties for the front line companies.

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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 September), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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==
+==1917 (Monday)==
+*The [[Lonsdales]] relieve the 17th Highland Light Infantry in St. George's Sector at Ooste-Dunkerque; first [[company]] marches off at 8:30pm. Relief completes at midnight.
-===Western Front===
+*Disposition of the Battalion as follows:-
-*Germans reach and begin to cross the [[Marne]]: they occupy line Ville sur Tourbe-River Suippe-Chateau Thierry.
+**{{A Company}} on the right;
-*Germans evacuate [[Lille]].
+**{{B Company}} on the left;
-===Eastern Front===
+**{{C Company}} in support (garrisoning 2 farms on the polders);
-*[[Lemberg]], capital of [[Galicia]], occupied by the Russians, who capture much booty.
+**{{D Company}} in [[Brigade]] Reserve, acting as carrying parties for the front line companies.
-===Naval and Overseas Operations===
+<br/>
-*HMS ''[[HMS Speedy|Speedy]]'' destroyed by a mine.
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
-===Political===
-*Rome: election of Pope Benedict XV.
-*[[Albania]]: Prince Wilhelm of Wied leaves.
-==References/notes==
-{{Gleichen-123}}
-{{reflist}}
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