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Line 1: <noinclude>{{Calendar\|April\|hide31=yes}}{{Date-introtext}}__NOTOC__</noinclude>~~__NOTOC__~~ ==1915 (Sunday)== {{preceding}} French make progress south of [[St. Mihiel]] ([[Meuse]]) and in the [[Woevre]] district. Letter from the [[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale\|Earl of Lonsdale]] regarding the proposed move to Grantham: {{quote-left}}Obviously, I have no wish to express any opinion as to where the Battalion is sent, and I entirely agree with anything that [[Percy Wilfred Machell\|Colonel Machell]] desires, my one object being to further the interest of the Regiment, and am only anxious to agree with whatever he wishes.<ref name="lowther116">{{lowther\|recno=116}}</ref> Germans take [[Driegrachten]]. Lieut. Hodgkinson writes report on Belton Park Camp, Grantham, in preparation for the move.<ref name="lowther116" /> Russian hospital [[bombardment\|bombed]] at [[Radom]] ([[Poland]]). Russians occupy Cisna and reach Sztropko ([[Carpathians]]). Fierce battle at Okna (nezr [[Czernowitz]]). Russians defeat Turks at [[Olty]] ([[Armenia]]). {{SMS\|Goeben}} and {{SMS\|Breslau}} withdraw to [[Bosporus]]. [[Greece]]: Publication of a further memorandum by M. Venizelos, dated [[30 January]] 1915, on Greek foreign policy.<ref group="note">Venizelos explained the reason for the overture to [[Bulgaria]] and of its abandonment; the offer of the [[Triple Entente\|Entente]] to send a [[division]] to Macedonia not regarded by Greek general staff as enabling Greece to go to help [[Serbia]].</ref> ==~~Notes~~1916 (Tuesday)== [[Battalion]] is relieved by the 10th York and Lancaster Regiment. ~~<references group="note"/>~~ Returns to [[billet]]s in Senlis.<ref> ~~==References==~~ ~~{{reflist}}~~ ==1917 (Wednesday)== ~~==Acknowledgements==~~ Savy: [[Working parties]] in Étreillers and during the night. ~~{{acknowledgements}}~~ Commanding officers and company commanders go forward to reconnoitere the ground and enemy lines near the village of Holnon. <noinclude>▼ Deaths: [[George Crozie (30155 Pte.)]] ==1918 (Thursday)== {{B Company}}, {{C Company}} and {{D Company}} in [[trench]]es in the Purple Line. {{A Company}} situated in shelters on the northern side of Adinfer. Day is wet, spent improving trenches and shelters. Wiring is undertaken at night. ▲<noinclude>{{refs-notes}} [[Category:Events by day\|095]] [[Category:April events\|04]]