4 August: Difference between revisions

Newspaper article Private Harry Blair Missing from the Workington Star and Harrington Guardian is published.
During the morning there is battalion kit inspection by the Company Commanders.

1917 (Saturday)

Coxyde: Battalion involved in training and recreation.
Rains during morning.

Sources: Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile the Lonsdale Battalion on this day... (hover to read more)

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 (4 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 <noinclude>{{Calendar|August}}{{Date-introtext}}</noinclude>__NOTOC__
-==1914==
+==1914 (Tuesday)==
-===Precursor to British Declaration of War===
+*(General event) Great Britain [[gw:Declaration of War|declares war]] on Germany.
-*[[Great Britain]] protests in Berlin against German violation of Belgian treaty.
-*[[Germany]] says French meant to invade Belgian territory, and she must take measures of defence. Violates [[Belgium]] at Gemmenich, early morning; burns [[Visé]] and attacks [[Liége]].
-*Germany declares war on Belgium.
-*[[Bona]] and [[Philippeville]] (Algeria) bombarded by German cruisers ''[[SMS Goeben|Goeben]]'' and ''[[SMS Breslau|Breslau]]''.
-*[[Trieux]], near Briey (France). Taken by Germans.  Speech by French PM [[René Viviani]].
-*Chancellor's speech in Reichstag, acknowledging they are doing wrong.<ref>From the Chancellor's speech: "...A French inroad on our [[flank]] on the Lower Rhine would have been fatal to us. So we were forced to set aside the just protests of the [[Luxemburg]] and Belgian Governments. The wrong – I speak openly – the wrong that we now do we will try to make good again as soon as our military ends have been reached. When one is threatened as we are, and all is at stake, one can only think of how one can hack one's way out..."</ref>
-*[[Sir Edward Grey]] wires to [[Sir Edward Goschen]] telling him that unless satisfactory German assurances ''re'' Belgian neutrality are forthcoming, he is to ask for his passports.
-*British mobilisation orders issued.
-*[[Sir John Jellicoe]] takes command of British Fleet.
-*[[Sir Edward Goschen]]'s interview ("scrap of paper") with Chancellor in evening:<ref>[[Sir Edward Goschen]]'s final interview with the German Chancellor, [[Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg]], after the British ultimatum with regard to [[Belgium]] had been rejected. Chancellor deprecated going to war for the sake of "neutrality," for "a scrap of paper." Had the British Government considered the price at which compact would have been kept?</ref> '''British ultimatum'''<ref>[[Great Britain]] presents ultimatum to [[Germany]]. Ultimatum required that Germany should give unequivocal assurances that she would respect the neutral territory of Belgium guaranteed by her in 1839 and endorsed by her (in writing) in 1870. Failing this assurance, Great Britain would "take all steps" to uphold the neutrality of Belgium and the observance of the treaty.</ref> '''and state of war at 11 p.m.'''
+==1916 (Friday)==
-==References/notes==
+*Newspaper article ''[[Private Harry Blair Missing]]'' from the [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]] is published.
-{{Gleichen-123}}
+*During the morning there is battalion kit inspection by the Company Commanders.
-{{reflist}}
+==1917 (Saturday)==
+*Coxyde: Battalion involved in training and recreation.
+*Rains during morning.
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
 <noinclude>
 [[Category:Events by day|217]]