4 September: Difference between revisions

Battalion has comparatively quiet day in the front line; trenches consist of breast works in a poor state of repair.
There is a break in the line between the Left Company Front and Right Company Front due to a damaged bridge over a large dyke.
Deaths: William Fothergill (24750 Pte.)^[a]

Notes

↑ William Fothergill (24750 Pte.) date of death is listed as 4 September in Soldiers Died in the Great War (1921) and 5 September on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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

[1] William Fothergill (24750 Pte.) date of death is listed as 4 September in Soldiers Died in the Great War (1921) and 5 September on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database.

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 <noinclude>{{Calendar|September|hide31=yes}}{{Date-introtext}}</noinclude>__NOTOC__
-==1914==
+==1916 (Monday)==
+*Deaths: [[Thomas Ridley Garner (17543 Pte.)]]
-===Western Front===
+==1917 (Tuesday)==
-*Advance of German First Army towards [[Paris]] diverted in a south-easterly direction.
+*Battalion has comparatively quiet day in the front line; {{gw|trench}}es consist of breast works in a poor state of repair.
-*Belgians open dykes and stop a German advance on [[Antwerp]].
+*There is a break in the line between the Left Company Front and Right Company Front due to a damaged bridge over a large dyke.
-===Eastern Front===
+*Deaths: [[William Fothergill (24750 Pte.)]]<ref group="lower-alpha">[[William Fothergill (24750 Pte.)]] date of death is listed as 4 September in ''{{SDGW}}'' and [[5 September]] on the {{gw|Commonwealth War Graves Commission}} database.</ref>
-*[[Galicia]]: The Russians organise a government for the conquered regions.
-===Political===
-*[[Great Britain]]: [[Mr. Asquith]] gives [[Great Speeches of the War/Asquith|speech at the Guildhall]] and justifies Britain's entry into the war.<ref name="gsw">{{gsw}}</ref><ref>Patriotic appeal to the citizens of [[London]], emphasising the efforts made to preserve peace and paying tribute to the splendid response of the British Empire to the Call to Arms. The Prime Minister, [[Winston Churchill|Mr. Churchill]], Mr. Balfour, and [[Andrew Bonar Law|Mr. Bonar Law]], the leader of the Opposition, were the principal speakers.</ref> [[Andrew Bonar Law|Mr. Law]] also gives his [[Great Speeches of the War/Law|speech at the Guildhall]].<ref name="gsw" />
+{{notes}}<!--{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
-==References/notes==
-{{Gleichen-123}}
-{{reflist}}
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