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*[[Battalion]] Order: {{quote-left}}In the afternoon baggage will be packed & barracks & lines cleaned under [[Company]] arrangements.{{quote-right}} <ref name="lowther135">{{lowther|recno=135}}</ref> |
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*Belgians repulsed at [[Driegrachten]]. |
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*Battalion Order: {{quote-left}}[[NCO]]’s & men who are unfit to march with their Companies on Wednesday ([[7 April]]) but who are pronounced by the M.O. fit to proceed to Grantham, will be marched to the Station & entrained in a separate Compartment.{{quote-right}} <ref name="lowther135" /> |
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*French make progress east of [[Verdun]], but are repulsed in the [[Argonne]]. |
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*Russians make further progress in the [[Carpathians]]. |
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*Union forces occupy [[Kalkfontein]] and Kamus (German south-west Africa). |
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*United States demands £46,000 for the sinking of ''William P. Frye''. |
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*[[King George V]] prohibits use of alcoholic drinks in any of the royal households. |
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*Mr. John Redmond addresses the National Volunteer Convention at [[Dublin]]. |
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*Battalion situated in [[billet|billets]] in Senlis, resting and cleaning up.<ref>[[11th Battalion War Diary, April 1916]]</ref> |
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*Deaths: [[Thomas William Brakewell (24694 Pte.)]]<ref name="cwgc">{{CWGC+SDGW}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 23:07, 5 June 2020
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 5 April.
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1915
- Battalion Order: “In the afternoon baggage will be packed & barracks & lines cleaned under Company arrangements.” [1]
- Battalion Order: “NCO’s & men who are unfit to march with their Companies on Wednesday (7 April) but who are pronounced by the M.O. fit to proceed to Grantham, will be marched to the Station & entrained in a separate Compartment.” [1]
1916
1918
References / notes
Material from Timeline/Chronology of the Lonsdale Battalion (September 1914 - May 1915) are sourced from the DLONS/L/13/13 Lowther Estate Archives. Entries from this timeline are reproduced here with kind permission of Jim Lowther and are not available under the license of this site. Please do not publish these extracts on other publicly visible media without prior permission from the copyright holder.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/135
- ↑ 11th Battalion War Diary, April 1916
- ↑ Soldiers Died in the Great War (1921) / Commonwealth War Graves Commission