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==1914==
===Events preceding British Declaration of War===
*[[Kaiser]] leaves Kiel for a cruise in Northern waters.
 
==1915==
*{{WF}} - German success at Vaux Fery (Meuse). French recapture position on heights of the Meuse.
**&nbsp;British capture [[trench]]es near Pilkem.
*{{EF}} - Archduke Josef Ferdinand beaten near [[Krasnik]]. Russians take 15,000 prisoners between Krasnik and [[Lyublin]].
*{{SF}} - Battle for Carso plateau developing.
*{{NO}} - [[South Africa]]'s offer of Imperial Contingent gratefully accepted by Government.
*{{PO}} - Anglo-French Conference at Calais.
 
==1916==
*Battalion reorganising into two Companies in Contay Wood. Battalion strength is 11 officers and 480 other ranks.<ref name="wdjuly16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, July 1916]]</ref>
*{{WF}} - British win ground on slopes of [[Thiepval]]; two successful raids on Loos salient.
*Deaths: [[Caleb Walden Margerison|Lieutenant Caleb Walden Margerison]]<ref group="note">[[Lieutenant]] [[Caleb Walden Margerison|Margerison]] was the battalion War Diarist, Intelligence and Signalling Officer. One month prior to his death he took part in the [[Night raid on the Leipzig Salient (5 June 1916)|night raid on the Leipzig Salient]] at the [[Bull&#8217;s Eye]] German [[Trench]]es on [[5 June]] 1916. He [[died of wounds]] and is buried at {{CWGC link|id=7300|name=Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery}}.</ref> / [[James Campbell (19621 L/Cpl.)]]<ref group="note">[[Lance Corporal]] [[James Campbell (19621 L/Cpl.)|James Campbell]] of {{D Company}} died in the UK aged 21. He is buried at {{CWGC link|id=2068312|name=Bramption (St. Martin) Old Churchyard}}.</ref> / [[Thomas Campbell (13920 Pte.)]]<ref group="note">[[Private]] [[Thomas Campbell (13920 Pte.)|Thomas Campbell]] of {{D Company}} [[died of wounds]] sustained from action on [[1 July]]. He is buried at {{CWGC link|id=2800|name=St. Sever Cemetery Extension}}.</ref>
**&nbsp;French again repel attacks at Belloy; lose a small wood north of Hem. [[Artillery]] active at [[Verdun]].
*{{EF}} - Between the Styr and Stokhod Germans fall back in disorder from Chartorysk salient.
*{{SF}} - Italian pressure on the Trentino and Isonzo fronts continued.
*{{PO}} - Ministerial changes: [[Mr. Lloyd George]] becomes Secretary of State for War. Lord Derby, Under Secretary for War. [[Sir Edward Grey]] raised to Peerage as Viscount Grey of Falldon.
 
==1917==
*Newspaper article: ''[[Killed - Pte. James B. Simpson]]''.<ref>''[[Killed - Pte. James B. Simpson]]'' &ndash; [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]. Published 6 July, 1917.</ref>
*{{WF}} - Aerial activity south of [[Ypres]]. German towns bombed by French aeroplanes.
*Battalion situated at Nieuport. 2nd Lieut. Bishop is killed in a [[working party]] about midnight [[5 July|5th]]/6th by indirect [[machine gun]] fire.<ref name="wdjuly17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, July 1917]]</ref>
*{{EF}} - Russian attack in Galicia spreading in region of Stanislau. Heavy fighting near [[Brzezany]].
*Back areas are under heavy [[shell]]ing during morning and afternoon with 8" Naval Shells.<ref name="wdjuly17" />
*{{NO}} - British destroyer torpedoed in [[North Sea]], 8 lost.
*Retaliation from [[Allied]] field guns and heavies on M18.a. and enemy [[aeroplane]]s are active overhead.<ref name="wdjuly17" />
*{{PO}} - Crisis in Germany owing to the demand in the Reichstag for reforms in domestic and foreign policy and a peace without annexations or indemnities.
**&nbsp;Second reading of Conscription Bill in [[Canada]] carried.
 
==1918==
*Training continues for {{11BR}} with 1st Battalion 130th Infantry Regiment (USA) at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher.<ref name="wdjuly18">[[11th Battalion War Diary, July 1918]]</ref>
*{{EF}} - Cossacks fight Bolsheviks north-west of Nikolsk (between Vladivostok and Khabarovsk) and Czecho-Slovaks take Nikolsk.
**&nbsp;Assassination of Count Mirbach (German Ambassador at Moscow).
*{{SF}} - Piave delta cleared of Austrians by 23rd Italian Corps; 21,000 men and 63 guns, etc., taken by Italians since [[15 June]].
*{{PO}} - Publication of Mantagu-Chemsford Report ''re'' Indian Constitutional Reforms.
**&nbsp;U.S. first large aeroplane launched near New York.
**&nbsp;Silver Wedding of Their Majesties.
 
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