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==1916 (Monday)== |
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*Cambrin Sector: The Corps Commander <small>(GSO)</small><ref group="note">General Staff Officer.</ref> and <small>(CRE)</small><ref group="note">Commander Royal Engineers.</ref> of the [[32nd Division]] visits Battalion H.Q. during the morning. |
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*{{WF}} - [[Liège]]: German infantry penetrate the city. |
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*Commanding Officer visits the portion of the line at 2pm (where the Battalion takes over). |
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** [[Alsace]] invaded by the French. |
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*In 'High Street' [[trench]], enemy [[trench mortar]]s are active; there is no retaliation from our guns. |
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** [[British Expeditionary Force]] begins to land in [[France]]. |
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*Engineers explode a mine at 8pm in the left sub-sector where there is considerable [[artillery]] activity for about an hour. |
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*{{EF}} - [[East Prussia]]: First Russian Army, under General Rennenkampf, crosses the frontier in force.<ref>General Rennenkampf's main army crosses the frontier at Suwalki, and commences the invasion of [[East Prussia]].</ref> |
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*{{SF}} - Bosnia is entered by the Serbians. |
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*{{PO}} - [[Germany]]: [[Kaiser]] issues [[proclamation]] to his people.<ref>The [[Kaiser]] issues [[proclamation]] to the German people stating that since the foundation of the Empire he and his ancestors had laboured for peace, but "in the midst or perfect peace, enemies surprise us. We shall resist to the last breath of man and horse."</ref> |
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** [[Great Britain]]: [[Prince of Wales]] inaugurates [[National Relief Fund]]. |
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==1917 (Tuesday)== |
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*Coxyde: Battalion involved in training under [[Company]] Arrangements. |
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*{{WF}} - German attacks in [[Argonne]] and [[Vosges]] repulsed with heavy losses (estimated 4,000). |
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*Sea bathing takes place in the afternoon. |
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*{{EF}} - Russians repulse Germans near [[Riga]]. |
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** Enemy attacks [[Kovna]]; Russian retreat behind Jara. |
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** Enemy attacks with gas near [[Osovyets]]. |
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** Sierok (northern Georgievsk) occupied. |
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** Enemy reaches Vistula near Pienkow. |
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*{{SF}} - [[Gallipoli]]: Very heavy fighting and losses; little progress; frightfully hot. |
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** Italian [[artillery]] reaches Ercavallo Peak ([[Trentino]]). |
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*{{PO}} - [[Rumania]] mobilises 10 classes reservists. |
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** [[National Relief Fund]] total £5,431,671 in one year. |
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Latest revision as of 13:55, 8 July 2022
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 7 August.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 7 August on The Great War wiki.
1916 (Monday)
- Cambrin Sector: The Corps Commander (GSO)[note 1] and (CRE)[note 2] of the 32nd Division visits Battalion H.Q. during the morning.
- Commanding Officer visits the portion of the line at 2pm (where the Battalion takes over).
- In 'High Street' trench, enemy trench mortars are active; there is no retaliation from our guns.
- Engineers explode a mine at 8pm in the left sub-sector where there is considerable artillery activity for about an hour.
1917 (Tuesday)
- Coxyde: Battalion involved in training under Company Arrangements.
- Sea bathing takes place in the afternoon.
Notes
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 (7 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.