7 August: Difference between revisions

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

↑ General Staff Officer.
↑ Commander Royal Engineers.

References

Acknowledgements

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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

[1] General Staff Officer.

[2] Commander Royal Engineers.

[note 1]

[note 2]

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-==1916==
+==1916 (Monday)==
-*The Corps Commander G.S.O.<ref>General Staff Officer.</ref> and C.R.E.<ref>Commanding Royal Engineers.</ref> of [[32nd Division]] visited Battalion H.Q. during morning.<ref name="wdaug16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, August 1916]]</ref>
+*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.
-*At 2pm the Commanding Officer visited the right of the sub-sector (portion of line Battalion takes over).<ref name="wdaug16" />
+*Commanding Officer visits the portion of the line at 2pm (where the Battalion takes over).
-*In 'High Street' [[trench]], enemy [[trench mortar]]s are active; there is no retaliation from our guns.<ref name="wdaug16" />
+*In 'High Street' [[trench]], enemy [[trench mortar]]s are active; there is no retaliation from our guns.
-*At 8pm the engineers explode a mine in the left sub-sector, there is considerable [[artillery]] activity for about an hour.<ref name="wdaug16" />
+*Engineers explode a mine at 8pm in the left sub-sector where there is considerable [[artillery]] activity for about an hour.
-==1917==
+==1917 (Tuesday)==
-*Battalion involved in training at Coxyde under [[Company]] Arrangements.<ref name="wdaug17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, August 1917]]</ref>
+*Coxyde: Battalion involved in training under [[Company]] Arrangements.
-*Sea bathing in the afternoon.
+*Sea bathing takes place in the afternoon.
+<noinclude>{{refs-notes}}
-==References / notes==
-<references />
-<noinclude>
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 [[Category:August events|07]]