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Line 1: <noinclude>{{Calendar\|May}}{{Date-introtext}}__NOTOC__</noinclude>~~__NOTOC__~~ ==1915 (Friday)== {{preceding}} [[Libau]] (Baltic Provinces) taken by German forces (see [[30 April]]). [[Percy Wilfred Machell\|Lt-Col. Machell]]: "The Battalion will parade for inspection by the [[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale\|Earl of Lonsdale]]....Dress [[khaki]], Marching Order – the Battalion will be formed in Mass and, after being inspected, will rank past in forms from the right hand and dismiss by Companies." <ref>{{lowther\|recno=278}}</ref> Russians fall back to the [[Vistok (river)\|River Vistock]], and retreat in the [[Carpathians]]. Letter from Lt-Col. Machell: "A & detachment D with all baggage & transport horses, 2.20pm....Baggage to go up to Camp by Contractor’s line – B & C & Horses 3.40pm. - Nothing in this train but men and officers’ horses....All well here....[[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale\|Lord Lonsdale]] has been and inspected us today & made a good speech which I hope will be published – There were some reports present. All cut and dried now for tomorrow & I expect a big crush in the town this time." <ref>{{lowther\|recno=42}}</ref> Massacres of Christians in Ottoman Empire. Letter to Lt-Col. Machell from GDS, High Wray Bank, Ambleside: "Welcome to your new camp. I hope you will find it really comfortable....We were very glad we came [to Carlisle]....and were in time to say goodbye to the first lot....I was very sorry you had such a mob at the end as I should like to have seen you march on but it was a wonderful sight the thin stream of [[khaki]] filtering through the two gates [The Courts] and then a sudden admixture of black coats and then the great rush coming through like a dam bursting. Well, it shows what a hold you had got on Carlisle and must surely make every man there wish he had been in your lines to have got such a send off. You deserve it too you have nursed those men and trained them and they must have often been a sore trial on your (hereditary) temper but it has been worth it all and now you can feel you have given the Empire a real tool shaped properly....out of what was at the beginning most unpromising material." <ref>{{lowther\|recno=57}}</ref> British Foreign Minister [[Sir Edward Grey]] sends a message to the Ottoman Government as to the placing of allied citizens in the danger zone. Sir Edward Grey gives conditional guarantee to Serbian Minister of eventual cession of Bosnia and Herzegovina with "wide access to the Adriatic" (see [[15 August\|15]] and [[30 August]]). {{RMS\|Lusitania}} torpedoed by German U-boat {{SMU\|U-20}} off south-west coast of [[Ireland]]: 1,198 men, women and children drowned, including 124 US citizens (see [[6 February]]). [[Japan]] presents an ultimatum to [[China]] demanding territorial concession (see [[9 May]]). ==~~Notes~~1916 (Sunday)== Contay Wood: Battalion in isolation camp (measles) involved in [[Division]]al and [[Brigade]] manoeuvres, training and small [[working parties]].<ref group="note">Training continues for those who are able during the whole period of isolation.</ref> ~~<references group="note"/>~~ ~~==References==~~ ==1917 (Monday)== ~~{{reflist}}~~ Offoy: Battalion drill at 9am. Recreation and sports (17th Highland Light Infantry) in the afternoon and evening. ~~==Acknowledgements==~~ ~~{{acknowledgements}}~~ ==1918 (Tuesday)== <noinclude>▼ Berles-au-Bois: Usual [[company]] training during forenoon. At Bavincourt the following awards are presented by the Corps Commander: [[DCM]] to L/Cpl. Todd; Ribbon to 2nd Lt. J. Hurt; **[[DSO]] Bar awarded to Lt-Col. Beasley. ▲<noinclude>{{refs-notes}} [[Category:Events by day\|128]] [[Category:May events\|07]]