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Battalion is situated in the front line; has relatively quiet day.
Gas is put over on the front but the enemy hardly retaliates. Casualties: two other ranks wounded.
Deaths: Tom Armstrong (202894) and Joseph William Hurst (202858 Pte.)

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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

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-==1914==
+==1917 (Friday)==
+*Battalion is situated in the front line; has relatively quiet day.
-===Western Front===
+*Gas is put over on the front but the enemy hardly retaliates. Casualties: two {{gw|other ranks}} wounded.
-*Battle of the [[Marne]] (continued).  Struggle on the [[Ourcq]] and [[Petit-Morin]].
+*Deaths: [[Tom Armstrong (202894)]] and [[Joseph William Hurst (202858 Pte.)]]
-*Mauberge captured by the Germans with many prisoners and guns.
-*[[Sir John French]]'s [[Despatch 7 September 1914 (FM Sir John French)|first despatch]] (published on [[9 September]]).<ref>[[Sir John French]]'s [[Despatch 7 September 1914 (FM Sir John French)|first despatch]] covers the period since the landing of British [[troops]] (1st Corps, 1st and 2nd Divisions; 2nd Corps, 3rd and 5th Divisions and 1st Cavalry Division) in [[France]] up to their retirement to the Oise ([[28 August]]) on the line [[Noyon]]–Chaulny–[[La Fère]]. It describes the battles of [[Mons]] ([[23 August]]), [[Landrecies]] ([[25 August]]), Le Cateau ([[26 August]]), together with the arrival of the 4th Division on the 23rd, and the general retreat necessitated by the overwhelming German forces, and the movements of the French troops who assisted in this theatre. Sit H. Smith-Dorrien and the [[Royal Flying Corps]] specially singled out for distinction.</ref>
-===Eastern Front===
-*[[Galicia]]: Fresh struggle round [[Grodek]]: Russian cavalry reach the [[Carpathians]].
-===Southern Front===
-*Second Austrian invasion of [[Serbia]] begins: the [[Drina]] crossed in force.
-===Naval and Overseas Operations===
-*[[East Africa]]: German reverse near [[Tsavo]].
-*[[Pacific cable]] cut between Banfield and Fanning Island by ''[[SMS Nürnberg|Nürnberg]]''.
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-==References/notes==
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