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==19141917==
*[[Battalion]] situated in the front line has relatively quiet day.<ref name="wdsep17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, September 1917]]</ref>
*{{WF}} Battle of the [[Marne]] (continued). Struggle on the [[Ourcq]] and [[Petit-Morin]].
*Gas is put over on the front but the enemy hardly retaliates. Casualties: two [[other ranks]] wounded.<ref name="wdsep17" />
**Mauberge captured by the Germans with many prisoners and guns.
*Deaths: [[Tom Armstrong (202894 Pte.)]] and [[Joseph William Hurst (202858 Pte.)]].<ref>{{CWGC+SDGW}}</ref>
**[[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>
*{{EF}} [[Galicia]]: Fresh struggle round [[Grodek]]: Russian cavalry reach the [[Carpathians]].
*{{SF}} Second Austrian invasion of [[Serbia]] begins: the [[Drina]] crossed in force.
*{{NO}} [[East Africa]]: German reverse near [[Tsavo]].
**[[Pacific cable]] cut between Banfield and Fanning Island by ''[[SMS Nürnberg|Nürnberg]]''.
==References / notes note== ▼==1915==
*{{HF}} [[Zeppelin]] [[air raid]] on East Suffolk and London begins.
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