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==1915 (Thursday)==
*French attacks in the [[Woevre]] district repulsed.
*Height restriction is reduced to 5’1” for the Border Regiment.<ref>{{lowther|recno=8}}</ref>
*Indecisive fighting in the [[Carpathians]].
*Letter to [[William Walter Riddell Binning|Major Binning]]: {{quote-left}}there will be no objection to your [[Company]] continuing to use the baths during this month, on Friday mornings, and if a 6th Company is raised there will be no objection to them attending the baths on any morning other than Tuesday or Saturday. After this month fresh arrangements will have to be made.{{quote-right}} <ref>{{lowther|recno=53}}</ref>
*Deportation and massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire begins.
*Battalion Orders: {{quote-left}}Latest instructions from Headquarters state that the concentration of the [[112th Brigade|112th Infantry Brigade]] is still in abeyance. Orders will be issued as soon as received.{{quote-right}} <ref>{{lowther|recno=135}}</ref>
*German armed merchant cruiser {{SS|Prinz Eitel Friedrich}} interned at [[Newport News]] (see [[28 January]]).
*Attempted assassination of Hussein Kamel, Sultan of [[Egypt]].
*Italian Note to [[Austria]], demanding territorial concessions in return for neutrality.
 
==1916Notes==
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*[[Battalion]] situated in [[billet|billets]] in Senlis involved in [[Company]] training.<ref name="wdapr16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, April 1916]]</ref>
==References / notes==
*A draft of 20 [[other ranks]] join the Battalion.<ref name="wdapr16" />
 
==1918==
*Deaths: [[William Charles Clarke (27717 Pte.)]]<ref name="cwgc">{{CWGC+SDGW}}</ref>
 
==References / notes==
<small>{{lowther copyright}}</small>
{{reflist}}
==Acknowledgements==
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{{acknowledgements}}
 
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Revision as of 10:43, 29 June 2019

April

Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 8 April.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 8 April on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Thursday)

  • French attacks in the Woevre district repulsed.
  • Indecisive fighting in the Carpathians.
  • Deportation and massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire begins.
  • German armed merchant cruiser SS Prinz Eitel Friedrich interned at Newport News (see 28 January).
  • Attempted assassination of Hussein Kamel, Sultan of Egypt.
  • Italian Note to Austria, demanding territorial concessions in return for neutrality.

Notes

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 (8 April), 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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