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Line 1: <noinclude>{{Calendar\|April\|hide31=yes}}{{Date-introtext}}__NOTOC__</noinclude>~~__NOTOC__~~ ==1915 ~~(Thursday)~~== Height restriction is reduced to 5’1” for the Border Regiment.<ref>{{lowther\|recno=8}}</ref> French attacks in the [[Woevre]] district repulsed. 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> Indecisive fighting in the [[Carpathians]]. 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> Deportation and massacre of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire begins.<ref group="note">Deportation began at Zeitoun in Cilicia, and continued with massacres through 1915 from one Armenian centre to another all over the Ottoman Empire.</ref> German armed merchant cruiser {{SS\|Prinz Eitel Friedrich}} interned at Newport News, [[United States]] (see [[28 January]]). Attempted assassination of Hussein Kamel, Sultan of [[Egypt]]. Italian Note to [[Austria]], demanding territorial concessions in return for neutrality.<ref group="note">[[Italy]] demanded cession of [[Trentino]], Dalmatian Islands, [[Gorizia]] and Gradisca; rectification of eastern frontier; renunciation of Austrian interests in [[Albania]]; recognition of Italian sovereignty over Valona; [[Trieste]] to be an independent state; amnesty to all military and political prisoners in the ceded districts. Italy to pay [[Austria]] 200,000,000 lire and to remain neutral.</ref> ==~~Notes~~1916== [[Battalion]] situated in [[billet\|billets]] in Senlis involved in [[Company]] training.<ref name="wdapr16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, April 1916]]</ref> ~~<references group="note"/>~~ A draft of 20 [[other ranks]] join the Battalion.<ref name="wdapr16" /> ==References==▼ ==1918== Deaths: [[William Charles Clarke (27717 Pte.)]]<ref name="cwgc">{{CWGC+SDGW}}</ref> ▲==References / notes== <small>{{lowther copyright}}</small> {{reflist}} <!--{{refs-lowther}}--> ~~==Acknowledgements==~~ ~~{{acknowledgements}}~~ <noinclude> [[Category:Events by day\|099]]

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