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==1916 (Saturday)== |
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*Battalion marches to Senlis and takes over [[billet]]s. |
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*Count Tisza makes grave statement in Hungarian Chamber concerning the murder of the Archduke. |
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*Captain Palmer of 2nd King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry takes over command from Lieut. Welsh. |
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*2nd Lieut. Brown of 17th Highland Light Infantry is attached to the battalion. |
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==1917 (Sunday)== |
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*Newspaper articles ''[[Killed - Pte. James Diamond]]'', ''[[Local Casualties - Cpl. J. Mewhorter]]'' and ''[[More Wounded]]'' are published in the [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]. |
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*{{WF}} French success at Fontenelle (Vosges). British repulse German attack south-west of Pilkem. |
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*Nieuport: Battalion moves into line at 9:30pm to relieve 17th Highland Light Infantry. Relief is complete at 11pm. Night quiet. |
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*{{EF}} Austrian [[troops]] withdraw to heights north of Krasnik after defeat on Urzedowka. |
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*Deaths: [[Percy Crompton (33550 Pte.)]] and [[Robert Pollard (33359)]] |
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*{{SF}} Monticello taken by Italians (Trentino). |
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*{{NO}} Union troops reach Tsumeb (German south-west Africa), releasing all prisoners captured by enemy. Germany reply to ''[[RMS Lusitania|Lusitania]]'' Note.<ref>The German attack is defended and proposal made that Americans should travel in their own neutral ships with sailing notified in advance.</ref> Italian cruiser ''Amalfi'' torpedoed and sunk by Austrians in Mediterranean. |
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*{{PO}} Third reading of National Registration Bill. Order in Council passed to increase Canadian Expeditionary Force to 150,000 men. Austrian Note to Romania. |
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==1918 (Monday)== |
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*Battalion training continues with 1st Battalion, 130th Infantry Regiment (33rd American Division) at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher.<ref group="note">The [[Lonsdales]] were in their final month before being disbanded. Where training is concerned, this was done alongside the American infantry. It was during this period that they moved to several different locations in the eventual run up to the disbandment papers being approved. On [[29 July]], 1918, the [[11th Battalion War Diary, July 1918|war diary states]]: {{quote-left}}orders received for WO's, [[NCO]]'s and men of the cadres to proceed to join the [[1/5th Border Regiment]] (A.G. letter C.R. 5/9054/30 G.) and for battalion to be disbanded from date of departure.{{quote-right}} The Lonsdale are disbanded two days later on [[31 July]].</ref> |
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*{{WF}} British penetrate southern part of Trones Wood; hand to hand fighting in Ovillers. French take Hardecourt. Violent [[artillery]] duel at [[Verdun]]. Heavy rain hampers operations. |
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*{{EF}} Russians break through north of Lutsk and cross Upper Stokhod at Ugli and Arsenovich, having advanced 25 miles in four days on a 40-mile front. South of Dniester they capture Delatyn and threaten right flank of Bothmer's army. |
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*{{PO}} A Russo-Japanese Agreement in regard to the Far East signed and announced.<ref>The object of the Russo-Japanese Agreement of July, 1916, was the mainenance of peace and the safeguarding of special Russian and Japanese rights and interests in the Far East. The text is to the following effect: "Article 1. Japan will not be a party to any political arrangement or combination directed against Russia. Russia will not be a party to any political arrangement or combination directed against Japan. Article 2. Should the territorial rights or the special interests in the Far East of one of the contracting parties recognised by the other contracting party be threatened, Japan and Russia will take counsel of each other as to the measures to be taken in view of the support or the help to be given in order to safeguard and defend those rights and interests. This treaty is a sequel to the Russo-Japanese arrangements concluded in July, 1907, and July, 1910."</ref> '''Order in Council rescinds Declaration of London''' of [[25 February]], 1909, and all orders arising therefrom. |
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*{{WF}} Heavy fighting on the Aisne; German attacks repulsed. |
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*{{EF}} Austrian front broken west of Stanislau by General Kornilov; 7,000 prisoners taken, cavalry pursue enemy, rout stemmed by German reserves. |
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*{{PO}} America declares an embargo on exportation of foods, metal and coal. |
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*{{WF}} Successful French attack north-west of Longpont (west of Villers-Cotterets); 346 prisoners. |
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*{{EF}} Czecho-Slovaks occupy Irkutsk. Declaration of aims to [[Allies]] by Siberian Government. |
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*{{SF}} Italians win passage of Vojusa and occupy Fieri (20 miles north-east of Valona); French and Italians threaten Berat (north-east of Valona). |
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*{{NO}} British monitors aid Italian advance on Lower Vojusa. |
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*{{PO}} Report of five M.P.'s ''re'' enemy aliens, recommending stricter treatment. House of Commons prolongs life of Parliament to [[30 January]] 1919. |
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==1919== |
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*President Wilson returns to the United States. |
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Revision as of 13:39, 8 July 2022
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 8 July.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 8 July on The Great War wiki.
1916 (Saturday)
- Battalion marches to Senlis and takes over billets.
- Captain Palmer of 2nd King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry takes over command from Lieut. Welsh.
- 2nd Lieut. Brown of 17th Highland Light Infantry is attached to the battalion.
1917 (Sunday)
- Newspaper articles Killed - Pte. James Diamond, Local Casualties - Cpl. J. Mewhorter and More Wounded are published in the Workington Star and Harrington Guardian.
- Nieuport: Battalion moves into line at 9:30pm to relieve 17th Highland Light Infantry. Relief is complete at 11pm. Night quiet.
- Deaths: Percy Crompton (33550 Pte.) and Robert Pollard (33359)
1918 (Monday)
- Battalion training continues with 1st Battalion, 130th Infantry Regiment (33rd American Division) at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher.[note 1]
Notes
- ↑ The Lonsdales were in their final month before being disbanded. Where training is concerned, this was done alongside the American infantry. It was during this period that they moved to several different locations in the eventual run up to the disbandment papers being approved. On 29 July, 1918, the war diary states: “orders received for WO's, NCO's and men of the cadres to proceed to join the 1/5th Border Regiment (A.G. letter C.R. 5/9054/30 G.) and for battalion to be disbanded from date of departure.” The Lonsdale are disbanded two days later on 31 July.
Sources: Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile the Lonsdale Battalion on this day... (hover to read more)
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 July), 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.