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Battalion is involved in morning Divisional exercises. They bivouac in Bavelincourt Wood.
The Corps Commander, Lieutenant General Sir T. Morland, inspects the raiders (from night of 5 June) and congratulates them.

1917 (Friday)

Neuf-Berquin: Battalion stands-to.
Deaths: Robert Moffatt (17314) ^{[note 1]}

Notes

↑ Robert Moffatt of A Company transferred to the Labour Corps and then to the 8th Battalion of the Border Regiment. He died of wounds at just 23 years old. He is buried at Westhof Farm Cemetery.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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

[1] Robert Moffatt of A Company transferred to the Labour Corps and then to the 8th Battalion of the Border Regiment. He died of wounds at just 23 years old. He is buried at Westhof Farm Cemetery.

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+*Battalion is involved in morning Divisional exercises. They [[bivouac]] in Bavelincourt Wood.
-*{{WF}} - French hold all [[Neuville St. Vaast]], and make progress in the "Labyrinth" at [[Hébuterne]].
+*The Corps Commander, Lieutenant General Sir T. Morland, inspects the raiders (from night of [[5 June]]) and congratulates them.
-*{{PO}} - Ministry of Munitions Bill amended.<ref>An amendment to the Ministry of Munitions Bill made it clear that the Minister had no new powers to coerce workmen.</ref> Mr. Bryan, U.S. Secretary of State, resigns.<ref>Mr. Bryan's resignation was thought to be due to the the uncompromising character of the American Note, but the Note when published proved to be moderate in tone. The Note denies that {{RMS|Lusitania}} was armed, carrying cargo forbidden by American law, conveying [[troops]] from [[Canada]] or supplied with trained [[gunner]]s. It adds that these allegations in no case affect the legality of the methods of the German naval authorities and invokes "principles of humanity which throw into the background any special circumstances of detail that may be thought to affect the case."</ref> Mr. Lansing succeeds.
+==1917 (Friday)==
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+*Neuf-Berquin: Battalion stands-to.
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+*Deaths: [[Robert Moffatt (17314)]] <ref group="note">[[Robert Moffatt (17314)|Robert Moffatt]] of {{A Company}} transferred to the Labour Corps and then to the [[8th Battalion]] of the [[Border Regiment]]. He [[died of wounds]] at just 23 years old. He is buried at {{CWGC link|id=52001|name=Westhof Farm Cemetery}}.</ref>
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