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==1915 (Saturday)== |
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*Second Battle of Ypres: British lose [[Frezenberg]] Ridge under terrific [[shell]]ing. |
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*[[Battalion]] moves to [[Prees Heath Camp]] in Salop (Shropshire) where it joins the [[97th Brigade|97th Infantry Brigade]], under [[Brigadier-General]] Hacket Thompson, C.B. |
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*Battle of Frezenberg Ridge ([[Ypres]]) begins (see [[13 May]]). |
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*The ground there is found unsuitable for [[Brigade]] Training.<ref>The whole of the 97th Brigade proceeds on to Wensleydale, Yorkshire on [[22 June]].</ref> |
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*Second Battle of Krithia ends (see [[6 May]] and [[4 June]]). |
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*Report from the School of Instruction, Stirling on Lieut. Davidson. {{quote-left}}A very hard working officer who has had very little previous experience. He should make a very good officer. His conduct was Exemplary.{{quote-right}} <ref>{{lowther|recno=?}}</ref> |
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*Battle of Sanok and Rzeszow begins (see [[14 May]]). |
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*Germans take [[Libau]]. |
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*Further Russian retreat in [[Galicia]]. |
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*Battalion in isolation camp at Contay Wood (measles) involved in [[Division]]al and [[Brigade]] manoeuvres, training and small working parties.<ref>A group of soldiers (or prisoners) that are assigned to perform manual tasks or duties, for their own or other units.</ref>Training continues during the whole period of isolation.<ref name="wdmay16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, May 1916]]</ref> |
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Revision as of 21:23, 15 July 2019
Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 8 May.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 8 May on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Saturday)
Notes
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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 May), 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.