8 September: Difference between revisions

Battalion situated in the front line experiences some shelling on the Left Company Front.
Two other ranks are killed and three wounded.
Operation Orders are received from Brigade.

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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 September), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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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-==1914==
+==1914 (Tuesday)==
+*Enlistments: [[Leonard Close (13462 Pte.)]]
-===Western Front===
-*[[Battle of the Marne]] (continued).  Germans forced back over the river.  [[General Foch]]'s decisive move.
-*[[Nancy]] vainly attacked. [[Troyon]] bombarded.
-===Eastern Front===
-*[[Galicia]]: Fierce battle round [[Rava Russka]].
-*[[Mikolajow]] ([[Carpathians]]) captured by Brusilov's army.
-===Naval and Overseas Operations===
-*The ''[[HMS Oceanic|Oceanic]]'' wrecked off north coast of Scotland.
-===Political===
-*[[Mr. Lloyd George]]: Speech on the need for economy.<ref>"Silver Bullet" speech at Local Government Board to Deputation from the Association of Municipal Corporations. Points out necessity for curtailing expenditure and foretells heavy outgoings.</ref>
+==1916 (Friday)==
-==References/notes==
+*Battalion leaves Bethune for Quesnoy to take up a reserve position in the Cuinchy Sector.
-{{Gleichen-123}}
+*Relief commences at 1:30am and completes by 2:15am.
-{{reflist}}
+==1917 (Saturday)==
+*Battalion situated in the front line experiences some [[gw:Shell (projectile)|shelling]] on the Left Company Front.
+*Two {{gw|other ranks}} are killed and three wounded.
+*Operation Orders are received from {{gw|Brigade}}.
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
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