Timelines

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Timeline 1914
Timeline 1915
Timeline 1916

Click on a date below to go to Walter Draycott’s responding diary entry or see a graphic representation of the entire 1914 TIMELINE

28-June	Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is killed by Serbian assassins
28-July	Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia and Russia begins to mobilize troops
1-August	Germany declares war on Russia
2-August	Germany invades Luxembourg
3-August	Germany declares war on France
4-August	Germany invades Belgium and The United Kingdom declares war on Germany
7-August	The British Expeditionary Force arrives in France and the Battle of the Frontiers begins
23-August	The Allied Great Retreat to the River Marne begins. Japan declares war against Germany
5-September	The First Battle of the Marne begins as the German advance on Paris is halted
19-October	The first Battle of Ypres in Belgium begins
26-October	Draycott receives a letter from Ottawa directing him to have a medical examination and forward the document to Ottawa before he receives his transportation papers
10-November	Draycott leaves Vancouver by Train heading to Quebec
19-November	Draycott departs Canada on the S.S. Grampian and arrives in England 9 days later
17-December	Draycott is officially transferred to the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
18-December	Draycott Embarks on the S.S. Cardiganshire for Le Havre France arriving the next morning

DIARY ENTRY