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Click on the year you would like to view the Timeline for.
\nTimeline 1914<\/a>
\nTimeline 1915<\/a>
\nTimeline 1916<\/a><\/p>\n

Click on a date below to go to Walter Draycott’s responding diary entry or see a graphic representation of the entire 1914 TIMELINE
\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
28-June<\/a><\/td>\nArchduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is killed by \u00a0Serbian assassins<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28-July<\/a><\/td>\nAustria-Hungary declares war on Serbia and Russia begins to mobilize troops<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1-August<\/a><\/td>\nGermany declares war on Russia<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2-August<\/a><\/td>\nGermany invades Luxembourg<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3-August<\/a><\/td>\nGermany declares war on France<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4-August<\/a><\/td>\nGermany invades Belgium and The United Kingdom declares war on Germany<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7-August<\/a><\/td>\nThe British Expeditionary Force arrives in France and the Battle of the Frontiers begins<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23-August<\/a><\/td>\nThe Allied Great Retreat to the River Marne begins. Japan declares war against Germany<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5-September<\/a><\/td>\nThe First Battle of the Marne begins as the German advance on Paris is halted<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a019-October<\/a><\/td>\nThe first Battle of Ypres in Belgium begins<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26-October<\/a><\/td>\nDraycott receives a letter from Ottawa directing him to have a medical examination and forward the document to Ottawa before he receives his transportation papers<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10-November<\/a><\/td>\nDraycott leaves Vancouver by Train heading to Quebec<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19-November<\/a><\/td>\nDraycott departs Canada on the S.S. Grampian and arrives in England 9 days later<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17-December<\/a><\/td>\nDraycott is officially transferred to the Princess Patricia\u2019s Canadian Light Infantry<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18-December<\/a><\/td>\nDraycott Embarks on the S.S. Cardiganshire for Le Havre France arriving the next morning<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Click on the year you would like to view the Timeline for. 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 \u00a0Serbian assassins 28-July Austria-Hungary declares […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":475,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-4472","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4472"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7481,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4472\/revisions\/7481"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monova.ca\/greatwarchronicles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}