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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 17 December.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 17 December on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Friday)
- Bouzincourt. Battalion relieves garrison companies.[a]
- Lt-Col. Machell: "All my Companies in the firing-line now as Companies attached to other Battalions, and I go out daily to see them. Am glad [?] was pleased with his glimpse of the Lonsdales. They certainly are behaving extremely well, and it is a very severe trial at first." [1]
- Thomas James Nicholson (15328) dies of wounds from injuries sustained on 14 December.
1916 (Sunday)
- Battalion situated in billets at Puchevillers.
- Church parade and inspection of billets by Commanding Officer.
- William Griffiths (27752 Pte.) dies of wounds.
1917 (Monday)
- Dambre Camp: Battalion moves to Wurst Farm by train, arriving 4pm.
- Lonsdales relieve the 2nd Inniskilling Fusiliers.
- John C. Atkinson (28229) is killed in action.
Notes
- ↑ The right half Battalion relieves two companies of garrison in the F1 sub-sector; left half relieves two companies of garrison in the F2 sub-sector.
References
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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 (17 December), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.