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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 21 March.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 21 March on The Great War wiki.
1916 (Tuesday)
- Hénencourt: In the E1 sector. The front very quiet.
1917 (Wednesday)
- Nesle: Working parties on roads and bridges destroyed by the enemy. Craters on cross roads are filled in.
1918 (Thursday)
- Battalion is situated in the line. Day is quiet except for gas bombardment of back areas.
- The men are relieved in the line by the 15th Highland Light Infantry. Completes by 10.30pm.
- March to 'Canal Bank.' Brigade moves into Divisional Reserve.
- Raiders under 2nd Lieut. J.R. McDonald MC, rejoins rest of Battalion.
- Deaths: Sydney Bishopbrigg (19626 Pte.) / Herbert Murray (35349) / Thomas Fletcher Pattinson (19423)
Sources: Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile the Lonsdale Battalion on this day... (hover to read more)
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 (21 March), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.