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A daily listing of events across all fronts that took place on this day between 1914–1918. This information refreshes daily.

1916 (Saturday)

Battalion in the Authuille Sector. Artillery is active on the right and a few trench mortars on the left.
John McGenn (17472) of C Company is killed in action during this artillery and trench mortar activity.
Two other ranks are wounded.

1917 (Sunday)

Domart: Church Parade and presentation of Military Medals by Lt-Col. GIRDWOOD DSO, Commanding Battalion.

1918 (Monday)

Maisinieres: The 1st Battalion 328 U.S. Infantry Regiment arrives and billets; 2 companies at Buigny and 2 companies at Montcelet under canvas.

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 (Main Page), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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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-| style="padding:5px 30px 5px 30px; vertical-align:top; font-style:italic;"|For the first six months there was never a night that the C.O. did not go round the trenches. Not a casual walk round, but four or fives hours out…We had the name of being the best Infantry Battalion in France, among any of those who had to do with us.<br><span style="font-style:normal;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;—Major P.G.W. Diggle, 2nd in Command</span>
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-The Lonsdales were a 'Pals' battalion, volunteers answering Field Marshal Earl Kitchener's call to arms - to fight for King and Country. ([[The Lonsdale Battalion - an introduction|Interested? Get started here]])
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-On this day is a listing of historical events of the Lonsdale Battalion, from 1914&ndash;1918. The actions of this 'Pals' battalion are included as a daily digest of Lonsdale events that took place 'on this day.' Included are: training, working parties, front line action, night raids, brigade parades, reconnoitring, route marches, church parades, casualty figures and many others. ([[About 'on this day'|Learn more about this project]])
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-The 11th Battalion Roll of Honour has been transcribed as it was printed in HMSO’s ''[[Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19, Volume 39, The Border Regiment]]''. This is a complete list of men killed whilst serving in the Lonsdale Battalion during the war. Many men listed here served in many other regiments, the most common ones being the Herefordshire, Essex and Liverpool Regiments. ([[Lonsdale Battalion Roll of Honour|Scroll through the roll]])
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-Read a selection of quotes from various source materials. The words offer the reader a glimpse into the lives of the men and officers and the very things they bore witness to first-hand. Quotes from the Battalion war diaries give a unique insight to the mundane duties of trench warfare, the horrors of battle and the praising of their fellow brothers in the course of their duties. ([[Lonsdale Battalion quotes|Read on]])
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