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<div style="font-size:250%; font-weight:100; text-align:center;">Welcome to the Lonsdale Battalion</div>
<div style="font-size:130%; font-weight:100; text-align:center;'>The home of the<br>11th (Service) Battalion Border Regiment in the First World War</div>
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| style="padding:5px 30px 5px 30px; vertical-align:top; font-style:italic;"|All will be more comfortable when our division takes over. The Commanding Officer's are well enough off always, apparently, having pretty good dug-outs and a chance of drying up, but I feel very bad about the men, and one can’t do enough for them.<br><span style="font-style:normal;"> —Lt. Col. P.W. Machell, Commanding Officer</span>
| 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;"> —Major P.G.W. Diggle, 2nd in Command</span>
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<div style="font-size:130%; font-weight:100; text-align:center;">Battalion motto</div>
<div style="font-size:185%; font-weight:100; text-align:center;">Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense — Evil be to Him who Evil Thinks</div>
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<div style="font-size:200%; font-weight:100; text-align:center;">Want to find out more?</div>
<div style="font-size:130%; font-weight:100; text-align:center;">Discover the history of the Lonsdales and their actions in the First World War.<br>Press the button below to enter and begin your journey.</div>
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Revision as of 23:06, 6 July 2016
Welcome to the Lonsdale Battalion
The home of the
11th (Service) Battalion Border Regiment in the First World War
11th (Service) Battalion Border Regiment in the First World War
All will be more comfortable when our division takes over. The Commanding Officer's are well enough off always, apparently, having pretty good dug-outs and a chance of drying up, but I feel very bad about the men, and one can’t do enough for them. —Lt. Col. P.W. Machell, Commanding Officer |
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. —Major P.G.W. Diggle, 2nd in Command |
Battalion motto
Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense — Evil be to Him who Evil Thinks
Want to find out more?
Discover the history of the Lonsdales and their actions in the First World War.
Press the button below to enter and begin your journey.
Press the button below to enter and begin your journey.