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==1915 (Monday)==
*[[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]] to [[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale|Lord Lonsdale]]: "Received 600 badges with 1000 [?] badges perfect for caps total with depot 1600. Unsuitable for shoulder where usual Border badge must be worn. Suggest hundred extra....to supply officers’ collars if darkened locally." <ref>{{lowther|recno=279}}</ref>
*German counter-attacks repulsed and fresh progress made by French north of [[Soissons]].
*"An order to equalise the distribution of [[Rifle]]s, so that each Coy may have 100....Rifles will be handed over clean and in good order." <ref name="lowther135">{{lowther|recno=135}}</ref>
*Fierce fighting at [[Beauséjour]] Farm ([[Champagne]]).
*Inoculations that recommenced on [[8 January]] are to be resumed [[12 January]].<ref name="lowther135" />
*Rumanian Government negotiate loan of £5,000,000 in [[Great Britain]].
*Enlistments of the following [[private]]s:<ref name="lowther135" />
*Last rebels in the Transvaal captured (see [[28 December]], [[1914]]).
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*John McGenn (17472)
*W.H. Holliday (17473)
*G.B. McHolm (17474)
*Thomas Kidd (17475)
*Joseph Turner (17476)
*Robert Ross (17477)
*John Kidd (17478)
*J.G. Westgarth (17479)
*A.E. Watson (17480)
*William Little (17481)
*W. Thompson (17482)
*Thomas Bell (17420)
*McLaughlin (17421)
*F.W. Hogg (17422)
*M. Brannan (17482)
*T. Parkinson (17483)
*John Magee (17485)
*Jacob Walker (17486)
*George Bepple (17487)
*J.D. Nicholson (17488)
*John Rutherford (17489)
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*Promotions to [[Sergeant]]: T.W. Hodgkinson (13320), W. Richardson (13326), A. Moffatt (13685), F. Coates (13247), J.B. Holgate (13446), A.E. Ruddick (13216), J. Smith (13482), S.W. Kirby (13201), G.P. McCumiskey (13277).<ref name="lowther135" />
*Discharges: William Campbell, Fred Woodburn, Pte. J. Donoghue (13911).<ref name="lowther135" />
 
==1916 (Tuesday)==
*In the F1 sector near Aveluy. One man is wounded.
 
==1917 (Thursday)==
*3 Companies of the Battalion occupies the front line near Serre; one [[Company]] remains in Support.
*Enemy actively [[shell]]s system of [[trench|trenches]].
 
==1918 (Friday)==
*Battalion situated at Tournehem involved in defensive training and [[Lewis gun]]s on range.
 
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==Notes==
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==References==
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==Acknowledgements==
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