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==1916==
*Battalion situated in [[billet|billets]] in [[Albert (place)|Albert]] providing working parties<ref>A group of soldiers (or prisoners) that are assigned to perform manual tasks or duties, for their own or other units.</ref> for the Royal Engineers.<ref name="wdmarch16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, March 1916]]</ref>
*Captain A. J. Dawson is invalided home. Captain Corbett takes over command of 'D' Company.<ref>[[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France]]</ref>
*Joseph Martin writes a letter to the [[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]:
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==1917==
*Battalion situated in the Support Intermediate Line (Kuropatkin). The Lonsdales and Royal Engineer working parties<ref>A group of soldiers (or prisoners) that are assigned to perform manual tasks or duties, for their own or other units.</ref> in the [[trench|trenches]] during the day; relieves the 17th Highland Light Infantry in the front line trenches.<ref name="wdmar17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, March 1917]]</ref>
==1918==
*Battalion situated in the line. [[Artillery]] activity above normal. Enemy shells 'Egypt' and 'Ajax Ho' and [[Allied]] artillery retaliates effectively on enemy machine guns during the night. Two officer patrols leave Posts 11 and 19 and gain valuable information. Further officers patrols leave Post 3 and proceed along the railway and obtain useful intelligence there.<ref name="wdmar18">[[11th Battalion War Diary, March 1918]]</ref>
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*[[Joseph Oliphant (241653 Pte.)|Oliphant, Joseph (241653 Pte.)]]
*[[Edward Neal (4968 L/Cpl.)|Neal, Edward (4968 L/Cpl.)]]
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