- For events that took place elsewhere in the Great War, see The Great War:12 May.
Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 12 May.
1915 (Wednesday)[edit]
1916 (Friday)[edit]
- The following newspaper articles are published:[1]
- Contay Wood: Battalion in isolation camp (measles) involved in Divisional and Brigade manoeuvres, training and small working parties.[note 1]
1917 (Saturday)[edit]
- Offoy: Battalion in attack formation for inspection by General Officer Commanding the 32nd Division.
- Recreation during the afternoon.
1918 (Sunday)[edit]
- L'Arbret: Lonsdale training cadre leaves the 32nd Division and proceeds by train to Feuquieres to join the 66th Division.
- ↑ Training continues for those are able during the whole period of isolation.
References[edit]
Acknowledgements[edit]
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 (12 May), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.