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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 12 May.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 12 May on The Great War wiki.

1915 (Wednesday)

Events preceding the Lonsdales' arrival in France

• Enlistments: Henry Jackson (19549 Pte.)

1916 (Friday)

• The following newspaper articles are published:
  • Brought Back Memories of Old 'Derby Days'
  • Busy Having Pieces of the Kaiser's Iron Taken From His Chest
  • Made Fritz Angry
  • Thinking of Uppies & Downies
  • Won a Football Competition
• Contay Wood: Battalion in isolation camp (measles) involved in Divisional and Brigade manoeuvres, training and small working parties.

1917 (Saturday)

• Offoy: Battalion in attack formation for inspection by General Officer Commanding the 32nd Division.
• Recreation during the afternoon.

1918 (Sunday)

• L'Arbret: Lonsdale training cadre leaves the 32nd Division and proceeds by train to Feuquieres to join the 66th Division.

References

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 (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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.