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The Lonsdales are relieved by the 17th Highland Light Infantry in front line trenches (Cuinchy Sector).
Relief commences at 12:45pm and completes at 4:30pm.

1917 (Wednesday)

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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 September), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.

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-==1914==
+==1914 (Saturday)==
+*Enlistments: [[George Henry Douthwaite (13809 L/Cpl.)]]
-===Western Front===
-*[[Troyon]]: Germans compelled to raise siege.
-*[[Luneville]] reoccupied by the French.
-*Belgian sortie from [[Antwerp]] threatens German communications.
-===Eastern Front===
-*[[Galicia]]: End of [[Battle of Grodek]] and [[Rava-Ruska]]: total defeat of Austrians; [[Grodek]] captured.
-*[[Poland]]: Austrians try to cross the San under heavy fire.
-===Southern Front===
+==1916 (Tuesday)==
+*The [[Lonsdales]] are relieved by the 17th Highland Light Infantry in front line [[trench]]es (Cuinchy Sector).
-*[[Syrmia]]: Serbians occupy Jarak.
+*Relief commences at 12:45pm and completes at 4:30pm.
-===Naval and Overseas Operations===
-*[[East Africa]]: Germans defeated near [[Kisi]].
+==1917 (Wednesday)==
-==References/notes==
+*Battalion situated in [[billet]]s in Wulpen. Everything is quiet.
-{{Gleichen-123}}
+<br/>
-{{reflist}}
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
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