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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 13 August.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 13 August on The Great War wiki.
1916 (Sunday)
- Day is generally quiet. At 4:30am a bombing group in no.1 sap hears movement south of the sap when 6 men (Germans) appear.
- One of the enemy throws a bomb amongst our men who at once reply driving the enemy away.
- At 5:00pm the enemy explodes a mine near the 'Hohenzollern Redoubt'.
- At 7:30pm the Officer Commanding the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry visits Battalion HQ.
- Albert John Walton (16369) is killed in action.
1917 (Monday)
- Battalion spends the day cleaning up billets at Ooste Dunkerque. Inspection by the Deputy Assistant Director Medical Services.
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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 (13 August), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.