13 February: Difference between revisions

Enlistments: John William Nicholson (17587 L/Cpl.)
W.J. Crook (13789), J.W. Taylor (13362) and T. Sisson (13483) of C Company are discharged on medical grounds.^[1]

1916 (Sunday)

The following newspaper articles Now then, You Lads at Workington and An Unlucky Company are published.^[2]
Albert: In billets in providing working parties for the Royal Engineers.

1917 (Tuesday)

Beaumont Hamel: In dug-outs at Station Road and Y Ravine.
Deaths: Charles Edgar Jones (33378 Pte.)

1918 (Wednesday)

Battalion is situated in the field. A repetition of the last two days.
Men work about six hours per day whilst specialists continue training.

Notes

References

↑ Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/135
↑ Workington Star and Harrington Guardian

Acknowledgements

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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

[1] Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/135

[2] Workington Star and Harrington Guardian

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 <noinclude>{{Calendar|February|hide30=yes|hide31=yes}}{{Date-introtext}}</noinclude>__NOTOC__
 ==1915 (Saturday)==
+{{preceding}}
 *Enlistments: [[John William Nicholson (17587 L/Cpl.)]]
-*Discharges on medical grounds: W.J. Crook (13789), J.W. Taylor (13362) and T. Sisson (13483) of {{C Company}}.<ref>{{lowther|recno=135}}</ref>
+*W.J. Crook (13789), J.W. Taylor (13362) and T. Sisson (13483) of {{C Company}} are discharged on medical grounds.<ref>{{lowther|recno=135}}</ref>
 ==1916 (Sunday)==
-*The following newspaper articles are published: ''[[Now then, You Lads at Workington]]'' and ''[[An Unlucky Company]]''.<ref>[[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]</ref>
+*The following newspaper articles ''[[Now then, You Lads at Workington]]'' and ''[[An Unlucky Company]]'' are published.<ref>[[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]</ref>
-*In [[billet|billets]] in [[Albert (place)|Albert]] providing [[working parties]] for the {{wl|Royal Engineers}}.<ref>[[11th Battalion War Diary, February 1916]]</ref>
+*[[Albert]]: In [[billet|billets]] in providing [[working parties]] for the {{wl|Royal Engineers}}.
 ==1917 (Tuesday)==
-*[[Battalion]] is situated in Beaumont Hamel in [[dug-out|dug outs]] at 'Station Road' and 'Y Ravine'.<ref name="wdfeb17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, February 1917]]</ref>
+*Beaumont Hamel: In [[dug-out]]s at Station Road and Y Ravine.
-*Deaths: [[Charles Edgar Jones (33378 Pte.)]]<ref name="cwgc">{{CWGC+SDGW}}</ref>
+*Deaths: [[Charles Edgar Jones (33378 Pte.)]]
 ==1918 (Wednesday)==
-*Battalion is situated in the field. A repetition of the last two days. Men work about six hours per day whilst [[specialists]] continue training.<ref name="wdfeb18">[[11th Battalion War Diary, February 1918]]</ref>
+*Battalion is situated in the field. A repetition of the last two days.
+*Men work about six hours per day whilst [[specialists]] continue training.
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