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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 13 February.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1915 (Saturday)

Events preceding the Lonsdales' arrival in France

• 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.

1916 (Sunday)

• The following newspaper articles Now then, You Lads at Workington and An Unlucky Company are published.
• 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.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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