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

1914 (Tuesday)

• 12 men are recruited at Burgh-by-Sands.
• Enlistments: John Bragg (13855), Sydney Caddy (13841) and Thomas Ibison (13793).
• Bertram Elliott of Appleby attests and almost immediately deserts.
• Letter to Lt-Col. Machell: "We have decided to send our Contingent of men, between 50 & 60 to Carlisle, on Thursday, they leave here on the 1.25 train, arriving Carlisle about 3.14 p.m. and have informed Binning. We entertain them tomorrow evening at a Smoking Concert – a good send off."
• Letter of Major Binning to Carlisle Charity Organization Society: "I require two Charwomen to scrub out a large building here tomorrow into which we have to put men....if you would kindly provide all that is necessary in the way of Cloths, Brushes and Carbolic Soap."

1916 (Friday)

• Battalion situated in the Reserve line, supplying Royal Engineer parties.
• Brigadier-General Jardine, Commander of the 97th Brigade, visits the Lonsdales.

1917 (Saturday)

• Teteghem: Companies are at disposal of Company Commanders.
• Specialist training continues.
• Recreation takes place in the afternoon.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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