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Moved Nicholson injury to 1915
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==1914 (Monday)==
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*Letter to [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]]: "Daily News Army and Navy Xmas Pudding Fund....at the request of [[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale|Lord Lonsdale]] we....forward 10 cases each containing ten 8lb tins and one containing five 8lb tins of Xmas Puddings....on the basis of half-a-pound of pudding per man, this consignment will provide for 1680 men in all." <ref>{{lowther|recno=62}}</ref>
==1915 (Tuesday)==
*Right half of Battalion returns to Bouzincourt from the [[trench]]es near [[Albert (Somme)|Albert]].<ref name="lons15">[[Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France]]</ref>
*Officers and [[NCO]]’s of left half of Battalion are attached for instruction in the trenches (garrison duty).<ref group="lower-alpha">In much the same vein as [[13 December]] where four platoons garrisoned the F1 sub-sector; four garrisoned the F2 sub-sector.</ref><ref group="lower-alpha">An additional remark attached to this event in the [[11th Battalion War Diary, November to December 1915|War Diary for December 1915]] states: "One [[other ranks|other rank]] wounded, and died." This could possibly be [[Thomas James Nicholson (15328)]], who was injured on the same day.</ref>
*[[Thomas James Nicholson (15328)]] is injured. He [[dies of wounds]] three days later on [[17 December]].
*[[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. P.W. Machell]]: "They are in very good form, and prepared to look smiling under all possible circumstances. I had a talk yesterday on the futility of grousing and the necessity of making the best instead of the worst of everything. Sandbags much wanted. I have been in the trenches a lot to-day, and see how useful a private supply would be. Difficulty in keeping the walls standing, owing to the quantity of water, and there is nothing like sandbags."
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