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*[[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]] to [[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale|Lord Lonsdale]]: {{quote-left}}Lonsdales beat the great “Bighill United F.C.” Whitehaven by 5 goals to 1 yesterday, in the new shirts. 41 recruits, grand fellows, came in last night....1109 all ranks – I have also probably up to 70....and weed out undesirables as much as possible....I am assured by the men that we could raise another Battalion if we wanted to, but the men won’t hear of anything but the Lonsdales. After....Parade today I told them that we had raised the Battalion with their cooperation and it was their cooperation we relied upon to enable us to run it. It occurs to me that you might like to let the W.O.<ref>War Office.</ref> know that obviously the way to get recruits is to send the men home on weekend pass and tell their friends the facts....The 4 London sergeants are grand they teach their men as much and more in an hour as others do in a week. Heavy snow today.{{quote-right}} <ref>{{lowther|recno=279}}</ref> |
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*Battalion situated at Black Horse Bridge; orders received to dump packs etc., then paraded in Battle order.<ref name="wdnov16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, November 1916]]</ref> |
*Battalion situated at Black Horse Bridge; orders received to dump packs etc., then paraded in Battle order.<ref name="wdnov16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, November 1916]]</ref> |
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Revision as of 16:57, 3 December 2016
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 15 November.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 15 November on The Great War wiki.
1914
- Lt-Col. Machell to Lord Lonsdale: “Lonsdales beat the great “Bighill United F.C.” Whitehaven by 5 goals to 1 yesterday, in the new shirts. 41 recruits, grand fellows, came in last night....1109 all ranks – I have also probably up to 70....and weed out undesirables as much as possible....I am assured by the men that we could raise another Battalion if we wanted to, but the men won’t hear of anything but the Lonsdales. After....Parade today I told them that we had raised the Battalion with their cooperation and it was their cooperation we relied upon to enable us to run it. It occurs to me that you might like to let the W.O.[1] know that obviously the way to get recruits is to send the men home on weekend pass and tell their friends the facts....The 4 London sergeants are grand they teach their men as much and more in an hour as others do in a week. Heavy snow today.” [2]
1916
1917
- Battalion situated at 'Road Camp' involved in training. The Divisional Commander inspects camp.[4]
References / notes
Material from Timeline/Chronology of the Lonsdale Battalion (September 1914 - May 1915) are sourced from the DLONS/L/13/13 Lowther Estate Archives. Entries from this timeline are reproduced here with kind permission of Jim Lowther and are not available under the license of this site. Please do not publish these extracts on other publicly visible media without prior permission from the copyright holder.
- ↑ War Office.
- ↑ Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/279
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 11th Battalion War Diary, November 1916
- ↑ 11th Battalion War Diary, November 1917