15 October

Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 15 October.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 15 October on The Great War wiki.

1914 (Thursday)

Six men are recruited at Thursby.^[1]
Enlistments: James Culley (13874 L/Cpl.).
C Company^[a] and D Company^[b] join the rest of the Battalion at Blackhall Racecourse, Carlisle.
Percy Wilfred Machell is gazetted the temporary rank of Lieutenant Colonel, to date from 1 September 1914.^[2]
Letter from Major Binning: "Robert Rutherford whose Attestation papers I enclose has made a false attestation. He is an Indentured Apprentice and his employer will not let him go. I therefore recommend....that he be discharged." ^[3]

Battalion leaves Bethune in full marching order. Arrives Labeuvrere and take billets there.
Battalion parade in afternoon under Commanding Officer.

Teteghem: Throughout the morning A, B and D Company at the disposal of Company Commanders for physical drill and musketry training.
C Company goes on a 6 mile route march.
Recreation takes place in the afternoon.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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