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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 15 September.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1914 (Tuesday)

• Telegram of Lord Lonsdale:

  “...meeting of Cumberland & Westmorland Territorial Force Association today....decided create special Lonsdale Battalion....men who had already enlisted in groups for this Unit have been suddenly called Depot Carlisle and merged with others. This has proved prejudicial to recruiting. Essential that Men now enlisted for this Lonsdale Battalion being of higher class than ordinary recruits should remain together until transferred....Recruiting will commence on receipt of reply.”

1916 (Friday)

• Battalion situated in the front line trenches (Cuinchy Sector). A quiet day.
• At 9:45pm a raid is carried out by a party of the Royal Scots Regiment.

1917 (Saturday)

• The Lonsdales are relieved by the 17th Highland Light Infantry in the Right Sub-sector (St. George's Sector).
• The first Company marches off at 8:00pm. Relief is quiet and completes at 11:30pm.
• Disposition of Battalion is as follows:-
  • C Company on the right, D Company on the left.
  • A Company in Support at 'White House' and B Company in reserve at Groote Labeur Farm.
  • Battalion HQ at Vache Greeve.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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