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*Garrard & Co, Crown Jewellers to [[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale|Lord Lonsdale]]: "We have this afternoon forwarded to [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]] 650 of the silver regimental badges, we have made to your esteemed instructions." <ref>{{lowther|recno=279}}</ref> |
*Garrard & Co, Crown Jewellers to [[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale|Lord Lonsdale]]: "We have this afternoon forwarded to [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]] 650 of the silver regimental badges, we have made to your esteemed instructions." <ref>{{lowther|recno=279}}</ref> |
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*Letter to [[William Walter Riddell Binning|Major Binning]] regarding the water Supply to [[Blackhall]]: "We....find that to deliver the quantity of water required, a larger Plant and Pipe will be required to meet your requirements. We propose to fix a 30 feet Tower....this will give you a daily average of 4500 gallons. The water from the Council’s main will be delivered into a 550 gallon Tank. |
*Letter to [[William Walter Riddell Binning|Major Binning]] regarding the water Supply to [[Blackhall]]: "We....find that to deliver the quantity of water required, a larger Plant and Pipe will be required to meet your requirements. We propose to fix a 30 feet Tower....this will give you a daily average of 4500 gallons. The water from the Council’s main will be delivered into a 550 gallon Tank." <ref>{{lowther|recno=53}}</ref> |
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*One transfer, one discharge and one enlistment.<ref name="lowther135">{{lowther|recno=135}}</ref><ref group="lower-alpha">J. Wheatman (13427) transfers from {{C Company}} to E Company.</ref><ref group="lower-alpha">T. Stewart (15429) of C Company is discharged.</ref><ref group="lower-alpha">William Forsyth (17520) enlists to E Company.</ref> |
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*Bus: Battalion supplying [[working parties]]. |
*Bus: Battalion supplying [[working parties]]. |
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*[[James William Gregg (14003)]] [[dies of wounds]] and [[Daniel Pearson (30141)]] dies from tetanus. |
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*Tournehem: Parading on 'B' Range and carrying out firing practices. |
*Tournehem: Parading on 'B' Range and carrying out firing practices. |
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Revision as of 15:32, 31 December 2022
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 16 January.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 16 January on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Saturday)
- Garrard & Co, Crown Jewellers to Lord Lonsdale: "We have this afternoon forwarded to Lt-Col. Machell 650 of the silver regimental badges, we have made to your esteemed instructions." [1]
- Letter to Major Binning regarding the water Supply to Blackhall: "We....find that to deliver the quantity of water required, a larger Plant and Pipe will be required to meet your requirements. We propose to fix a 30 feet Tower....this will give you a daily average of 4500 gallons. The water from the Council’s main will be delivered into a 550 gallon Tank." [2]
- One transfer, one discharge and one enlistment.[3][a][b][c]
1916 (Sunday)
- Bouzincourt: In rest billets.
1917 (Tuesday)
- Bus: Battalion supplying working parties.
- James William Gregg (14003) dies of wounds and Daniel Pearson (30141) dies from tetanus.
1918 (Wednesday)
- Tournehem: Parading on 'B' Range and carrying out firing practices.
Notes
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 (16 January), 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.