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↑ The Lonsdales were in their final month before being disbanded. Where training is concerned, this was done alongside the American infantry. It was during this period that they moved to several different locations in the eventual run up to the disbandment papers being approved. On 29 July, 1918, the war diary states: “orders received for WO's, NCO's and men of the cadres to proceed to join the 1/5th Border Regiment (A.G. letter C.R. 5/9054/30 G.) and for battalion to be disbanded from date of departure.” The Lonsdale are disbanded two days later on 31 July.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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

[1] The Lonsdales were in their final month before being disbanded. Where training is concerned, this was done alongside the American infantry. It was during this period that they moved to several different locations in the eventual run up to the disbandment papers being approved. On 29 July, 1918, the war diary states: “orders received for WO's, NCO's and men of the cadres to proceed to join the 1/5th Border Regiment (A.G. letter C.R. 5/9054/30 G.) and for battalion to be disbanded from date of departure.” The Lonsdale are disbanded two days later on 31 July.

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-==1915==
+==1916 (Sunday)==
+*Battalion is withdrawn to Bouzincourt and {{gw|billet}}s in huts.
-*{{WF}} - German attack in [[Lorraine]] (forest of Parroy) and in sector of Fontenoy (west of [[Soissons]]).
+*March to Amplier via Acheux and Sarton and takes over huts.
-*{{EF}} - Between Vistula and Bug Germans attack Russians on the Wolitsa, and Russians repulse Archduke north of [[Krasnik]]. Russians defeat Austrians on east bank of Dniester and capture 2,000 prisoners.
-==1916==
+==1917 (Monday)==
+*Battalion leaves Coxyde at 5:30am and marches to Gyhvelde via La Panne and Adinkerke. Arrives 8:30am.
-*{{WF}} - British consolidate their positions; withdraw from Bois des Foureaux (High Wood); French make slight advance west of Fleury (Verdun).
-*{{EF}} - Sakharov drives Austrians back on to the Lipa, captures Mikhailovka, makes 13,000 prisoners.
-==1917==
+==1918 (Tuesday)==
+*Battalion training continues with 1st Battalion 130th Infantry Regiment (USA) at Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher.<ref group="lower-alpha">The [[Lonsdales]] were in their final month before being disbanded. Where training is concerned, this was done alongside the American infantry. It was during this period that they moved to several different locations in the eventual run up to the disbandment papers being approved. On [[29 July]], 1918, the [[11th Battalion War Diary, July 1918|war diary states]]: {{quote-left}}orders received for WO's, {{gw|NCO}}'s and men of the cadres to proceed to join the [[1/5th Border Regiment]] (A.G. letter C.R. 5/9054/30 G.) and for battalion to be disbanded from date of departure.{{quote-right}} The Lonsdale are disbanded two days later on [[31 July]].</ref>
-*{{WF}} - German counter-attacks repulsed at Moronvillers (Champagne).
-*{{EF}} - Russian withdrawal in [[Galicia]]; Kalusz evacuated.
-*{{NO}} - 6 German steamers intercepted off Dutch coast, 2 driven ashore, damaged by gunfire, 4 captured.
-*{{PO}} - Disorders in Petrograd engineered by Maximalists commence.
+{{notes}}<!--{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
-==1918==
-*{{WF}} - South of Dormans French and Americans counter-attack and take villages of St. Agneau and La Chapelle. Germans advance up Marne to Montvoison (seven miles from Epernay).
-*{{EF}} - Ex-Tsar Nicholas and family shot at Ekaterinburg, capital of Red Ural, by order of Ural Regional Council.
-*{{PO}} - Trial of M. Malvy, former French Minister of Interior, on charge of treason.
-==References/notes==
-{{Gleichen-123}}
-{{reflist}}
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