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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 16 November.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1914 (Monday)

• Recruiting Office sends 24 attestations to Camp.
• Enlistments: Thomas William Hetherington (17328 Pte.)
• Delivery of 80 second hand railway sleepers to Camp.
• Draft notice: "At the annual meeting of the Goodwin Male Voice Choir,....it was proposed and carried that Honorary Membership of the choir be offered to all men of the Lonsdale Battalion....who might wish to attend practices for singing....The National Anthems of the Allied Forces will be learnt."
• Nominal Roll of B Company.

1916 (Thursday)

• Englebelmer: Battalion involved with fitting out with bombs etc. for action.
• Deaths: Edward Glaister (27981 Pte.)

1917 (Friday)

• Battalion situated at 'Road Camp' involved in training.
• Corps Commander inspects the camp.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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