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

1914 (Friday)

• Three men are recruited at Wreay.
• 22 men are recruited at St. Nicholas and Recruiting Office, Carlisle.
• Thomas Spencer is recruited at Penrith.
• Telegram: "stop attestation form Joseph Young find he has just finished three months imprisonment....he will be prosecuted tomorrow."

1916 (Monday)

• Battalion leaves Labeuvrere at 7am in full marching order.
• Arrives Monchy Breton at 1pm and remains there over night.
• Deaths: Robert Bell (18276).

1917 (Tuesday)

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

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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