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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 17 January.
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1916 (Monday)
- In rest billets at Bouzincourt.
- Simon Telford (17369) of Nichol Forest, Cumberland, dies of wounds.
1917 (Wednesday)
- Battalion is situated at Bus supplying working parties.
- Operation orders are received.
1918 (Thursday)
- Battalion is situated at Tournehem.
- All Officers and NCOs (less Company Sergeant Majors) parade for marking defensive positions. Special attention is paid to Outpost Line Defence.
- Companies are at the disposal of Company Sergeant Majors for training.
- Thomas Francis Hawkins (263074) dies of wounds.
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 (17 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.