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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 17 September.
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1914 (Thursday)

• Approval of the Army Council is given (War Office letter No. 20/Gen. No./3162 (A.G.1) and an Executive Committee is formed.
• Earl of Lonsdale and the Executive Committee decide to raise the "Lonsdale Battalion" in three detachments: Carlisle, Kendal and Workington.
• Enlistments: Alfred James Chandler (15321 Pte.)

1916 (Sunday)

• In reserve line billets (Harley Street). Finds working parties for the front line trenches and Royal Engineers.

1917 (Monday)

• In the front line. Encounters a raid on C Company's lines about 3:30am with one other rank killed and one wounded.
• Heavy hostile bombardment on left sub-sector (St. Georges and Lombardzyde) during the afternoon.
• One enemy soldier, who is wounded during raid on C Company, is brought into the Lonsdale's lines.
• Deaths: Fred Clancey (28832 Pte.)

Notes

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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