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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 19 January.
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1915 (Tuesday)
- Sergeant Percy Colt (13797) of B Company is reverted to the ranks.[1]
- Accidental death of Joseph Fairlamb (17464) near Brampton, Cumberland.[a] A funeral party of officers and other ranks takes place on 20 January.
1916 (Wednesday)
- In rest billets at Bouzincourt.
1917 (Friday)
- Mailly-Maillet: Situated in billets.
- One Officer per company goes into the trenches and remains in the line.
- The Commanding Officer and five other officers visit the line prior to relieving the 2nd Gordons.
- Deaths: Isaac Dugdale (20081).[b]
1918 (Saturday)
- All Companies on 'B' Range. Transport moves by road for Langemarck Area.
Notes
- ↑ Joseph Fairlamb (17464) dies in the UK. He is buried at St. Thomas of Canterbury Churchyard, Farlam, Cumbria.
- ↑ Isaac Dugdale (20081) dies in the UK. He is buried at Ambleside (St. Mary) Churchyard, Cumbria.
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 (19 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.