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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 19 October.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1914 (Monday)

• First Battle of Ypres begins.
• 21 men are recruited at Caldewgate and a further 7 men at Devonshire Street.
• Thomas Campbell (13920) and Osborn Morgan Lewis (15264) enlist at Workington.
• Equipment at Blackhall Camp: 10 felling axes, 20 billhooks, 10 pickaxes, 10 shovels, 10 spades, 6 sledge hammers, 12 latrine screens, 10 brooms, 50 latrine buckets, 2 bundles latrine paper, 3200 yards of flannelette, 9 gallons of oil.
• Telegram from Lt-Col. Machell to Mr. Spedding at Lowther: "Tables for Mess and Hut urgently needed I know his Lordship wishes this to be got on with."

1916 (Thursday)

• Battalion leaves Longuevillete for Herissat in full marching order.
• Marches for two hours and returns to Longuevillete.

1917 (Friday)

• Teteghem: Companies carry out 6 mile route march in full marching order.
• Two hours Company training during the morning.
• 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 (19 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.