19 September

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

1914 (Saturday)

Estimate from Joseph Blain, general dealer of Blackfriars Street, Carlisle for the following necessaries items:
- 1000 hairbrushes at 12s per dozen, 1000 toothbrushes at 4s per dozen, 1000 dressing combs at 5s per dozen, 84 dozen knives and forks at 4s 9d per dozen, 1000 tablespoons at tablespoons at 6s 6d per dozen; delivery in about 7 days.^[1]
Memo from J. Fitzsimmons, hatter of Botchergate: “I have pleasure in quoting for 1000 Territorial Caps – Standard Army Pattern....making, trimming including badge – price 2s 9d each.” ^[1]

Battalion is situated in reserve line billets (Harley Street) find working parties for front line trenches and the Royal Engineers.
General Rycroft visits Battalion HQ at 4:45pm.

Battalion in the front line.
A solitary German solider comes from 'Alpha Post' towards 'C' Company Post.
2nd Lieut. Ridgway leaves 'C' Company Post to meet the German soldier. There is no result from these advances.
Operation Orders are received from Brigade.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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