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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 1 December.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1914 (Tuesday)

• Lt-Col. Machell to Lord Lonsdale: "....greatcoats.... actually received 230...."
• Lord Lonsdale's reply: "....greatcoat difficulty was not fault of committee but fault of contract being made with company who became insolvent and could not obtain cloth to vary out contracts."
• Daily returns of rations are issued to 11 sergeants and 239 men.

1915 (Wednesday)

• Battalion situated in billets at Villers-Bocage.

1916 (Friday)

• Newspaper articles Killed - Sgt. Arthur Hackett and Wounded - L/Cpl. R. Potts & Sgt. J.W. Oglethorpe are published.
• Battalion situated at Berteaucourt involved in training under company arrangements. Games etc. in the afternoon.
• Deaths: Arthur Carrigan (14926 Pte.) / Richard Potts (16303)

1917 (Saturday)

• Battalion situated at Wurst Farm, resting the majority of the day then.
• 8.55pm: The men ready themselves prior to attack.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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