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==1914== |
==1914 (Tuesday)== |
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*[[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]] to [[Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale|Lord Lonsdale]]: "....[[greatcoat]]s.... actually received 230...." <ref>{{lowther|recno=279}}</ref> |
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===Western Front=== |
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*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." <ref>{{lowther|recno=131}}</ref> |
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*[[Vermelles]], near Bethune, recovered by the French. |
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*Daily returns of rations are issued to 11 [[sergeant]]s and 239 men.<ref>{{lowther|recno=102}}</ref> |
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*[[King George]] visits Indian [[troops]]; confers G.C.B. on [[General Joffre]]. |
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===Eastern Front=== |
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==1915 (Wednesday)== |
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*Fierce fighting in the suburbs of [[Lodz]]. |
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*[[Battalion]] situated in [[billet]]s at Villers-Bocage. |
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===Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres=== |
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*Armenia: Russians capture Sarai and Bashkal. |
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==1916 (Friday)== |
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===Naval and Overseas Operations=== |
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*Newspaper articles ''[[Killed - Sgt. Arthur Hackett]]'' and ''[[Wounded - L/Cpl. R. Potts & Sgt. J.W. Oglethorpe]]'' are published.<ref>[[Workington Star and Harrington Guardian]]. Published 1 December, 1916.</ref> |
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*[[South Africa]]: Surrender of [[General de Wet]]. |
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*Battalion situated at Berteaucourt involved in training under [[company]] arrangements. Games etc. in the afternoon. |
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*Deaths: [[Arthur Carrigan (14926 Pte.)]] / [[Richard Potts (16303)]] |
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==1917 (Saturday)== |
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*Battalion situated at Wurst Farm, resting the majority of the day then. |
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*8.55pm: The men ready themselves prior to attack. |
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Latest revision as of 13:50, 9 December 2022
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 1 December.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 1 December on The Great War wiki.
1914 (Tuesday)
- Lt-Col. Machell to Lord Lonsdale: "....greatcoats.... actually received 230...." [1]
- 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." [2]
- Daily returns of rations are issued to 11 sergeants and 239 men.[3]
1915 (Wednesday)
1916 (Friday)
- Newspaper articles Killed - Sgt. Arthur Hackett and Wounded - L/Cpl. R. Potts & Sgt. J.W. Oglethorpe are published.[4]
- 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.