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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

• 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.”

1915

• Battalion situated in billets at Villers-Bocage.

1916

• Newspaper article: Killed - Sgt. Arthur Hackett.
• Newspaper article: Wounded - L/Cpl. R. Potts & Sgt. J.W. Oglethorpe.
• Battalion situated at Berteaucourt involved in training under Company arrangements. Games etc. in the afternoon.

1917

• Battalion situated at Wurst Farm, resting the majority of the day then, at 8.55pm, readies itself prior to attack.

References / notes

Material from Timeline/Chronology of the Lonsdale Battalion (September 1914 - May 1915) are sourced from the DLONS/L/13/13 Lowther Estate Archives. Entries from this timeline are reproduced here with kind permission of Jim Lowther and are not available under the license of this site. Please do not publish these extracts on other publicly visible media without prior permission from the copyright holder.