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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 1 September.
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1914 (Tuesday)
- Command of the Lonsdale Battalion is given to P. W. Machell, C.M.G., of Crackenthorpe, with the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.[1] His commission and rank is gazetted on 15 October, 1914.[2]
1916 (Friday)
- Battalion is absorbed into the 75th Training Reserve Battalion of 17th Reserve Brigade.[3][4]
- Deaths: Thomas William Hogg (17463 Pte.)
1917 (Saturday)
- Ooste-Dunkerque: The village is shelled considerably with long distance high velocity guns during the night 31 August.
- Transport Lines are hit and 4 officers' chargers are killed.
References
- ↑ The Lonsdale Battalion Border Regiment, September 1914 to June 1915.
- ↑ Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) - In France
- ↑ 12 The Border Regiment Orders of Battle. Accessed 7 August 2016.
- ↑ The Border Regiment Chris Barker. The Long, Long Trail. Accessed 7 August 2016.
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 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.