20 April
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 20 April.
1915[edit]
- “....there has been a great amount of overcrowding in the horse boxes used as billets in the....Camp. Please inform me if this has been remedied.” [1]
- “....if it had been intended continue occupation horse boxes I would have recommended building huts but these boxes will not be re-occupied when Battalion leaves. Expect order leaving Carlisle daily. Meanwhile average daily sick Company occupy boxes six out of strength 262 which is far better than that of any other company.” [2]
- Enlistments: Norman, Thomas (19492 Pte.)
1916[edit]
- Battalion in isolation camp at Contay Wood (measles) involved in training and small working parties.[3][4][5]
- A draft of 21 other ranks join the Battalion.[5]
1918[edit]
References / notes[edit]
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 Please do not publish these extracts on other publicly visible media without prior permission from the copyright holder.
- ↑ Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/58
- ↑ Record No. DLONS/L/13/13/58
- ↑ A group of soldiers (or prisoners) that are assigned to perform manual tasks or duties, for their own or other units.
- ↑ Training continues during the whole period of isolation.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 11th Battalion War Diary, April 1916
- ↑ Soldiers Died in the Great War (1921) cross referenced with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database.
