20 December: Difference between revisions

Puchevillers: Parades for Battalion drill under the Commanding Officer. Afternoon spent in Company training.
Some men on a sniping and Lewis gun course.

1917 (Thursday)

Battalion moves from Wurst Farm into the front line to relieve the 17th Highland Light Infantry; relief is quiet and completes at midnight.
Casualties: Four other ranks.

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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 (20 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.

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+==1916 (Wednesday)==
-==1915==
+*Puchevillers: Parades for Battalion drill under the Commanding Officer. Afternoon spent in [[Company]] training.
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+*Some men on a [[sniping]] and [[Lewis gun]] course.
-==1916==
+==1917 (Thursday)==
+*Battalion moves from Wurst Farm into the front line to relieve the 17th Highland Light Infantry; relief is quiet and completes at midnight.
-*Battalion situated at Puchevillers. Some men involved in sniping and Lewis Gun course; remainder parade for Battalion drill under Commanding Officer. Afternoon spent in Company training.<ref name="wddec16">[[11th Battalion War Diary, December 1916]]</ref>
+*Casualties: Four [[other ranks]].
+<br/>
-==1917==
+<!--{{notes}}{{refs}}-->{{acks}}
-*Battalion moves from 'Wurst Farm' into front line and relieves 17th Highland Light Infantry; relief is quiet and completes at 12 midnight. Casualties 4 other ranks.<ref name="wddec17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, December 1917]]</ref>
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