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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 20 October.
For events that took place elsewhere, see our sister project The Great War On This Day

1914 (Tuesday)

• 20 men are recruited at East Nelson Street and a further 7 men at Devonshire Street.
• Recruiting Office sent 12 attestations to Blackhall Camp.
• Thomas Robert Lamont (15416) enlists at Working and Joseph William Leck (15354) at Kendal.
• Letter from Carlisle United Football Club: "....to inform you that after Sat next....or any cup tie, permission have been given to admit any of Lonsdale army men in uniform or with Permit to Half Price to all Parts of the Ground."

1916 (Friday)

• Longuevillete: Battalion remain in billets during day involved with parade for general instruction, bombing and live grenade throwing.

1917 (Saturday)

• Battalion marches to Fort-des-Dunes and carries out practice attack.
• Specialists on training.
• Football competition during the afternoon.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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