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

1916 (Wednesday)

• The Lonsdales relieve the 17th Highland Light Infantry in front line trenches; relief commences at 3:00pm and completes at 4:45pm.
• The Germans bombard the Lonsdales lines from 6:45pm to 7:15pm causing some damage to trenches.

1917 (Thursday)

• Battalion situated in the line.
• A British aeroplane crashes at 'Kettlerdam Bridge'; the pilot is rescued.
• The Lonsdales are relieved by 15th Highland Light Infantry and move into billets at Coxyde.
• Deaths: William Jameson (33497 Pte.)

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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