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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 21 July.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 21 July on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Wednesday)
- C. W. Fowke, from 9th Border Regiment (Pioneers), to be temporary Lieutenant, but with seniority from 2 November, 1914.[1]
1916 (Friday)
- Battalion marches to Allouagne via Parnes - Floringhem - Auchel and Lozinghem, taking over billets on arrival.
- The following newspaper articles are published by the Workington Star and Harrington Guardian:
- Deaths: Leonard Davies (17536 Pte.)
1917 (Saturday)
- Battalion remains in camp at Bray Dunes involved in training and recreation.
1918 (Sunday)
- Orders are received to move to the Abancourt - Ser Queux area.
- Thomas Murray (19707) dies of Pneumonia.
References
- ↑ Supplement to The London Gazette, 11th August 1915.
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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 (21 July), 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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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.