21 October: Difference between revisions

One man is recruited at Kirkbampton, three men at Orton and 22 men at Causewayhead.^[1]
Heights of recruits recorded. Chest measurement varied between 32” and 40”.^[2]

1916 (Saturday)

Battalion leaves Longuevillete at 8am in full marching order. Arrives Herissat 1.45pm.
Parade of bombers for live grenade throwing.

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 Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate.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

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-==1914==
+==1914 (Wednesday)==
+*One man is recruited at Kirkbampton, three men at Orton and 22 men at Causewayhead.<ref>{{lowther|recno=279}}</ref>
-===Western Front===
+*Heights of recruits recorded. Chest measurement varied between 32” and 40”.<ref>{{lowther|recno=12}}</ref>
-*The [[Yser (river)|Yser]]: Critical day: [[Dixmude]] heavily bombarded and assaulted.
-*[[Arras]] also heavily bombarded and attacked.
-*[[The Argonne]]: French recovery begins.
-===Eastern Front===
-*[[Poland]]: Germans begin retreat from [[Warsaw]]: Battle of [[Kasimiryev]]: Russki annihilates the Germans who had crossed the Vistula.
-===Political===
-*[[Russia]]: State sale of alcohol abolished.
-*[[Great Britain]]: Reply to manifesto of German professors published.
+==1916 (Saturday)==
-==References/notes==
+*[[Battalion]] leaves Longuevillete at 8am in full marching order. Arrives Herissat 1.45pm.
-{{Gleichen-123}}
+*Parade of [[bomber]]s for live [[grenade]] throwing.
-{{reflist}}
+==1917 (Sunday)==
+*Battalion situated at Teteghem. Church Parade at 10.30am.
+<br/>
+<!--{{notes}}-->{{refs}}{{acks}}
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