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==1915 (Monday)== |
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*Letter from [[Brigadier]] Collings to [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]]: {{quote-left}}I wrote to Sir. H. Mackinnon asking him if your Battalion could not be pushed on to musketry, & and he replies that he regrets very much he cannot get rifles for you to do so. |
*Letter from [[Brigadier]] Collings to [[Percy Wilfred Machell|Lt-Col. Machell]]: {{quote-left}}I wrote to Sir. H. Mackinnon asking him if your Battalion could not be pushed on to musketry, & and he replies that he regrets very much he cannot get rifles for you to do so.<ref>{{lowther|recno=120}}</ref> |
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*Hénencourt Wood: Situated in hut [[billet|billets]] preparing to move into reserve at 6pm. |
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*Camon: Battalion parades in full marching order. Marches to Weincourt. |
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*Situated in hut [[billet|billets]] in Hénencourt Wood, takes on duty of readiness to move into reserve at 6pm.<ref>[[11th Battalion War Diary, February 1916]]</ref> |
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*[[William Ernest Crayston (23989 Pte.)]] [[died of wounds|dies of wounds]], aged 29.<ref group="note">Crayston is buried at {{CWGC link|id=56500|name=Etaples Military Cemetery}} reference no. XXI.H.6A.</ref> |
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*[[Battalion]] situated at Camon; parades in full marching order and marches to Weincourt.<ref name="wdfeb17">[[11th Battalion War Diary, February 1917]]</ref> |
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*Deaths: [[William Ernest Crayston (23989 Pte.)]]<ref name="cwgc">{{CWGC+SDGW}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 15:45, 6 June 2020
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Lonsdale Battalion events that took place on 22 February.
For events that took place elsewhere, see 22 February on The Great War wiki.
1915 (Monday)
- Letter from Brigadier Collings to Lt-Col. Machell: “I wrote to Sir. H. Mackinnon asking him if your Battalion could not be pushed on to musketry, & and he replies that he regrets very much he cannot get rifles for you to do so.[1]
- Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant R. Stanley is appointed the commission of Captain.
1916 (Tuesday)
- Hénencourt Wood: Situated in hut billets preparing to move into reserve at 6pm.
1917 (Thursday)
- Camon: Battalion parades in full marching order. Marches to Weincourt.
- William Ernest Crayston (23989 Pte.) dies of wounds, aged 29.[note 1]
1918 (Friday)
- Woesten: Situated in camp near Woesten where companies are working under the Royal Engineers repairing pill boxes and machine gun defences. Specialist training as usual.
Notes
- ↑ Crayston is buried at Etaples Military Cemetery reference no. XXI.H.6A.
Acknowledgements
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 (22 February), 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.